First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog

4 Responses

1. Lucas Orme says:

   March 18, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   I was cruising at thirty (between speed bumps) last Christmas and a fat man balancing a cake in each hand bumbled into the road without due care and attention. I screeched to a halt as though some sexually-repressed failed geography teacher had tapped his clipboard on my dashboard and started my four letter word tirade only to find it was Johnny Vegas. Twat.
2. Daniel Taghioff says:

   March 19, 2008 at 12:20 am

   I once was out jogging, and stopped to help a wheezing lady push her broken down car. I commented, rather daftly, that she was the spitting image of that woman out of four weddings and a funeral. She gave me a slightly haunted look, so I let it lie and ran on, hearing her wheezing as I left.

   It was a year later that I learned that the very same lady from four weddings and a funeral (she was in the opening scene with Hugh swearing at his alarm clock) had died of an Asthma attack. Perhaps brought on by London air pollution, who knows, or maybe just by the stresses and strains of recognition.
3. St Trinians says:

   March 19, 2008 at 1:11 pm

   Long before one was old enough to know better, weaving home along the streets of Notting Hill at dawn after an enjoyable dins, the then studentmobile’s solenoid seized up …

   Diplomatic protection officers parked in a nearby patrol car quite rightly looked on with mirth, as the student tried in vain to revive the offending car part by using a Haines car manual ( 1001 uses for ) to ‘thonk’ one end of a bespoke metal fence pole ( kept aboard for just such occasions ) the other of which firmly poked the diva-esque solenoid hidden beside the gearbox

   Adding to the comedy, eventually two street sweeps in regulation orange overalls very kindly offered to push start. It was only when they had pushed the car down Kensington Church Street and half way around Kensington Square to no avail that the errant driver remembered - ahem - that one was meant to turn the ignition key…

   Were it perfectly legal, there are few republican hunt sabs ( so strangely keen to reside in the RBK&C ) whom one would not sharply TDI accelerate across, any speed humps would add to the sport
4. Prose Before Hos says:

   March 25, 2008 at 12:39 am

   It Went Into A Four Piece Ikea Set and Down Payment For A Volvo…

   The Article: From the Guardian, Where has all the rage gone? by Tariq Ali — a leader during the 1960’s, involved in the New Left.
   The Text: A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and …