July 14th, 2007

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

WHO’S HE CALLING FLUFFY? (post 8)

1. Back In A Bit: Coming Out

I like to think that, by the time my own terribly liberal generation is old enough to have children of the “finding one’s sexuality” age, we’ll be so chilled-out, unfazed and approachable about it that it won’t even register as a milestone.

2. A Beautiful Revolution: Beyond Mathematics

It’s written in the snow. Hidden in the stars. And wrapped in paper on Christmas Eve…

3. Charlie’s Diary: Unpacking The Zeitgeist

There exists a vast, global data network for exchanging information between computers. It’s called the internet.

4. Edvard Moonke: Wimbledon, Rain and Other Distractions

It’s the change-over break, and the camera hovers, then settles on a shot of Virginia Wade in the crowd prodding a top molar with her little finger then eating whatever she managed to dig out.

5. An Expat Goth: Fuck It Like Beckham

Now, bizarrely enough, I have met the little scoundrel although, fortunately enough, not his twiglet of a wife.

6. Not Just Hiding: Little Boxes Little Boxes Little Boxes All The Same

“So,” said the trainee psychotherapist, the one being critically observed by her supervisor, who didn’t appear to be much older than she herself was, “Can you tell me, in your own words, what’s brought you here today?”

7. Rachel From North London: Holding The Tiller

I burned my mother’s pan. I cooked chicken and bacon for a warm salad for my father and sister when we came back from hospital, and I forgot that I left the pan soaking on a high heat.

8. A Scandal And A Disgrace: ASAAD fatwa on POTW - acronym jihad ahoy!

Mr A Scandal And A Disgrace (pictured above) has, yet again, fallen victim to the fluffy bunny brigade over at Post Of The Week (POTW) who have failed, once more, to recognise his genius.

9. Scary Duck: Doctor’s Note

Fans of my genitals - and I know there are thousands of you out there - will be pleased to hear the latest news bulletin regarding the ol’ meat-and-two veg, which arrived in the form of a letter from Bridport Community Hospital.

10. Scorn & Noise: Cautionary Tales For Modern Politicians

There was a Boy whose name was Dave,
Whose friends were frothing to the grave.
They gave him pics of Maggie Thatcher
And said that, if he were to match her,

11. An Unreliable Witness: As Sure As The Sun Rises

Then I wait for the flight of urban birds to deliver the tattered remnants of faded newsprint through the gaps, so that they drift lazily, on see-saw cradles of air, to my feet…

With apologies: Little Red Boat’s post has been taken off this week’s shortlist because she is last week’s winner (she’s just too damn good non?)