Harry Whitewolf > Recent Status Updates

"5 November 1961
The evening with the Bolts was awful...Some drunken comedian from Australia (Barry Humphries) - sick jokes- who was really the end - with hair all over the place.

20 December 1961
...read script of Carry On Cruising, the usual crap."

"17 September 1961
...went to Trafalgar Square (for the protest)...The police used filthy methods of removing limp, passive people - a man dragged by one arm with his head on the ground...a woman thrown bodily against a wall...One saw the fascist and the savagery in (the police) start to emerge. One thing became abundantly clear. (The crowd) hated the bomb, and they hated the corrupt government that didn't ban it."

"14 September 1961
...The issue...is whether one can, in all conscience, be a party to the manufacture and acquiescence in usage of something as horrible as H-bombs. For any honest person the answer can only be no. And if, in reply, they say 'Well if you don't use them, the enemy will....', the only possible reply for me is 'All right - that's a risk I have to take.

"4 July 1961
...went up to see Hal Roach, an American film director who looked like the American cliche and actually succeeded in sounding like one. Pot bellied and conceited and rude. 'I am going to make you a comedian, like a Kaye, or a Lewis, or a Chaplin...' These are 3 horrible things to be, for me."

"21 January 1960
Mr. Cohen...wanted me to star with Diana Dors in New York! I said a very firm no thank you. Really! - outrageous these Americans."

"13 June 1959
To Michael Codron at 1 o'c. Lunched with him. He has found some v. good material from a boy called Peter Cook from Cambridge. It sounds excellent."

"18 June 1955:

An admirer of (Orson) Welles was discussing him with Rita Hayworth in America and she remarked: 'Oh! Orson - yeah, he's clever all right...' and added thoughtfully: 'The morning after we were married, I woke up, and I could tell by the expression on his face, he was just waiting for the applause...'"

"16 March 1955

Reading an article by V. S. Pritchett I came upon sentiments to the effect that genius is only tolerable to the average man when it is dead. I think this is very illuminating. Why is it, I wonder, that brilliance and talent, in any field, is so often resented and decried. It is always a tendency to damn with faint praise, or detract in some way from proper valuation."

"Thursday 29 July 1954

Girl dancing with uniformed fellow asks his designation and is told he is a Gurkha officer, she says she thought they were black, and he says 'No, only our privates are black' and she replies 'My dear, how fantastic.'"

Goodreads just recommended me a book called The E Before Christmas.

Unfortunately it's not the tale of Christmas Eve MDMA taking that I had hoped for.

"29 January 1954

Man went to see a psychiatrist - Man: O! I'm a frightful state doctor! I feel that I am suffering from an inferiority complex.

Dr: Perhaps you're inferior.

Peter Nichols told me this story - it's the perfect answer to all the psychological bunkum that goes on."

"16 October 1953

All actors are playwrights that cannot write plays: all playwrights are actors that cannot act. And I've a sheaf of manuscripts to prove it!"

THE RELIABILITY OF NEWS REPORTS

In Yahoo's news feed there are two headlines close to each other that read:

"UK Supreme Court case will provide a clear legal path to block Article 50 and stop Brexit"

and

"The Brexit fallout is coming — but it could actually be GOOD news".

Good to know we now know what's what post-Brexit then, eh?

(November 1952)

"He had never seen one of these (drag) shows before, and was amazed at the open depravity of it all. The management described it with delightful irony as 'good family entertainment'.

Because I'm currently reading The Kenneth Williams Diaries, Goodreads recommends I read The Insider by Piers fucking Morgan. Jeez, that's actually made me angry...

If authors are so keen to get their books made into films, might I suggest they try a career in screenwriting instead? :) I prefer to write books that are un-filmable myself.

A rootin'-tootin' review to come...

Oh my god! Postman Pat's dead!

...well, Ken Barrie, who was Pat's voice has died.

I'm well chuffed. I received a signed paperback copy of Rupert Dreyfus' Spark today and found that he'd included a quote by me.
Though I could've sworn the postman, dressed in a leopard skin dressing gown and fur hat, was actually Vinnie Sloane.

Wranglers' Canyon finished. Crash Walker to go. Yee-ha!

I've got a plan. I'm going to write some Daily Mail style funny poetry about Simon Cowell and how great Britain is and perform it at Britain's Got Talent auditions. Then I'll win the show and go on The Royal Variety Performance and unleash my true colours with a poem called Fuck The Queen.

I can't see anything going wrong with that.

There's still time to get your mitts on free Kindle copies of my two travel books.

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Thanks to everyone who's already grabbed a copy!

I'm rootin-tootin loving this. :)

My two travel books are now free to download on Kindle for the next five days.


You can grab them here:

Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol -
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Many thanks!

How can I have reached the grand old age of 40 and only just learnt that the plural for octopus isn't octopi as I'd always thought?

Here's the cover for my next poetry book: Rhyme and Rebellion.

Coming Autumn 2016.

https://www.goodreads.com/photo/autho...

Check out this interview that me and Daniel Clausen did recently:

http://theyounggirlwholovedbooks.blog...

I voted...
...so I really hope Charlie is evicted from Big Brother.

ReejecttIIon is now FreejecttIIon!
Yes, you have five days to grab a free Kindle copy of our book ReejecttIIon – a number two (16th – 20th June), so what are you waiting for? It’s funny! It’s fresh! It’s frigging fantastic! So download now!
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I got a five pound note/the other day/turned it over and read
it and said they were CUNTS./Something about Muslims
being terrorists/whatever)/picture me giving a damn
I said DO ONE./At that very minute it occurred to me/people on this land are so ignorant/(they've always been)./―Don't sweat it
they're customers/―thinking they have authority‖;/but I'm fed up of racists/(it's like being in a state pen)......