michael lambe

So one of my friends has become a manwhore (although he likes to call himself a “gigolo” in the erroneous belief this makes it sound cool). My friend swore me to secrecy, so let’s refer to him as “Pierrot” to preserve his good name in society (he’s a bit of a clown see). “Where do you meet these poor women?” I asked him. “In bars.” says Pierrot “Divorced women between the ages of 35 and 40 with good jobs. I’m providing a service to the community…”

Ironically (ironically?), Pierrot is also looking to start a whole new career as a part-time priest doing weddings on weekends. The Japanese really like the whole white dress, church organ, traipsing up the aisle, romantic atmos of your western-style wedding but they don’t really give two hoots for religion of any sort (generally) so there’s this huge market for western-style weddings but not enough actual priests. For this reason some enterprising (if not entirely honest) types have started to cash in on this by dressing any old white guy in some vestments and calling him a priest. You can get ￥15,000 per wedding apparently (as compared with the ￥10,000 Pierrot receives for his other - ahem! - services).

What some people will do to avoid working for a living…

Well, that’s enough filth and hypocrisy for one day. Why not click over to Rik Abel’s blog where he is starting a whole new blogging “uberniche”. What you do is you ask him to film himself rollerblading around a particular location in London or Cambridge and then he goes and does just that and puts the video on his blog! What could be marvellouser?!