Tuesday, 24 May 2011

A Yorkshire Trilogy


King Prawns

In a Yorkshire restaurant

Customer: Excuse me, on the menu it says 'King Prawns'.
Waiter: Sorry love, that's a typo it should say ''king Prawns'.

Cough

In a Doctor's surgery in yorkshire

Doctor: Good, now could you cough for me please?
Patient: There's no need for that.
Doctor: Sorry
Patient: Why don't you 'k'off?

Julius Caeser

Caesar: Ef you, Brute!

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Rosemary's Baby, a kitchen sink drama

At the launderette

Washer Woman: Ere, Rosie, how's that husband of yours?
Rosemary: [unloads machine] He's a rotter, [beat] you'll never guess what he gone and done now.
WW: What's it this time love?
Rosemary: He's only gone and whored me out to the bloomin' Devil.
WW: He never.
Rosemary: He bloomin' well has.
WW: Well I never.
Rosemary: Couldn't believe it meself.
WW: He ought to be ashamed of himself.
Rosemary: That's what I said.

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Happy Court


Yay! You're going to court, where everyone loves each other!


Sweet! It's like a frikkin Tim Burton animation



But beware of the Damocles punctuation

Friday, 10 September 2010

Yesterday

A bouquet of unsettling scenes bound by a book, a chance glance out of the window, a man dying in the corner of the eye.

Monday, 6 September 2010

Invention of smiling

When Adam glanced Eve's facsimile smile, did he flash it back verbatim?

Afterlife

I like to think that when we die the cells in memory's prison open up, memories flood out in some ecstatic riot, and we live our whole lives, all at once.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Labour

They imported him over from the 3rd or 4th world, maybe the 5th, stuck him with a robotic voicebox that said only one word, Stan-derd, Stan-derd, all metallical. He whispers nothing to his love by underlining the paper.

Monday, 31 May 2010

Sexism
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Saturday, 29 May 2010

Cosmopolitanism: a Trilogy

1
A mother stands at a corner with her children, contemplating the street ahead

Mother: What do you want, McDonalds or Burger King?

2
Two guys walking down a street

Guy1: This Starbucks is pretty crowded, maybe we should go to the next one.

3
The Subway manager stands beneath a regulation banner written 'Under New Management'
Manager: Things aren't going to change around here.

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Structured like a sandwich, two thin slices surrounding rancid filling

3 Old ladies sit at a cafe table. Armed with wet wipes they scrub away at the contours of their withered white hands. Margaret begins to recount a dream:

In a corporate convention that smells like semen it is decreed by Tricky-dicky Nixon and Genghis Khan that from now on all monsters shall get along with other monsters. An economic boom orgy follows, refined petroleum is guzzled at dinner parties and everyone is fucking loaded on drugs and cash. Yet with no blessed wars, population spirals out of control, gas chambers appear on every corner, the proletariat are hit first, when only a few toilet cleaners remain the miserable middling classes get theirs too. But that it is the future. Back at the convention now and champagne flows, hand shakes turn in to hand jobs and the canopy squad hold silver trays of narcotics under eager noses. One man snorts a line of a thousand microscopic daggers painted white to look like cocaine. He takes the joke well, laughing as his freshly detached nose slides down his face. In another room the evening's performance has started. One girl screws the other with a plutonium strap on wrapped in a christ coloured condom. Men adhere to the unspoken no-wank policy, instead observing with loaded erections stretching the fabric of their trousers. Family men. Company men. Good people. the fucking continues until her radioactive orgasm goes off, sending out a signal for all shorts in the room to be sprayed. Erections pop and erupt, so begins our Tsunami of seminar, giving the beginning of the dream its odor, and bringing it to an end.

Oh dear Margaret, says one of the women, that sounds very disturbing.
Oh I rather liked it, says Margaret, it reminds me of when I was young.