Winker's World of Smashin' Things

29.9.13

26.9.13

‘You remember the spider that lived in a bush outside your window? Orange body, green legs, watched her build a web all summer, then one day there was a big egg in it, the egg hatched…’
‘The egg hatched… and a hundred baby spiders came out, and they ate her.’

‘Implants. They aren’t your memories, they’re somebody else’s....

14.9.13

Bah! Humbug

So, if your air-conditioner goes on the fritz, or your washing machine blows up, or your video recorder conks out. Before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights.
Check all the closets and cupboards. Look under all the beds.
'Cause you never can tell.

There just might be a gremlin in your house.

12.9.13

Pissed or Parkinsons ?

"That shakey shit might come in handy ... you don't know his motherfuckin' skills"

11.9.13

Falling Man RIP

I wonder what he would have made of the decade that followed ?

10.9.13

Went The Day Well?

Went the day well ?

We died and never knew.

But, well or ill,

Freedom, we died for you.

Smashin' Things

O'Hare didn't have any souveniers. Almost everybody else did. I had a ceremonial Luftwaffe sabre,..Paul Lazzaro...had about a quart of diamonds and emeralds and rubies and so on. He had taken these from dead people in the cellars of Dresden. So it goes

An idiotic Englishman, who had lost all his teeth somewhere, had his souvenier in a canvas bag. The bag was resting on my insteps. He would peek into the bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag. And he would bounce the bag on my insteps.

I thought this bouncing was accidental. But I was mistaken. He had to show somebody what was in the bag, and he had decided he could trust me. He caught my eye, winked, opened the bag. There was a plaster model of the Eiffel Tower in there. It was painted gold. It had a clock in it.

"There's a smashin' thing," he said.

Slaughterhouse5 - Kurt Vonnegut