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Bernadotten

Posted in Politics, Songs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 25, 2012| 2 Comments »

I have been told, repeatedly, by Skyman that I write too few political songs these days. Well, to appease him, I wrote this today. (more…)

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Royalists are morons — follow-up

Posted in Politics, Rantscript, tagged , , , , , , , on March 1, 2012| 4 Comments »

Skyman alerted me to the following piece of news: (more…)

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The Importance of being Consistent, or Her Majesty’s Hideous Hippopotamus — Chapter I, Part I

Posted in Stories, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

A Patrick McNamarra Adventure

It was hideous. It was huge. It was hideously huge, massively disproportioned, and grossly inappropriate for the position to which it was about to be elevated. But, there it was: the Queen’s pet hippopotamus, clad for the occasion in Regal Burgundy and gold, paraded through the streets of the capital, this evening to be knighted and appointed Prime Minister of the Empire. More than a few members of the crowd that was usually seen at or around the Royal Court had written in their secret diaries of their desperate hope that this, the latest of Her Majesty’s antics, would turn out to be nothing but a cruel joke on their behalf, but of course no one spoke a word of it.

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