mars 23, 2006

SAP LAND

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On a foggy day, if you stand on the salmon-pink esplanade outside Sap Land and lean on the cold sweat of the iron railings, you can’t see owt. It’s the edge of the world. It’s as though you wished everything away but the esplanade, and Sap Land, and a handful of gulls tossing low in the sky, and this chunk of world is encased in dense, wet cotton wool. Behind you, all the shutters are down and Laughing Sal droops in a stupor. To your left, the Big Wheel is a smudge of clockwork fading behind Fry King, and litter skitters against the warpaint of the arcade. To your right, coin-operated binoculars with their heads scouting skew-wiff. Before you: nothing, as though that bit hasn’t been drawn yet. It’s not easy to draw the sea! You can hear a roar, but maybe that’s the blood rushing in God’s ears.

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mars 14, 2006

Rogan's Run

It's my 30th birthday party on April 1st. I'll be celebrating in Cambridge, within crawling distance of my house.

* Live Music
* Tombola
* Petting Zoo
* Pork Scratchings
* Bouncy Castle
* Itchy, flaky scalp
* Pub quiz
* Al Jolson makeover
* A drink of beer
* The Fabulous Nicorettes, featuring "Gypsy"
* Sheep dip
* Surprise reunion with estranged relative (book yours now)

There's no spare beds left at Rockets HQ, but you can get a single posh kip around here for £25. I've already had some very pleasing RSVPs: let yours be the next. Email me or post below with expressions of interest, surprise, milk &c. Just come as you are, fool.

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