Stare Into Space

Gerry’s Big Day Out

Oddly, the sun shone. Blue and cloudless skies and the warmest day of the year for the day I planned to spend about five hours in the cinema. Caught Malick’s The Tree Of Life to see what all the fuss was about. And I count myself in the ‘impressed’ column. I feel the film worked [...]

My Local Park

  ATTENTION! ATTENTION! THE MINISTRY OF PARKS HAS DEEMED YOU GUILTY OF FACECRIME. REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE—PARK PATROL HAS BEEN DISPATCHED.   Posted via Gerry Hayes on Posterous as I’m off my arse and away from a computer.  

A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Book: Room

I’m currently reading Room by Emma Donoghue. Room is the story of a five-year old boy, Jack, and his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. Jack has spent his entire life in this eleven feet square world. He was born here and has never been outside. He and his mother are prisoners. The story [...]

Gerry Hayes

Gerry Hayes

I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and debase my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.

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    • Personally, I like awards shows but then I've always been interested in lists of people and organisations to which celebrities are grateful.
    • When I am President For Life, anyone putting 'fancy' toppings on their pancakes will be shipped to toil ironically in the Jif Lemon mines.
    • Jesus would have been pleased to see all Twitter come together through the pancake, the foodstuff Satan tried to tempt him with.
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