Shminky minky

Don’t ya just hate those joke emails, that whilst kinda funny in content, end with a patronising little message such as ‘ Now that you’ve smiled today, why not pass on this message and make some other folk smile?’….Well to those message mongers I say - No, fuck you, why should I, and more importantly what are you gonna do if I don’t? Apologies for beginning this little rant in such a negative manner but whilst BC are still in a state of flux (due to the snapped leg-age of our idiotic bass-playing man-beast), I have began to grow irritable about the sheer lack of Bomb Culture based news to impart to you dear, loyal and faceless reader (I’m sure you do actually have a face, I just have no idea what it looks like and therefore have to envision you as some form of amorphous blob. Perhaps like a potato with a face drawn on in biro or something).
So with little to say whilst the band’s forced hiatus continues, we move our peepers once again to other affairs and yet another BC Salute….

George Carlin – Awww Crap! It’s getting like a bleedin’ morgue around here! First of Stan Winston kicks the rubberised bucket, and now George Carlin! Now, I have to confess to not knowing a great deal about the great man, but from the early days of Saturday Night Live to his last years as (bizarrely) the American voice of Thomas The Tank Engine (Actually not so odd we had Ringo Starr) , Carlin was, as one tribute put it ‘a real funny motherfucker’.

Here’s a bit from the Chortle website just to put you in the picture…Carlin will be best known for his controversial Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television routine. He was arrested for obscenity for performing it in 1972, but its later airing on a New York radio station led to a groundbreaking US Supreme Court case in 1978, which led to a nationwide 10pm watershed for indecent material. Of the case, Carlin said: ‘My name is a footnote in American history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of.’

And here’s the great man in action…CLICK ME I AM A LINK AND I AM FILTHY

So, for services to the use of bad words by good people….George Carlin, Bomb Culture Salutes You!!!

Nothing much else to report today – I’m off into the Heart of Darkness on a kayaking trip with Mr.Sul tomorrow, so if your near a river bank on the steaming tropical delta that is The River Wye, then why not rip off your under-skirts and wave at us like Jenny Aguter in The Railway Children.

Next time – Actual, proper news about the band and a report into how the residents of Mid Wales made a Visual Artist squeal like a pig.

Bomb Culture - May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.