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Saturday 12th January 2008 1:12 AM
Steve wants to know if this blog is called 'my life as A artist' or 'my life as AN artist'. It's the former Steve, rather in the spirit of Ernie Wise's 'the play what I wrote'. Unfortunately, on the page, it loses something, and I agree that it looks more like a typographical error than drollery. I'm probably much better live.
Jonno e-mailed me to wonder at the lack of comments on the pope blogs. Was it that nobody was reading it, or were people scared of the pope and God, or was the comment box not working?
I now know that Steve, Hooth and Jonno himself have read them, so it's not that. As regards people being scared of the pope and God, that's a trickier question. Personally, I'm not scared of either of them. God is an unspeakable mystery, who for poetic and practical reasons of spiritual nourishment, I have come to regard as a loving father/mother/sister/brother/second cousin/nice lady that you meet in the co-op figure, and towards whom feelings of fear would be completely inappropriate. As regards the pope, I'm not scared of him either, because I'm six foot two and go to the gym regularly, whereas he's five foot six and, as someone who's held on grimly for decades to a rigid, life-denying orthodoxy, almost certainly arthritic.
If however, life should be a bizarre cosmic joke, and existence nothing more than Noel Edmonds, and it turns out that the catholic church is telling the truth, and Ratty really is God's sole representative on earth, then not only would I be scared of Ratty, I'd be really, really scared of God as well.
I don't know if Tony Blair ever reads this blog, but seeing as he joined the catholic church a few weeks ago, he's clearly not scared of the pope, and, seeing as he then subsequently joins the board of an investment bank two weeks later, he's obviously not scared of God either.
On reflection Jonno, (and lets face it, we need some of that in this topsy-turvey, helter-skelter, bibbidi-bobbedy-boo, 'I'm completely bonkers', world of ours) I'd say there were no comments because the comment box wasn't working. The fact that Steve and Hooth have both commented today means that Kate and Sidney Pi must have fixed it, as indeed they said they would. Kate reckoned it probably just needed its nipples greasing.
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I'm trying to follow my calling as an internet heckler, but most of the time the bloody comments thingy won't let me!
Posted by Steve , on Tuesday 15th January 2008, 7:16 PM
I'm glad Steve is still out there somewhere - haven't heard from him for a while - and that he raised the question of your dodgy grammar...a little light relief from theological questions
Posted by Hippy in the Horn , on Tuesday 15th January 2008, 10:58 AM
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