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"A Rule for Compelling Narrative:
When the story slows down, add a monkey and see what happens."

THE GREAT WHITEWOLF GIVEAWAY!

It's been five whole years since I published my first book! To celebrate my author anniversary, ALL of my Kindle books are FREE for five days! Find out more information here:

https://www.goodreads.com/event/show/...

Many thanks! :)

"British pop culture is now much more into the public mainstream forefront. They don't care about war in the Middle East. That's nothing to do with them. Samantha Fox wins every time over the Middle East. This is the nature of the British. They are very trivia-orientated, gossipy villagers. The English press are like those horrible old women peeping behind the lace curtains."

"I was utterly appalled when I heard the damned urn with Sid's ashen remains was dropped and smashed to the floor at Heathrow Airport. It was common gossip at the time of Sid's death. Classic Sid mythology. Sid was such a hopeless failure at everything, it was so typical. Such a horrible way to end - just blowing around the air-conditioning at Heathrow is kind of funny."

"The whole point was to get off your arse and do it yourself. If you weren't doing it, then you weren't no good only because you're damned lazy."

"When I got back to London after the American tour, Vivienne Westwood had sprayed on her shopfront: "John Fucks the Pope." That was supposed to offend me. Silly cow. She couldn't have got it more wrong. It amused me no end, silly bitch."

I need 2 more ratings to make 400 ratings for my books in total!

You can make it happen by reading my poetry book Two Beat Newbie for free here:

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/e870ab...

Go on, you know you want to. :)

"(The album had) a really horrible, ugly, cheesy cover with absolutely no consideration about it. There was no great master plan, it was just the simplest and ugliest thing we could come up with on a bored afternoon. No genius. However, now, of course, it's become the punk Venus de Milo."

Hey peeps,

I recently came across this online article: "33 backpacking quotes to fill your soul with wanderlust" - and my quote is number 1, beating Jack Kerouac, Aldous Huxley, Lao Tzu, Oprah Winfrey and David Bowie! Hahaha!

https://www.203challenges.com/33-back...

"The McCartneys wanted to make records with me. I could see that if I fell into that, then I would become Johnny Showbiz... One day I was driving past Harrods in a cab. Paul McCartney and his family came out, saw me, then ran after the car. I locked the door so they couldn't jump in. The driver turned round and said, 'Jesus, I've seen it all now. I remember when people used to chase him. Now he's chasing you.'"

"I cannot understand why anyone would want to put out a movie like Sid and Nancy and not bother to speak to me; Alex Cox, the director, didn't. He used as his point of reference - of all people on this earth - Joe Strummer! The guttural singer from The Clash? What the fuck did he know about Sid and Nancy? That's probably all he could find, which is scraping the bottom of the barrel."

"Joseph was a nonce / Mary a slut"

"JOE STRUMMER'S
FACE
has never looked so
dumb
since it first appeared on a blurry 12 x
12

fucking canvas."

Many thanks to author Ashley Uzzell for reviewing my children's book The Top Secret Cheese (written under my pen name of Mr. Wolf). The review is featured in this month's Indie Publishing News (Issue #22):

http://online.fliphtml5.com/ohxp/vrqr...

Many thanks to Jason for writing such a great review of my children's book Terry The Time Travelling Tortoise (by my pen name of Mr. Wolf) on his blog, and even bigger thanks to his daughter for drawing an excellent picture of Terry. I was rather touched to see a young reader of my book drawing my characters!

https://felcherman.wordpress.com/2018...

What a threesome to lose in the last week... Stephen Hawking, Ken Dodd and Jim Bowen!

('Who?' ask everyone outside of the UK, with regards to the latter two.)

Right, I'm off to find some super, smashing, great black holes with my tickling stick.

('What?' asks everyone outside of the UK...)

"Poor old Sid. I even got him the girlfriend that ruined him."

Many thanks to Uzzell Books for reviewing my children's book The Top Secret Cheese (written under my pen name of Mr. Wolf) on their blog:

https://authorauzzell.wordpress.com/2...

And you can read The Top Secret Cheese for FREE here:

http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/e870ab_...

Woohoo!

"There was a lot of Viv(ienne Westwood) selling stuff that she took from everything and everyone, particularly me. I was angry about that. I would put things together, and she'd have it in the fucking shop a couple of weeks later - mass produced. There wouldn't be the slightest blinking or guilt about it."

"Shane MacGowan used to come and see us play all the time. He'd be down in the front totally pissed out of his head in his Union Jack T-shirt. When he joined The Pogues, he traded it in for a tricolour. So funny. Just like that - instant nationality swap."

"It really annoys me now fifteen or so years later when these bands say they were influenced by the Sex Pistols. They clearly can't be. They missed the point somewhere. You don't wear the tattered uniform of blandness - not if you're interested in the Pistols at all. It's all about being yourself! Be a fucking individual."

"The new Giveaway programme will be great for indie authors now you have to pay for the service," said Goodreads.

"Bollocks will it," said every indie author (and reader) on Goodreads.

With only 30 books currently listed in the Giveaway section, I think it proves the indie writers were right. ;)

"In Glen (Matlock)'s book, he claimed all I ever said to him was 'Drop dead.' That's right Glen. Drop dead. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't seem to think I meant it. I fucking well did."

"I wrote 'God Save the Queen'...one morning waiting for my baked beans to cook. I wrote the lyrics in one sitting and went straight to the rehearsal studio. I handed them over to the other guys. The tune was already worked out, and I just put those lyrics over it. It did not amuse Glen at all. He could not cope. He thought it was evil: 'You can't do that! We'll get killed' (he said)."

"I know a lot has been said about Glen (Matlock) being the melodious one, and that without him we would never have had hit singles. For God's sake, who gives a damn about a hit single? Irrelevant and, apart from that, a lie. For all of Glen's melodiousness, he didn't exactly do very much when he left us, did he? I don't think people realised that it takes all members to fit that together."

It might be a miracle that Mark E Smith lived to be 60 in the first place, but I'm still extremely saddened to hear of his death. The Fall are one of the most important and greatest bands to have ever been, not just for the music.

I'm now going to get totally wired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1TP...

"I've never seen anything solved by violence. History usually comes back to where it all began; you either learn to assimilate or exterminate, and not just your enemy, but yourself."

(They'd say:) "dirty Irish bastards!" Now they transfer it onto the blacks. There will always be hate in the English because they're a hateful nation. That's the trouble with working-class people throughout the world. They always try to spur their hatred onto what they see as being lower down the scale, rather than going for the fucking jugular of the upper-class bastards who are keeping them down in the first place.