Letter on Thatcherspeak

Twenty-five years ago the present writer was scribblin' letters, articles, cartoons for British (stalin lite) communist weekly  
7 Days // picture from the past March 25 1988.

Sean Bonney's letters on harmony sounded -
https://soundcloud.com/sean-bonney/letters-on-harmony

Margaret Thatcher is all around us

Margaret Roberts and a film star

Photograph taken at Dartford Conservative fête 1951.  (from Bromley Times 26/1/12 reviewing The Iron Lady movie)

  

Meryl Streep

'political verse' extract - Songs Our Teachers Learn Us, 
or, Lessons To Be Taught (Michael John Weller's HomeBaked Books PDF, 2013) slight return...

James Savile & David Bowie is all around us

International making of a David Bowie cultural industry, situated as 1970s showcase UK for V&A exhibition 2013 -  a necessary bourgeois spectacle since decade's pop-culture totally dissed by sexual scandal after spectacular London 2012. Talk about making and unmaking of a celebratory text!

All credit to local Brixton, Bromley & Beckenham boy made good, giving 2012 gig a miss. And maybe London 2013 gig too...who said it's not where you're from but where you're going that counts..?

'cover' songs our teachers learn us on youtube

First post-firebombing Freedom Bookshop benefit gig - London Action Resource Centre, Saturday 23rd February - poetry not read. Didn't recognize attendees as poets. Didn't recognize Mike Weller.

Four great singer/songwriters/musicians playing like poets though - Torben Tietz; Moa Bergström;  Marzella. Younger generation promoting themselves through social media -

MySpace (still there for musos...), ReverbNation and Bandcamp. Benefit largely facebook organized (heard about Freedom Press fire through Sean Bonney UK Poetry space).

Tietz learned some technique from YouTube vids John Butler. Torben performed cover Mumfords' Little Lion Man. Bergström sang cover Katy Perry Teenage Dream to make "bad pop song good" (great wind-noise recording of 'cover' here) and duo Marzella sang cover Weezer Island in the Sun. Own song YouTube promo vid here.

Performers write and compose own material (Tietz vid here) - 'covers' simply perky little bonuses of appropriation.

In poetic cover spirit - "Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Masque Of Anarchy covered as a zine".

After HomeBaked printing costs first print run proceed go Freedom Press.

 

come into my world

from "Come into my World" - (Site Under Construction)

"The Superheroes of Kreiden"

Croydon Reporter, February 17 2010

"The Superheroes of Kreiden" is a comic strip serial printed in the space between "readers' comments" and "puzzle corner".
   Croydon Reporter has one-hundred and twelve pages. Over seventy of these pages are advertisements. Many are coloured images of automobiles and residential properties mixed with local telephone numbers in large black and white fonts.Thirty or so pages are feature articles and half of these are listings or event promotions.
   Cap Stelling was an artist. But "The Superheroes of Kreiden" didn't look like art in the Croydon Reporter. Perhaps he could turn it into a 'web' comic younger cartoonists spoke of.

from "Cap Stelling's 'The Superheroes of Kreiden"' - (Site Under Construction)

The Superheroes of Croydon

A third page opens. The Superheroes of Croydon here are three petty-bourgeois, white, male poets, in their sixties, who grew up in South London suburban boroughs.

 from "Warped Sci-Fi Pieces" - (Site Under Construction) 

 

bouquet of biro - lo resoviral

and more time

Songs Our Teachers Learn Us on youtube

First taught 28 years ago when these Distraction Club performers may have been little more than a twinkle.

Wordsworth's pastoral post_code

After attending Eton College ... (Wikipedia entry for Sir John Gurdon)

light entertainment industry

 

'...People muthed be amuthed, Thquire, thomehow', continued Sleary...
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)

Note: Blank grey scale pixelated slides appearing above replace images of "JIM'LL FIX IT" badges published in original post. The present blogger did not authorize their current removal or substitution. Whether for technical, copyright or censorial reasons this has occurred at Google blogspot, this post and later related post are now rendered partially meaningless (23/7/13)


    

invitation to design homebaked technical poetry baccalaureate

Dear Sir/Madam
Sorry for taking your time. Please let me introduce my business. Our company is professional in metal deep processing, with stamping, punching for many many machine parts, buildings, and furniture, bathroom and kitchen hardware, and also make ramps and racks for BBQ grill and shop shelf. We are a big plant, competitive price in the industry. Meanwhile we always produce under customer's design. Please send you design if you have interesting in working together with us.
Thanks a lot.
Ms Chang
Ningbo Tede Metal Products Co., Ltd.

Poets for Pussy Riot (London)

Occasionally, I think of two different rhymes, a good one and a bad one, and I always choose the bad one because it is always the right one.
Alexander Vvedensky 

slippng down ReverbNation charts

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Egnep Asbestos Cobbing Vintage image from a 1918 publication depicting primitive asbestos mining site conditions at an early development of an asbestos mine in South Africa. Photo caption indicates:
" Cobbing operations, Westerberg Mine, Cape Asbestos Co.."

After Pugh's three-year prison sentence for a failed high street nail - Weller drew Pugh into prison. Wrote him as inmate 136804 HMP Brixton.

A Voice Inside (Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).

Last blog entry February 2012; tables have turned in Weller's Space Opera tale. Pugh draws the writer-in-residence into prison. Writes him as Portland jail inmate.

Mike Weller Poetry Feller, Posie Rider (Mossad Press*) (out of print)

Is Posie's title built around "A Minimus Postcode Poem" first read at Writers Forum (New Series) workshop and dedicated to Doug Jones?

If so, time it saw reprint. Has lines beginning and ending ---

"and the little electronic coloured lights go ▪▪▪▪
Phone Cards ▪▪▪▪ Mobile Phone & Accessories ▪▪▪▪
Repairs & Unlocking ▪▪▪▪ "

The poet's myEBook version has some of those so-crap-as-to-be-almost-pointless blurry cell-phone low rez YouTube images Weller pretentiously calls "videographs" just like this one here ---



*Mossad Press is an imprint of Sad Press Books

Margaret Roberts and a film star



Photograph taken at Dartford Conservative fête 1951.
(from Bromley Times 26/1/12 reviewing The Iron Lady movie)