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jstark47 · Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:23 am

sv-wolf wrote:Thanks guys, Yes there is a book hovering somewhere. I want to do a long motorcycle journey and write it up a travel book.

You'd have a good start if you'd finish that doggone four corners trip story!!!!!!

(...running and ducking for cover now...)

Nibblet99 · Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:43 am

jstark47 wrote:(...running and ducking for cover now...)

You're lucky, we don't have many guns here, so you'd probably only need to duck, till outside blender range

#493 Unread post by **sv-wolf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:12 am

Hi Nibblet

Blenders? Oh, you remember that, huh!

Well blenders are better any day than guns (so long as they are not plugged in, that is.) They're not quite as phallic as guns so maybe they're never going to take off among hormonally driven redneck communities. Shame really!

But maybe the British state should be thinking about arming its police with blenders. If cops in this country can be expected to ride bicycles and drive minis, then they can carry blenders without ruining their image. You could fit a nice little holster on one of their belts and...

Yeah! Yeah. I know.

Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:13 pm

Finally, the 2007 enduroindia video has been released. For anyone who's interested here's a shortened version. Click on the link below, then scroll down to find the 'cowboys and Indians' links which take you straight to the vid.

http://www.cassproductions.co.uk/news03.html

Wow! Brings back some amazing memories!

Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:40 am

The last two paragraphs in your story reminded me a bit of a book called Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

I'll have to agree with everyone about your writing skills too. I look forward to your blog entries.
Now thats enough ego inflation get back to work and write us another entry

#496 Unread post by **sv-wolf** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:11 am

jstark47 wrote:
sv-wolf wrote:Thanks guys, Yes there is a book hovering somewhere. I want to do a long motorcycle journey and write it up a travel book.
You'd have a good start if you'd finish that doggone four corners trip story!!!!!!

(...running and ducking for cover now...)

OK, OK Mr Stark. You've got your wish. I'll get back to it. It's only missing the last three days and I've written a lot of it up already. I've just got to find where in the hell I've filed it.

#497 Unread post by **sv-wolf** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:40 am

fireguzzi wrote:The last two paragraphs in your story reminded me a bit of a book called Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

Damn! You caught me out there fg. I was a great fan of Hesse's novels in my twenties. (Back in the early 1970s you had to be. It was compulsory.

) Most people at that time raved about "Steppenwolf" but I was never able to identify with its hero and couldn't get on with it. "Narzis and Goldmund" though, was my favourite book for years. It's about how we can heal the deep wound that culture has made in our human psyches - the split between the heart and the mind, the wild and the rational. I see riding a motorcycle in precisely those terms and it's maybe one of the reasons I love it so much.

"Siddhartha" was based on the life and teachings of the Buddha. Although I'm not in the slightest bit religious, the way I think about the world has been deeply influenced by Buddhist philosophy and practice. Hesse describes his own version of that in the last pages of "Siddhartha."

So, you're absolutely right. The similarity is no coincidence.

jstark47 · Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:30 am

sv-wolf wrote:
jstark47 wrote:
sv-wolf wrote:Thanks guys, Yes there is a book hovering somewhere. I want to do a long motorcycle journey and write it up a travel book.
You'd have a good start if you'd finish that doggone four corners trip story!!!!!!

(...running and ducking for cover now...)
OK, OK Mr Stark. You've got your wish. I'll get back to it. It's only missing the last three days and I've written a lot of it up already. I've just got to find where in the hell I've filed it.

I want you to know that I only nag you 'cause it was a darned good story, I enjoyed the parts I read very much, and I wanted to see how it turned out (well, duh........ you made it back to Hitchin..... I think.......didn't you?)

#499 Unread post by **sv-wolf** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:10 am

jstark47 wrote: I want you to know that I only nag you 'cause it was a darned good story, I enjoyed the parts I read very much, and I wanted to see how it turned out (well, duh........ you made it back to Hitchin..... I think.......didn't you?)

LOL! That's OK Mr Stark. You're allowed to nag (and flattery will get you everywhere!)

I'm working on it.

It's coming along.

Nibblet99 · Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:28 am

sv-wolf wrote:Hi Nibblet

Blenders? Oh, you remember that, huh!

Well blenders are better any day than guns (so long as they are not plugged in, that is.) They're not quite as phallic as guns so maybe they're never going to take off among hormonally driven redneck communities. Shame really!

But maybe the British state should be thinking about arming its police with blenders. If cops in this country can be expected to ride bicycles and drive minis, then they can carry blenders without ruining their image. You could fit a nice little holster on one of their belts and...

Yeah! Yeah. I know.

Sorry I've been busy for a while, only just got back on

How could I forget the blender, it just kinda fitted your personality perfectly some how.
I just know I'm going to have dreams of policemen chasing & lobbing blenders at me now, the comic notion is just stuck in my head.

If I had any video editing skills/software I'd probably be amending world war clips with blender ammunition for sheer amusement