Mr Michael 21 September 2008
What is it with George and the public loos? He loves ‘em, it seems, in spite of the fact that they’ve not been good to him. I can’t imagine the poor man is so deluded he thinks he can be anonymous anywhere anymore and, to be honest, my heart does go out to him on that score. From what I hear he’s a lovely chap and I happen to know that his family are lovely as my brother and sister in law sat with them and chatted when he played Dublin last year (I was away working and SICKENED not to be at the gig because I think he is an amazing performer and totally talented singer). My friend Miche is most amusing in his observation a la Oscar Wilde that ‘to be arrested in one public toilet may be considered a misfortune…’ You can all fill in the rest.
The banks aren’t the only things going bust – the Hadron Collider is banged up, in all the wrong ways, too. Suppose it means we can relax about the black hole the scientists are hoping to replicate…or whatever it is they’re up to. I met the lovely Brian Cox (poster boy extraordinaire for physics and also a top physics type) when Cillian Murphy starred in the movie SUNSHINE and he invited me to go see what they were up to then and this was even before the new super collider was finished – I think I should take him up on that sometime and maybe I will understand enough to pass on some top misinformation and start a few juicy rumours – whoever knew science could be such a blast?…if that’s the right way to put it…
Off to Warwick in the morning to talk to some Independent Booksellers. Looking forward to meeting them, though the idea of saying amusing/interesting things for 20 minutes is terrifying. I have never had less than a good time hanging about with booksellers. They are a wonderful breed and totally up against it, even when times aren’t as tough as they are now. I think I’ll ask everyone for books as gifts this Christmas (or bookshop vouchers for the sales in the New Year) – to me that is a total win-win situation.
