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Art in the House: Rabbit Ears

I found this bent coat-hanger in the street a few weeks ago and it looked like rabbit's ears so naturally I brought it home and shoved the hook into the base of a candle and put it on top of the local museum. My wife said "What's that?" and I said "Rabbit ears, don't you like them?" and she said "I don't know." I think she actually meant "No" but she was obviously thinking of my feelings. A few days later the whole construction fell to the ground with a loud crash and the ears came out of the candle. I gave up and put the rabbit ears in the bin. I think my wife gave the ears "male occi"* and that's why they took a dive.

*"male occi" - from the italian that literally means "bad eye". The old women in my mother-in-law's village gave it to my wife once when she told the priest off. She told the priest off because he'd told all the children that they couldn't play in the churchyard but should go and play in the busy road. The only reason the kids were playing there is because their houses had been destroyed in the earthquake that also destroyed my wife's grandmother's house. She was called "Nona" (but you probably don't spell it like that). I imagine my wife also asked the priest why his poxy god had sent the earthquake to destroy the village as well. You don't want to fuck with her. You're just not built for it. I'm glad she mostly uses her "male occi" for good and not evil (even if she did destroy the rabbit ears).

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Blue Yves Montand

I've been drawing pictures with a biro on an A4 plain paper (punched) in a 200m page pad. The biro is black and for this activity I need a studio. Really.

I coloured this one in Potatoshop (badly). When I say coloured I really mean that I filled it with a single flat (but web safe) colour. As a computer user I'm the wrong age - neither disdainful and awkward around them but without the naturalness for keyboard shortcuts that I'd have if I was ten years younger (except in Quark where I am a keyboard king). Probably the fact that I reveal myself as a Quark superuser rather than an In Design guru reveals me to be of a lost generation.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Naxos, the excellent budget CD producer who started out with new recordings of the classical repertoire, diversified into audio books and DVDs a while ago. They've obviously run out of material so the latest release is the multi-CD set of Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'. I'm lovin' it.

My parents in Switzerland (I guess)

I think this picture was taken in Switzerland and was probably taken by my grandfather (Mum's Dad). My parents are obviously really hard as it looks freezing and neither has bothered with a coat. Probably 1957.