Journal 2Filed under Encounters with fiends, Food for thought, Sport
I can’t believe Ronnie O’Sullivan has been punished for asking a journalist if they fancied a nosh on his microphone. The man’s a genius, clearly.
On my way out of Ravenscourt Park today, I walked past a gang of little rudeboy whippersnappers on bikes. They were playing a game which involved throwing coins at a wall. One of the scamps crooned to me: “Oi boss! Oi boss! It’s my Birthday today…” I grinned from ear-to-ear and said: “Oh really? Happy Birthday!” In a over-effusive yet genuine voice. To my surprise the little tyke cocked his head over, leaned back on his bicycle, and said “Ta very much!” whilst issuing a thumbs up. I walked off thinking to myself that surely something else was supposed to have happened
Harry Enfield was filming a scene for his new series in my local greasy spoon (called ‘The Ritz’, truthfully enough) on King Street. He stood out like a big burning satsuma in the middle of the crowd of plastic extras.
Extras are a funny lot. They are the sort of people you’d buy from Ikea.
I have an itch to paint more portraits. I want to get some more photos and music up on the website too.
Someone said to me the other day that the reason why the England football team doesn’t win everything is because there are so many foreign players in the premiership. Obviously there must be some sort of conspiracy (led by ‘fucking’ Arsene Wenger according to him) to keep all the good English players down and out of the League by importing lots of inferior and over-priced foreigners to lower the standard of football in this country. There are only 191 English premiership players left now. It’s a wonder they can field a full team. I did pause for a second and suggest, incredible it may be, that perhaps we don’t have very good players in this country. He then reminded me that I must be racist to suggest such a thing. All countries are fundamentally the same, and in this state of affairs, clearly, England would win every match. “If it weren’t for the fucking foreigners” I imagine he forgot to add because it was just so obvious.