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Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Supercargo’s Fifty-three-year-old Birthday Blues Podcast Script Greetings, my name is John Nixon, also known as TheSupercargo, of www.thesupercargo.com Happy birthday to you You were once fifty-two Now you’re just a year older So why’re you so blue? Last weekend I turned 53. [...] Continue reading Birthday Blues  Poem retelling a family story about my father and his father. Dad ran away from home to enlist in the army just in time for World War Two. [...] Continue reading Bad timing (1938) Biographical entry about my father, Dudley “Nick” Nixon, June 1922-October 1995. Musings on father-son relationships. [...] Continue reading Dad The second DVD out of the box as I work through my birthday present to myself, is JJ Abram’s Star Trek from last year (2009). Taking this film as my subject here also gives me an opportunity to brush off and republish my original review. (‘Review’ doesn’t seem quite the right word, but judge [...] Continue reading Live, floss and prosper As my own birthday present to myself, I bought a box of DVDs (mostly Science-Fiction related). I anticipate working my way through them bit by succulent bit (inclding, of course, all the Extra Material) and boning out some favourite quotes. Which I plan to share here in postcard form. As chance would have it, [...] Continue reading Human teenagers I am reading my birthday presents, two books by Nigel Slater. A big, fat, beautifully illustrated hardback called The Kitchen Diaries and a slim paperback called Toast. The former is about seasonal foods in a combination of diary entries and recepies, the latter a biographical sketch of the author’s childhood in the 60s told [...] Continue reading The Kitchen Diaries & Toast (I do know that’s not quite the lyric.) The following picture illustrates my general feelings regarding my birthday. I think the red things are strawberries and the brown doodahs are made of chocolate.  Enjoy! Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out. Anton [...] Continue reading Another year older (and deeper in debt) |
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