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April 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: (This) Man’s Best Friend

The dog took a shit the way he usually does out of his bum and on to the street. Doing his business in public – I bend to collect it, open my big bag to get a smaller bag and my business card falls out right next to his shit. Both of us dropping things […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (This) Man’s Best Friend, Animal Farm, Dog, George Orwell, Man’s Best Friend, Poem, Poem: (This) Man’s Best Friend ·

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March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Orwellian Equality

When everyone learned that David Cameron got an absentee blowjob from the carved off face of a porcine animal it was 2015 – it wasn’t the worst thing that David Cameron has done. And besides, many of us had already seen the 2011 TV show episode satirising it all and had not rested on our […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1984, Animal Farm, Big Brothers, David Cameron, George Orwell, Orwellian Equality, pig, Poem, Poem: Orwellian Equality ·

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August 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1875

Pink Floyd, Animals (1977) Often my favourite Pink Floyd album is the one I’m listening to – it’s hard to pick a favourite. Just as often, these days, I’m fairly much over the band; done to death. And though there are albums by Floyd that seem to stand to the side (Atom Heart Mother) I […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, Animal Farm, Animals, Atom Heart Mother, Dogs, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Sheep, Vinyl, Wish You Were Here ·

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