Lion's Claw

Lion's Claw is a thriller staring the postman who looks like Stuart Maconie (Posty Maconie) and the car mechanic mechanic who looks like a dwarf version of George Clooney (Dwarf Cloonie). Clooney plays an ultra-cool assassin who think a long way ahead and Maconie's the gritty northern cop who's trailing him and likes psychadelic music. Johnny-5 makes a cameo appearance too.

This, my latest movie, was inspired by a new place I found today up on the moors. Today was annual pilgramage day for me and dd (or r or whatever it is he's called today). when we returned to the satan's own mushroom fields where the very mushrooms special proliferate at this very specific time of year. These days the whole event is much more about seeing them there and enjoying the lovely views in the clear skies free of summer's heat-haze. I'd like to go up there when it snows as it'd look amazing but there's good reasons not too. The actual act of taking a proper dose of trippy mushrooms is something I've not done for years as you really need to put a couple of days aside to let yourself recover. I tend to be very open to suggestion after I've come down off heavy hallucinogenic drugs and all sorts of funny ideas and obsessions can get planted there. Who needs that? Still. I do miss it. That brief connection with the universe and all the laughing and wowing, then that strange roller-coaster comedown when you peice every thing back together again and then the actual moment of trip-down when you're just cold, tired and alone and all the magic's dissipated off. Actually it's extra nice having someone to hold at that point. Not been too often for me I'm afraid.

However the omniportance (new word!) of those experiences to both dd and I is such that we really relish the chance to go up there and be with the little ones again and every time, we explore the hills a little further and today we found this mysterious circular structure about the size of a one story building with no windows or doors and steaming slightly. The steam was actually caused on closer inspection by the sun shining on the puddles laying on its flat metal roof. The structure we deduced was the top of an air vent above a tunnel or mine and sure enough, back at the bottom of the valley near where vannie was parked, there's the entrance to several train tunnels . The entrance was marked BR 1956, though I'm not sure if that was just the date that entrance was made. At least one or 2 more of the tunnels would be much older I'm guessing but I'll have to find out where the line went from and to. The tunnel is now used to run high-voltage electricity cables.

It all ends with Marillion

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On your knees!

I look like a king today.

It's always said around mental health services that you know when a man is becoming ill again when he stops shaving.

Of course it's rubbish or Brian Blessed would be....oh hang on, I'll start again.

Of course it's rubbish or Fidel Castro would be.....oh make your own mind up.

Well really they don't count as they probably both take some kind of care of their beards as I should be taking care of mine instead of doing this. It's a bit grey but it is a good beard and when I take my joke glasses off I look like the king I undoubtedly am. I'm descended from the hammer-of-the-scots himself and have a more solid claim to the throne than those Hanoverian pretenders. Of course it's pretty much an irrelevance as I am in my heart a republican. However if the country needs again the determined leadership of an absolute monarch in some time of great peril I would consider temporaily putting aside those qualms and take the crown as the new Arthur. Obviously I couldn't be King Koosie or that other name.

Or I might just shave this thing off tomorrow. It is getting itchy.

I thought about The Velveteen Rabbit today. It was because of escape pod funnily enough. The story was called Skinhorse goes to Mars and I'm still not convinced theres not a connection. Yes. No.

If I feel like a King it's Alfred. Some woman's shouting about burning some cakes and I'm thinking "Some fucking king. Can't even toast my own rubbish dinner, hiding in this shithole marsh while my enemies rampage my kingdom. "
But then I look at my kingly beard in a muddy stream and think:
" Well what the fuck do I know about toasting cakes. I'm a king for fucksake. Yeh. I'm the King. Look at this beard. I AM YOUR KING! "

Yeh. Bit of history there. Alfred the Great to you mate. He turned it around. So will I. I am your king. On your knees!

Aw, You are so pretty when you're on your knees.