Monday, January 21, 2008

Day VII

Returning from an impromptu visit to London and Reading at the weekend, today thrust me back into the blog with all the force of an arthritic grandmother of 6 ... a bit like my grandmother really.

It had to happen sooner or later, and despite the notable distraction of a headline in The Guardian involving the positively alluring topics of Scientology AND Nazism, I still couldn't resist going with the Daily Mail!

My truly ironic 'love-affair' with the
Daily Mail is well publicised, primarily by myself but, I was told it would be appearing in a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by William Hanmer-Lloyd entitled "All Daily Mail writers must die!" after telling the man himself the hilarious anecdote of Daily Mail Danger: one man's battle against pensioners; time; and, in the secondary (Double Danger) and conculding (Do or Die) of the DMD Trilogy, all conceivable odds.



Today's photograph is the first to be available in Gert Lush High Resolution, innit? (I believe we have already established that it is.) Be warned, it is larger than the entire of Staffordshire but, this burgeoning increase in resolution should allow those who wish to read what is on the door the opportunity to do so!

Today's headline, as has already been mentioned is courtesy of the Daily Mail and concerns Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and the issues of Law and Order (not the long-running American crime drama shown on Channel 5 after people have switched off following the conclusion of C.S.I. Grimsby), as well as the far more important issues of Kebab Shops; what she eats and with whom.

The headline, trimmed slightly of extra words, reads: "Home Secretary admits streets are not safe." although the lack of direct quotations within the Mail's sensational headline (and subsequent article) indicates that it is unlikely she actually said that and the whole thing based in a Kebab shop in Peckham has been blown out of proportion like a deformed balloon filled largely with hot air.

Today's location is in honour of these take-away origins of the whole story and is Captain Cod, a local Fish and Chip providing establishment. Sadly they don't wrap fish and chips in Newspaper anymore, absorbing grease is one of few suitable purposes for the Daily Mail!

A(nother) totally irrelevant (surely not!) aside from my weekend away takes the form of this charming blog: It isn't serious; it isn't really related to Photography either but, in bringing it to you within days of it's foundation, I am showing you something from the cutting edge! You saw it here first: Animals in Suits.

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