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Damian Stafford’s miscellany

   Jul 18

Poteeweet?

The “word” poteeweet—usually printed as po-tee-weet or poo-tee-weet—is the last word, “spoken” by a bird, of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse 5. The novel follows it’s hero, Billy Pilgrim, through time and space, from his home town of Ilium, NYC, to his being exhibited in a zoo on the planet of Tralfamadore, to the battlefields [...]

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   Jul 04

Modern life is rubbish

Mel, me and thousands of others had a splendid time in Hyde Park watching and listening as Blur treated us to a long set, which differed not at all it seemed from their Glastonbury set, of some lovely songs from yesteryear. Seemingly to enhance their enjoyment lots of people threw empty or nearly-empty plastic beer [...]

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