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Watch a good movie on your birthday, Kinuta!

Hairy McLary from Donaldson's Dairy Old MacDonald Art Farmer

As far as I remember - and 1951 is a long way away - the good people were a civilisation that lived in the southern hemisphere of the planet. I think a ring of fire separated them from the north where the Nazi-style Treens lived. Recalling this 60 years later shows I lapped it up, too! P.S. The goodies were the Therons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therons

Johnny B. Goode Benny Goodman Man Ray Johnny Ray Willie the Weeper Barry Cryer

Ben Johnson Amy Johnson Dr Johnson Eve Boswell Adam Faith Vanessa Paradis

If I weren't 180 miles north of London, I'd meet up with you. Read a newspaper review of Ayers' Scott's gig today. There's only one jazz record store left in London AFAIK: it's Ray's Jazz which is located inside Foyle's bookstore on Charing Cross Road (nearest tube station Leicester Square). Quite a big stock, but everything can be bought cheaper online!

I find that Garcia-Marquez screams that with every literary breath he takes. It's an attitude that turns me off to a number of very different authors, but who have this flaw in common: Thomas Mann, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow (maybe the most overrated American novelist?), Milan Kundera, and others. Nabokov has enough humor and verbal brilliance to counteract this tendency. I'm with you on most of those authors, but personally, I think Bellow had some verbal brilliance at times (at other times he could be a bit annoying and pretentious.) I think Augie March is quite good, and I also enjoyed The Dean's December. My problem with Bellow is that he truly seemed to be writing the same story over and over (conniving family members, particularly the uncles), the narrator is almost always a not-very-settled family man with a roving eye or a man in the midst/recovering from a painful divorce. Women always seem to be the root of the problem in a Bellow novel. I don't always care for where Philip Roth goes in his writing, but I think he ended up expanding well beyond his original template or imaginative world. I used to be very keen on Bellow in the 60s, when I was in my twenties and he was the latest thing, but I could never get into the ones after Herzog. In later years the only ones I've gone back to and re-read have been the earliest: Dangling Man and The Victim.

Used to be a staple in classical LP covers. Pastoral Symphony, etc, etc ...

Joseph Stones Roxy Music Ed Balls Ed Norton Brad Pitt Pitt the Younger Old King Cole Merry Old Soul Victor Feldman

As far as I remember - and 1951 is a long way away - the good people were a civilisation that lived in the southern hemisphere of the planet. I think a ring of fire separated them from the north where the Nazi-style Treens lived. Recalling this 60 years later shows I lapped it up, too!

Well, there certainly is a likeness! Decidedly; I think it was Private Eye that noticed it first and dubbbed him 'The Mekon' and their cartoonists made great caricatures. MG Didn't The Mekon turn out to be a goodie, in the end? Where are the Dan Dare experts? MG Can't imagine him as a goodie. Wikipedia suggests he came to a nasty end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekon

Well, there certainly is a likeness!

Joseph Stones Roxy Music Ed Balls

The Mekon!

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Simone Martini Ginny Clee Paul Klee

Cat Anderson Pussy Riot Vladimir Putin

Des O'Connor Hazel O'Connor Sinead O'Connor Cardinal Sin Odean Pope Pops

Desperate Dan Cow Cow Davenport Bix Beiderbecke

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