At long last, my mother is a regular reader of my blog (and not an occasional reader, as before, even with Jim West’s open letter). You see, one of my nephews thought it was high time she had proper internet access. So what did she do? She went and spent an hour or so tracking back through my blog. And what did she read? ‘Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or, How to Organise a Prophetic Sausage Fest’. Of course, I was visiting her today too, so you can imagine how our discussion went. But I am not one to back down, and sought to explain why it is not purely 14-year old porn. Or, if it is, then so is Ezekiel … Which she seemed to accept, reluctantly. All the same, as I left, she said, ‘don’t post smut on your blog, Roland, and keep your language clean’.
Welcome mum.
11 February, 2011 at 1:21 am
Sigh. the day my mom gets interwebz may be the day I stop blogging. Sigh.
11 February, 2011 at 6:11 am
Clicked and got: “politicaljesus.wordpress.com is no longer available”. That was quick…
11 February, 2011 at 10:22 am
Its politicaljesus.com now.
11 February, 2011 at 7:51 am
When I was a teenager playing club cricket in Kuala Lumpur one of our bowlers was the Aussie Johnny Port, who habitually used the expression ‘Chase my aunt Fanny up a gum tree’ on and off the field whenever something took him by surprise. One day my late mother heard Porty say this, and she was horrified that such filth could be spoken by someone who played the gentleman’s game of cricket….
11 February, 2011 at 8:49 am
The strange thing is that I don’t think mum is all that surprised; she would simply rather not know.
11 February, 2011 at 5:01 pm
VM – as youwill see, my link too is politicaljesus.com
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