Inestimable Foot Eater
Well, I was going to muddle together a post of some sort today, but thought I’d catch up on my favourite blogs first and maybe sprinkle some comments around to get back into the posting way. Now, after reading the fabulous “The Fishwhacker Swindle?” I realised there is nothing better I can do than direct any passers-by to go right there post-haste.
Mr Foot Eater has written a brilliant short story in 3 parts (scroll down for part 1). The Best way I can describe it is John Le Carre meets Stephen King at a conference on European medieval fairy tales somewhere in the Czech Republic and they have a chat about The Green Knight , with Messrs. Dire Warning and Nabokov glowering in the corner. It is illuminating and sinister but care must be taken: it should be read in a bright room with cheerful wallpaper and no gloomy corners or potted plants (see story) to prevent you from brooding too much on its darkness. Of the two mistics, I can’t decide whether the conclusion is opti or pessi. Anyway – it’s good.
Now, though, I have no time to think up a post of my own and I haven’t had a chance to check out my other favourite sites either. Damn you Foot Eater!
Shoosh! Wheecht! Away with you now to Footie’s. He’s some darn good readin’.
Later: Forgot to include a link to Mr. Eater’s. Here he is: http://fishwhackerswindle.blogspot.com/
June 5th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Hi Sam
Nice to have you back. You have a good time?
Joe
June 5th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Where have you been? I thought you were back ages ago. Or have you been away twice? Don’t mind me – I’m just naturally nosy. Will repair to foot-eater.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Hurrah, the pcb is back.
How were the Isles of beyond the Frozen North ?
June 6th, 2006 at 10:15 am
I was thinking about you yesterday as the BBC aitred a whiney report about how unhappy some people living on a Hebridean island were with the advent of Sunday auto-ferry service.
How do YOU feel about the ferry?
Glad you’re finally back.
June 6th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Glad to see that you’re back – you’ve been sorely missed…Not to mention, I was starting to suffer from PCB withdrawal… I think the shaking and projectile vomiting has started to subside now…
June 6th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
The Woodborn had me transfixed.
Book mad?
May I make so bold as to point you in the direction of our own lit critter, Jayne Austin-Allegro?
She knows her onions.
LdP
June 6th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Waiting for vacation stories. Welcome back.
June 7th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Good to have you back Sam. Have you had lots of adventures?
June 7th, 2006 at 7:47 am
Hello! Thank you for stopping by people!
Doccy MacC. Pat, Luke – the holidays were lovely, sweet people, if a little rheumatic – the bitter, biting, brutal, buggering cold, you see. My husband calls the Hebridonean location “sub arctic” although I myself prefer supra-arctic. He’s from Minnesota. He knows nothing.
SafeT – I have no feelings on the matter. If I did they would be along the lines of the Sabbath being made for man and not for the whimsical ministry. We put identifiable dog-collars on these people for a reason, I’m sure, and the lesson, in the same way as the bright, alarmist colours nature paints an unpalatable frog, seems to be “steer well clear”.
Claire, heyho hon’! Projectile vomitting is all part of the service here at PCB! Other inferior sites will only offer metaphorical vomitting , but here you get the real deal – just don’t short out your keyboard.
Lucien – welcome! Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to say hi. Please, make as bold as you like. I’ve had a snooplet round your way and it rocks. Your onions are clearly known. I will be back to visit you.
Randall and Emma – thank-you. Stories will be forthcoming and if you like the kind of adventure where a ne’er-do-well Hebridonian lass meets old friends, drinks a bit, is attacked by fifty nano-foot midges and then falls happily and gratefully over – then you’ve come to the right adventurer. And me a mammy too. Stories will follow, but this is a Tuesday and ergo a quiz night at the pub and, now home, I need a stiff drink of H2O and some horizontality right at the minute. Thanks for visiting, guys.
June 7th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Welcome back, Sam, and thanks for the kind words – your appreciation is worth a thousand rejection slips. One of these days Blogger will let me upload the picture for the third instalment.
June 8th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Sam: Dog collars?
Foot:She’s right, though. Damn good story.
June 9th, 2006 at 12:04 am
Foot Eater, I’ve got a touch of Blogger rage myself. I’ve been trying to comment on Safe T’s site for ages but success has been more elusive than a disguised nun at “The Da Vinci Code”. Finally they deigned to tell me they were down for maintenance. Well, what would happen if we ALL went down for maintenance whenever we felt like it, eh? Eh? (There’s a rude joke in there somewhere that I feel more than confident you can extract for yourself.)
And you too Safe T.
June 11th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Blogger is apparently present and erect now, Sam, yet can I post or even modify my previous entries (not to mention add pictures)? Can I fug.
Not sure about your simile there. I imagine there are lots of nuns who’ve watched that film incognito.
June 11th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Oh, hang on, I see what you meant. There might be lots of them but they’re elusive, in that you can’t identify them.
No, but then they’re not like your success in posting comments on SafeT’s site, which doesn’t exist. So this second qualifying post is erroneous.
I’m sorry, I’ve had a bit too much today. Sun, that is.