Issue 156

..know I’m pro-procrastination as a lifestyle, but the practised procrastinator has to have a steady nerve to hold firm to his or her course of inaction. I did get badly stung in one respect, and that can be directly attributed to hanging on just that little bit too long. About a month before I was…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. I’ve come to quite like my stinky asparagus pees actually, which probably tells me that I’ve been living on my own for too long. I’ve been skimming through my ‘WHY in West Germany’ journal (1983) to see if I can find any references to my German asparagus story. Boy!…

.. nylon-string guitar for instance sounds unnervingly ambivalent and jangly as a result, especially in the top three strings. Not to mention that my right ear is so shot to pieces that I prefer to wear an ear plug rather than a hearing aid when I’m playing or listening to even slightly amplified music, as…

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..Wall. (Check out the wall on my Facebook page) David Langsam commented that ‘..the Palace has the potential to be a good venue, but the wrestling and golf and rotating sports on big screens is a terrible distraction.’ Ron Mahony, a fellow Cantabrian musician responded with, ‘Hell – we used to play with both the…

.. in any case, I was on modest stipend (a bursary) that I was contracted to repay by becoming a teacher after graduating. In fact, now that I mention it, ambition is another area I’ve always been deficient in, so you put that together with a lack of vision and you might begin to understand…