michael lambe

I went for a walk in the rain yesterday (safely sheltered under my 80 cm wide monster-brolly) and came across this sign (left) by the canal. It amused me so I took a picture of it for you. It seems to be a depiction of the great celestial dog-turd in the sky. An inspiration for all pooches everywhere to boldly do their doo-doo whereever they do do doo-doo.

Anyway, the last week or so has been fairly relaxed because it’s time for the mid-term tests, so not much teaching. I had a nice chat with Rik Abel the other night and he told me to sign up for this National Blog Posting Month thingy but I got completely the wrong end of the stick (apparently I am “quite retarded”) and accidentally signed up for this instead…..

And then I thought, “Well, why not give it a go?” Now in order to finish a decent sized novel (first draft) in 30 days I have to write at least 4,000 words a day. Research is obviously out of the question so it has to be something very pull-out-of-arseable indeed. Anne Kobayashi writes: “i think the blog is great. you should just write a whole book about yourself”. I thought about that, but then if I did, it would be either a) very boring or b) it would be too interesting and get me into a lot of trouble. I went on a book buying splurge the other day and invested in a couple of Neil Gaiman books “Neverwhere” and “Smoke and Mirrors” and “The Years Best Fantasy and Horror” so that’s probably the sort of direction I’m going to go in… Just trying to psyche myself up for the big push now. Anyway, if you want me for anything during the month of November, forget it. I’m busy.

MUSIC!
Now for the longest time I was thinking that this cover of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” was by Ben Harper. “Fair play too ya, Ben,” I thought. But it’s not. It’s Jeffrey Gaines. Who the heck is Jeffrey Gaines? I don’t know but he’s quite good. As Hyon Ju nicely points out his hair makes him look like the Incredible Hulk (which only makes me like him more).