From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 1

I wrote the following on Tuesday 27 April 2004:

I have five cigarettes to last me till morning:
But 18 bottles of beer

The Kropotkin cryptic this week vexes me. The day today is Tuesday already and I still have two more clues to get. How utterly irksome. There is nothing more pathetic to me or so lonely as an incomplete crossword puzzle. Moreover, its wretchedness is only matched by the fact that I find so inconsequential a thing as an incomplete crossword puzzle so pitiable.

What a strange and sad man I once was. Well, I’m off to drink some cider and play some darts.

Obesity: no longer a handicap, specially for drunkards with very sharp projectiles

About the Author

Tama is (according to the Electoral Roll) an essayist and sometime pamphleteer living in Auckland.