Despite Marie's excellent epitaph for Dick Heads last week, Richard Armitage's head mixes metaphors and limps on thanks to Deb, who has provided this picture of Dicky as Guy FawkesClaude Monet in The Impressionists. Will the rest of Armitage's Army overcome the attack of the vapours over RA's new publicity pic that seems to have possessed them of late, or will this be the last of the Dick Heads?
Whatever the answer - stay tuned, loyal fans of Dick Heads - you can haiku to your heart's content with this one.
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March 23, 2009 | Reply
My problem with supporting the Dick Head posts is mostly to do with not being able to write haikus than any lack of interest. I'm certainly not succumbing to the the vapours (weren't they the band in the 80s who did 'turning japanese'?)
March 23, 2009 | Reply
Hony-hony-hon.
But of course, I speak
French, not Spanish.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
I've returned to you
To show off my hot moustache
And small goatee beard.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
Deliberately,
I appear ugly. It worked
For Nicole Kidman...
March 23, 2009 | Reply
a small scrap of beard
and even long Monet locks
can't hide who is smiling
(sorry, they do not get better, but at the very least i have the cadence correct i think)
March 23, 2009 | Reply
"a small scrap of beard / and even long Monet locks / can't hide who is smiling (sorry, they do not get better, but at the very least i have the cadence correct i think)"
Haiku tutor writes: you're one syllable too long in the final line. Suggest changing "who is" to "who's" for haiku perfection.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
That was The Vapors, who despite the spelling were an English band. Weirdly enough, one of their number was Edward Bazalgette, who's now a TV director and producer. He recently produced a documentary on sewer engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette who is the the great great grandfather of Peter Bazalgette (Edward's third cousin), who for a long time was the force behind the UK branch of Endemol - the TV production company that gave as Big Brother, among other things.
Who says it's not educational round here?
You are, incidentally, perfectly entitled to write anything on a Dick Head, whether it's haikus, love sonnets or limericks.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
Should I be admitting how fascinating I find this? I've just spent the last few weeks reading up on John Snow whose famous cholera map of Broad Street in Soho eventually lead to the science of epidemiology. And, of course, Bazalgette's sewers also helped banish cholera from London. (I recommend The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, a highly accessible and interesting book.)
Weirdly enough, one of their number was Edward Bazalgette, who's now a TV director and producer. He recently produced a documentary on sewer engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette who is the the great great grandfather of Peter Bazalgette (Edward's third cousin), who for a long time was the force behind the UK branch of Endemol.....
March 23, 2009 | Reply
That's all right. I was weirdly fascinated by John Snow, because I used to work on Lexington Street, on the top end of which was the John Snow pub. It's not a great pub, but it's got a pump handle and maps in it, which is more than most.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
a small scrap of beard
and even long Monet locks
can't hide who's smiling
i'll get there yet - thanks marie...
March 23, 2009 | Reply
Twenty years from now
Elijah Wood will accept
Time has not been kind.
March 23, 2009 | Reply
And the irony is, John Snow was a teetotaler. . . .Lexington Street, on the top end of which was the John Snow pub. It's not a great pub, but it's got a pump handle and maps in it, which is more than most."
March 24, 2009 | Reply
"And the irony is, John Snow was a teetotaler. . . "
In memory of this, the beer in the John Snow is lousy.
(I work on Poland Street, on the site of the old workhouse)
March 24, 2009 | Reply
""And the irony is, John Snow was a teetotaler. . . "In memory of this, the beer in the John Snow is lousy.(I work on Poland Street, on the site of the old workhouse)"
Don't try to hide, Stu_N. I know it's you.
March 24, 2009 | Reply
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