By Alan Rogers in London I used to work with someone who lamented time between beers by saying ‘A man is not a camel’. A very different inference to your analogy. The reference to ‘Snitch’ (Notes from a Funeral) first had me puzzled. I tried to find these plausible titles to no avail. I was […]
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Marriage is a strange institution. Moulded more by influence of the church than by the practitioner. It ties two people together in an established society. For better, or for worse.
The reason marriages fail. If I may be so bold as to offer further opinion; is that the goal of marriage is often confused. Some people think it is about sex. To some it may be, but in reality, sexual drive is a young persons domain, and marriages are meant to last a lifetime; so I don’t really think sex is a reason for marriage. Some people think it is about love. But love can be as ungraspable as the mist. It is there, sure, but what does it mean? To some it is about companionship, supposing that good friends and family mean nothing compared with someone you have legally committed to.
Today I learned about the death of fellow antipodean, Uncle Rolf (Harris). He died (apparently) at his home in Berkshire in the beautiful village of Bray. A long way from his birthplace of Bassendean near Perth. What surprised me though, was that I didn’t know they had let him out
There are are huge injustices in this world. One thing we cannot do is fight them all. We have to sweat the small stuff, and hope the bigger stuff takes care of itself.
I am reading a book by self confessed leather dyke; Pat Califa called ‘Public Sex’. It was written in the era of Aids and was a humane effort to bring to light how politicians and law enforcement agencies spent far too much effort and resource trying to discredit, and if possible arrest anyone performing anything other than vanilla heterosexual sex behind closed doors as a means of stopping the disease,
when empathy, free condoms, and free needles would have gone far further and cost less.
Sexual compatibility is a learned behaviour in marriage. Something you can not test for.’ So says Laura M Brotherson, author of ‘They were not Ashamed: Strengthening Marriage through Sexual Fulfilment.
There are exceptions of course. Always.
The opening is a short essay by Charles Bukowski entitled ‘My Madness’. I prefer the lyricalism of Betjeman personally, but I like Bukowski’s grittiness. He types with nicotine stained fingers. I imagine him in a similar way to how Henry Miller was portrayed in ‘Henry and June’.
A review of the script for Missy Jubilee’s 146th film ‘What’s in the Box?” – my pussy tastes like justice