The Man from Atlantis - in 1978 when I was eight years old there was an American science fiction television series called 'the Man from Atlantis.' I can't remember watching a single episode (probably because my conservative, devout Christian parents weren't keen on TV - the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree). But I did know that the main character (played by Patrick Duffy - later Bobby Ewing of Dallas fame) had the same name as me - Mark Harris. (Actually my name is (Andrew) Mark Harris but my parents have always called me by my second name.) Unlike the original Atlantean, I don't have webbed fingers, as you can see from the slightly overexposed image of my left hand. I wanted to take the photograph out of doors, but it was kind of hard to get the piano out through the front-door.Britney Spears and Gordon Brown - for the sake of continuity I tried to find a link between the Man from Atlantis, Patrick Duffy, Dallas and either Britney Spears or Gordon Brown. Apart from the fact that I happened to think about all those people/things on the same day, I coudn't find one. If anyone reading this does, let me know. I know very little about Britney and care to know less, but messed up and utterly undeserving of sympathy as some may consider her to be (let him that hath no sin cast the first stone) I can't help but feel sorry for her and for her children. (And indeed for the millions of families who break up because of stupid adult? behaviour every day, but never hit the news.) On the same day that this appeared on the British news, Gordon Brown announced the intended withdrawal of one thousand soldiers from Iraq before the end of the year. There is a lot of cynicism about his announcement, though the all too familiar quiver of that fullsome lower lip (tremulous sucking in of the mandible) looked quite sincere to me. I and the rest of the United Kingdom subsequently learned that five hundred of those troops had already been promised a return home and of those, two hundred were already safely back within the watery borders of our Sceptered Isle.
Tony Blair (who?), Alastair Campbell, Wikipedia and the BBC - yes I have gone overboard with the hypertext but this is my first ever post, If you've clicked every link so far, you'll have worked out that I quite like Wikipedia. The BBC is not bad either despite what Blair and Campbell tried to do to it over WMD and the Iraq War. Though to be fair to Campbell, I've seen him in person lecturing on the role of the media in the twenty-first century. He was actually quite sensible. Thanks to my friend Tony Rucinski for that one.
You might also like to know that:
- There are Five hundred places in the United Kingdom that you need to visit before you die (you can leave out Stonehenge, but more of that later).
- There is at least one known Al Qaida suspect in the United Kingdom for every one of the two hundred soldiers that Gordon Brown has alreaady brought home (another connection perhaps?)
Have a good one.
M
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