We missed it. Damn! Well, there’s always next year… There have been some classic pranks pulled on this day in the past but for sheer style I don’t think this offering from the BBC in 1957 can be beaten. Apparently, afterwards they were besieged with calls from people who really wanted to know where...
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I wonder if it’s occurred to anyone that after the US stopped importing cigars from Cuba the average national IQ began to decline. Looking at what the various governments have been up to since they told Fidel to go take a hike it seems like a possible conclusion. Perhaps they still have to discover...
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Jesus Christ rose again from the dead; Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, the Eagles and the Marie Celeste all came back – but the Marie Celeste came back without her crew… Okay bad example. Let’s move on, the point for me was, Could I come back from mental oblivion? Being incapable of thought wasn’t all...
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Times were perilous but I was insensible to the danger. For the next two weeks, I didn’t do any work (although I did a lot of eating, drinking, running and reading). When I received an assignment by email I’d type some nit-picky question about an inconsequential detail and fire it back, knowing it would...
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The ogre I was ready to tussle with, whose fetid breath I expected hot on my face, was Physical Craving. I was sure we’d meet. After all I had been lacing my cells and tissues with nicotine since I was 15 years old. Logically, my body must have adapted all functions to run on...
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If you’re reading this right now you may have noticed the ad links that Google has selected for this page. Let me say a few things about methods or aids to help one give up smoking. First of all, as far as hypnotherapy is concerned JUST DON’T! Hypnosis is a scary thing. In some...
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