Lawrence,
Thanks for pointing out your reference to Conservative Party Cabinet Minister Eric Pickles, whom I've now researched. Karl Rove comes to mind as broadly equivalent here in the states. I've even become aware of the "Eric Pickled Egg", which appeared on the menu of a fish & chip shop in his constituency as a MP, until he "sat on" the owner and convinced him that Eric Pickles did not like vinegar. "In bad taste", in deed.
Despite your capitalization of "Pickles", I never conceived of it as a last name. Chips, pastries, and pickles struck me as convenience foods which might be amongst the stomach contents of rats/humans inhabiting Downing Street.
No mystery any longer about why Larry dreams of larger jaws, though if he wanted to consume "The Gherkin" as well . . .
Barry
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:07:54 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Thank you, Barry. It's really kind of you to take the trouble to say so.
>
>When I made the crack about Maude it sort of occurred to me I should gloss
>it for people outside UK. But then.... events.... being busy
>
>Pickles, you understand, is a minister? An immensely large man. Not a nice
>man
>
>
>
>On Thu, February 24, 2011 16:32, Barry Alpert wrote:
>> Lawrence,
>>
>>
>> I must say that I've reread Your "Manifesto . . ." today for perhaps the
>> seventh time with enjoyment. Two google searches (on "Larry in Downing
>> Street" and "Francis Maude") after my first reading cleared away whatever
>> particular confusion I had about the subject matter, allowing me to
>> delight in your treatment of details.
>>
>> Koched-up Congressmen sleeping in their offices on Capitol Hill in
>> Washington DC, anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:57:07 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm only telling you what the cat said.
>>>
>>>
>>> I had grapes for breakfast and cereal later. Larry, or The Vermin Tsar
>>> as we must now call him, has just dragged Francis Maude behind my second
>>> filing cabinet. He's not fussy
>>>
>>> I wonder if he'd eat Berlusconi
>>>
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, February 16, 2011 16:53, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay, your honesty gets my vote, Lawrence...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A Berlusconi for the UK?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-02-16, at 3:53 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Don't call me Larry. My name is Lawrence,
>>>>> crunching the spine chords of Downing Street rats; I long for tastes
>>>>> of their plump meat wriggling -
>>>>>
>>>>> they're good at that; and screaming; yell nonsense in parasitic
>>>>> gush. I bite on it. Mouth closes, verbal squeaking at an end.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me savour it. I'm getting Pickles.
>>>>> I'm getting pastries. And some bags of chips.
>>>>> Flesh that has matured in comfortable chairs,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> disguised or hidden by corpulent trousers. Most of that is fantasy.
>>>>> I
>>>>> haven't started. But surely a cat can wank among this lot.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My prey are kind to me so far. Nothing,
>>>>> you know, personal. It's only politics for rodents. I'm dreaming my
>>>>> jaws bigger.
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> NAMING and CURSING: some live text-sound compositions
>>>>> http://www.revistalaboratorio.cl/2010/12/naming-and-cursing-some-liv
>>>>> e-te xt-sound-composition/
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Lawrence Upton
>>>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>>>> Dept of Music
>>>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>>>
>>
>
>
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>---
>NAMING and CURSING: some live text-sound compositions
>http://www.revistalaboratorio.cl/2010/12/naming-and-cursing-some-live-text-sound-composition/
>
>---
>Lawrence Upton
>AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>Dept of Music
>Goldsmiths, University of London
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