For the most part, our glorious leader, Dustbin Truthless, the Prime Ribber of Kanadoodle, is sitting back and smugly smiling at the antics of the opposition as they try to get some traction out of the latest political scandals. First there’s the Minister of Deference, Hardhit Sandbag. According to Erring O’Fool, leader of the Consumptive …
Month: June 2021
Old Children’s Classic – Pinocchio
Pinocchio by Carol Collodi (my copy published by Simply Read Books, 2002, illustrated by Iasssen Ghiuselev) 1807 saw the first publication of Thomas Bowdler’s ‘Family Shakespeare’, an edition of the Bard’s works where all the parts deemed racy, blasphemous or otherwise unsuitable for the young or female readers were removed. ‘Cleaning up’ tales for children …
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Has anyone had the experience of reading a book that is touted by critics as a masterpiece, got to the end and wondered why you bothered? Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita in 1955 and the book was so successful that he was able to give up a teaching career at Harvard and devote himself exclusively to …
It’s All About Buggy Whips
Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Nichols & May, may have been great comedy teams but they don’t hold a candle to our current champions - Ronald Rump & the Publican Party. There’s a bond between the two that just seems unshakeable. After his election loss (you know – the one that was stolen because …
Richard's Left Bank 