‘You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve ever had to really express yourself.’
-Louise to Thelma, in Thelma and Louise
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‘You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve ever had to really express yourself.’
-Louise to Thelma, in Thelma and Louise
Things In My Head 
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Thank you Cabrogal. Your insightful comment is much appreciated and very informative. Jung has a very encouraging approach to madness and Colonel Gaddafi’s comment is very liberating! I think it’s time to accept my madness and f*** everyone else. (You see the problem there, I used astericks)
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So when you write the book, what colour will it be?
Will I someday be quoting Sue Young from The Multicoloured Kaleidoscope Book?
(BTW, I originally used the above quotes in this post.)
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Er…maybe Multicoloured Swap Shop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx0rki-3A9A It’s all I can remember from my awful teenage years, the BBC and Noel Edmonds and cold, ruthless people swapping hamsters for guinea pigs and Operation for Simon. I turned over to Tiswas in the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXsgkwcPvg&list=RDqPJ9a3JHfYE&index=2 But there’s the mid to late seventies and early eighties for you, post traumatic fun.
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A BBC kids program that wasn’t exported to the ABC and inflicted on us colonials?
It must have been truly awful.
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It was.
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I just discovered that although we never had the BBC program here we did produce our own rip-off. What’s more we exported it to the UK. And I’d always thought Neighbours was the ultimate act of revenge against our former imperial overlords.
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Benign, innocent and sweet, these lazy girls just wanted to sleep. It wasn’t like they were out robbing, mugging and slashing, causing trouble and mouthing off. They were actually READING, maybe learning something and minding their own business to boot. If Mr. Slumber hadn’t been on Children’s T.V, he would have had something different in mind for them.
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We’re talking the 1980s here. Reagan, Thatcher, the dawn of neo-liberalism. Robbing, mugging and slashing shows initiative and enterprise. It contributes to the GDP. Sleeping is strictly for slackers and scroungers. Maggie and Ronnie both got by on less than four hours per night. Never mind that inadequate sleep is known to aggravate dementia. Who needs a mind when you’ve got money and power?
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Yeah, Maggie on four hours a night haunts me lately because that’s what I live off now, when I don’t nick my husbands amitriptyline. Didn’t know Ronnie also did four hours. They were soul mates in a way. Heard that she made tea for her cabinet ministers regularly, most meetings. She poured it, put in milk and sugar. She was mother, every time.
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Christ, Maggie as mother. And I thought mine was scary enough.
Pretty funny that the ‘best man for the job’, famous for taking the free milk program away from children during her first month heading the Education ministry, was known for dotingly pouring milk for the overgrown infants of her Tory cabinet.
Here’s my tribute to the Iron Lady upon her demise.
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