Monkeys Fist

No, but his Dobly soundbar and LG tv were in the back yard with the Garden Sofa. He’s probably melted in to the mattress by now.

He did actually manage to Gold Medal the mission a few days later. He was a very charming psychopath from Brum, the following year he ended up running a sex shop in Amsterdam. The tradition out there was to rechristen people with a nickname, there’s folks I knew for 2-3 years without actually knowing their real names. I don’t think Stavros was too pleased with hers, like, but traditions are traditions.

These puns are giving me a mYgraine. I’m Gawain for lie down on my Bed(evere).

One year when I was working abroad, a new kitchen assistant turned up midway through the season, and one of the lads won the “Welcome to France Scuttle” honours. They went off to his tent to do the deed, and within 5 minutes we hear “ Bastard!!! Fuck off, go on get out!!” Lad comes back, grinning like a Cheshire Cat. We ask wtf? ” Ah got her strides off, took one look and asked if it came with garlic or chilli sauce!” Poor lass

What’s going on with Kate’s minge though?

“ What we gonna call the next Statham turdfest?” ” Dunno, the Beekeeper?” ” I LOVE IT. What’s the story?” ” Someone… kills his bees?” ” Roll ‘em!”

Bah! Tomayto tomato

I worked at an Italian restaurant run by two Sicilian lads, Mario and Franco, who were straight out of central casting for stereotypical Italian men. Mario was smoother than a babby’s arse and went through the waitresses like Covid in a care home. Franco looked like a 6ft enforcer who’d been sledgehammered down to 5’6”, barely spoke English but was fucking hilarious- his entire vocabulary was Italian swearing, accompanied, unironically, with the gesture. His favourite was “vafanculo” but he’d add “stringi dente” which I gather meant “stiff teeth”. I watched Italy go out on pelanties to France in 98 with him, and the whole shoot out was just a string of Italian obscenities, until Di Biagio’s miss when he just went fucking radge.

Wouldn’t take much dressing, tbh.

Burnside learned his trade from the travelling wearside bluesman, Peytar “Six Fingers” Hilton. Six Fingers also taught Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, who all went on to be huge MLFs.

Aye, he was a big influence on the early Black Keys. speaking of which, this cover of theirs of a Junior Kimbrough track is an all time favourite of mine.

Not a fan tbh. On a scale of 1-10 I’d give him 00/7.

Did he refuse you an autograph?

So, I’m pretty partial to dirty roadhouse blues type bands, particularly two piece affairs that just do what they do fantastically. I’m 100% sure I’ve already mentioned two of my favourite exponents of this filth-ridden branch of blues- Left Lane Cruiser and Black Diamond Heavies. I was ridiculously pleased to find a Left Lane Cruiser track where they have the creative force of Black Diamond Heavies, James Leg, on backing keyboards. Here it is, nowt particularly ground-breaking or new, but by fuck they do what they do really well. For reference, this is James Leg’s band Black Diamond Heavies, doing my favourite track of theirs.

Barry John, Legendary West English Egg Chaser, deed at 79.

Mine isn’t. Details please

Watched Oppenheimer last night with Mrs. F. Absolutely superb movie tbh, Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer was just fantastic- Emily Blunt was also excellent as his Mrs, Kitty. The scene where they finally do the test firing, given that they’re not 100% sure it won’t trigger an uncontrollable reaction which will set the global atmosphere alight, is absolutely gripping, even though you know the outcome. It’s a 3hr movie, with no big action scenes, only a smidgen of tiddies, and yet it seemed to fly by. By comparison, Killers of the Flower Moon was a similar length -great movie, but felt like it could’ve been done and dusted in half the time. If Murphy doesn’t get the Best Actor Oscar for this I’ll be surprised, he’s mesmeric every second he’s on screen.

It’s the same kid in both photos man.

Chapter 1 “ Arrived, met a local, left 10 minutes later” Chapter 2 See above.

I think we can all agree that if we wanted to see this, we’d have done it by now- spoilers be damned, name this other movie