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I awoke feeling crapulent and lacking hope.

But since reading Times Literary Supplement's post above, suddenly everything's goosey.

I'm whistling a tune (all right it's 'Paranoid' by the Sabs, but I'm giving it a lilt) and all is at least, temporarily well with me.

Thanks TLS.

Man walks into his GP's surgery.

Raises his arm above his head, and says 'Doc it hurts when I do this'

The doctor looks at him and says 'Don't do it then'


Come on Keef, if we can't trust Tommy Cooper when it comes to medical matters, who can we trust?

The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.

- Joseph Heller, Catch-22


Dear HB & JL,


I think you may both be suffering some sort of psychological disorder. Unbelievable as that may seem.

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