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Jerusalem Offertory: Nor Shall his Pork Sword Sleep in his Hand

Monday, February 15, 2010

Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! November 13th – shuffled sheepishly through Israeli immigration, enduring a 30-second staring down by an oddly Aryan young woman in army fatigues. Last time an attractive girl looked at [...]

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Filed in disciple updates, journeys | Also tagged Alex Tehrani, Arabs, Christians, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Dean Kaufman, Debra Winger, Doctor Who, General Gordon of Khartoum, Genitals, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, John Lydon, Micheal McLaughlin, Noah Sheldon, Nuns, Paul Bowles, Perkin Lovely, Sarah Wilmer, Sausages, Tim Morris, Via Dolorosa. Austria | Comments (6)

Love Again: Wanking at Ten Past Three – The Lovely Rambles

Monday, August 24, 2009

(cont’d from ‘Unsheathed, Perkin Lovely was a Ronnie Corbett Sausage’) ‘More likely they are his-and-hers avalanches of mouldering dumpling mix, with dentures from Minsk, matching unisex carrier-bag breasts and stained, swampy genitals. They’ll greet you at the front door of a tract house in Teaneck wearing each other’s underwear, their rabbi in the background humping [...]

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Filed in disciple updates, revolting self-promotion | Also tagged Bay City Rollers, Boarding School, Cologne, Convents, Diseases of the Skin, Genitals, Girlfriends, Helena Bonham-Carter, Katy Grannan, Korea, Opera, Palazzo Pants, Perkin Lovely, Poetry, Pornography, Prison, Ronnie Corbett, Sian Kennedy, Swingers, Terre Haute | Comments (8)

Noah Sheldon and the View from Lickham Bottom

Saturday, April 11, 2009

The British are, in their own words, queer buggers. It all begins on the Virgin Atlantic Airbus with the ding-dong doorbell voice of somebody calling herself the Cabin Service Manager interrupting your search for the item on the in-flight entertainment menu most likely to make your neighbour shift uncomfortably in her seat (way-past-her-prime Meg Ryan [...]

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Filed in Poetry, disciple updates, gain, journeys | Also tagged Blind Spot, Blur, Britain, Eurovision Song Contest, Genitals, Istanbul, Janet Reno, Jenna Jameson, Ken Loach, Meg Ryan, mollie sugden, Noah Sheldon, Perkin Lovely, Poetry, Rocket Salad, Rupert Brooke, Spotted Dick, Tim Morris, Virgin Atlantic | Comments (5)