Slough

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! 
It isn't fit for humans now, 
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death! 


Come, bombs and blow to smithereens 
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens, 
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans, 
Tinned minds, tinned breath.


Mess up the mess they call a town- 
A house for ninety-seven down 
And once a week a half a crown 
For twenty years. 


And get that man with double chin 
Who'll always cheat and always win, 
Who washes his repulsive skin 
In women's tears: 


And smash his desk of polished oak 
And smash his hands so used to stroke 
And stop his boring dirty joke 
And make him yell. 


But spare the bald young clerks who add 
The profits of the stinking cad; 
It's not their fault that they are mad, 
They've tasted Hell. 


It's not their fault they do not know 
The birdsong from the radio, 
It's not their fault they often go 
To Maidenhead


And talk of sport and makes of cars 
In various bogus-Tudor bars 
And daren't look up and see the stars 
But belch instead. 


In labour-saving homes, with care 
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air 
And paint their nails. 


Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough 
To get it ready for the plough. 
The cabbages are coming now; 
The earth exhales.




John Betjeman 1937

'The New Demands of Modern Warfare Must Be Met'

This is the link!

Clara

Apple Title Block

It's a wee one.

Family Guy Does Generic

Scene from an apartment in your mind.

A Defeated People

Training

Chicken Nugget

Spotted by my brother on the side of a fried chicken shop in Dublin.

The Carriers

'When word of a crisis breaks out in Washington, it's no accident that the first question that comes to everyone's lips is: 
"Where's the nearest carrier?"' 

President Bill Clinton, March 12, 1993 aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Square Peg

 

This ad was released in 1998. I was 16. It's aged well.

Rough Loop

This scene terrified me when I was little. The idea that your attempts to kill something are making it stronger is pretty unsettling. It seems to resonate a little with the current war on terror..

Déjà vu?

Have you seen this house before? I'd swear I have.

Maybe because it looks a bit American to me? Some kind of media memory?