Well! Something shocking happened to me the other day. I told my favourite joke that, let the record show, I made up myself and have been telling it for years... only for the person I told it to to tell me they’d recently read it in a book. But not any old book - oh no! It was a book full of dad jokes 🤭...
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I don’t like to say rock’n’roll cos it ain’t a proper genre, more of a colloquial term like classic rock. Really it’s desire gone mad, cos it’s like how they called My Chemical Romance an emo band when they were just punks who knew how to play their instruments.
So if I call something rock’n’roll, it’s for lack of distinction — it’s really blues rock...
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Back in 2008, a community worker hooked me up with a film making group. The organiser looked at my script and said the actors might want to change some of the lines.
I can’t remember why but it filled me with a pride, I said “that’s cool. I’d love to see the actors bring my creations to life in their own way.” I still would...
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I got a story so sweet if I tell it out loud I’ll cry so I’m typing it.
When I was about 7yo my lil sis who was about 4yo wasn’t allowed upstairs but me and my older sis were cuz we were older.
She’d go to the safety gate and look up the stairs hoping we’d open the gate and let her in. Of...
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Psychologically labelled til I die. You’re asking what, should be asking why. Choreographed movements hide the truth, to organise the confusion behind my youth.
Stop. Just stop.
You’re making up, they’re breaking up, he’s changed his mind, she’s changed the locks.
Just in time to figure out who’s locked out... and who’s locked in.
Experience pays when you’ve been derailed, the more experienced you are...
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“Here’s the crucial thing; when you’re unconscious, that’s when dreams come true. I awoke to find myself living in a nightmare. But... the important thing is, I was conscious again. The curiosity of a dream; if you want them to be real, don’t wake up.”