Borussia Dortmund V Legia Warsaw.

Legia became the first side to score four goals in a Champions League fixture and end up on the losing side.

Rugby score..... any defenders play tonight

this is what we want

Hey Vel.

Hi Bodil - were you in Borussia tonight for the game...?

No. Oddly enough I did go there in the early 70s. Lots of honest blonde endeavour and no crowd violence whatsoever.  Made me realise that there was bound to be a resurgence in German nationalism and expansionism in the late 2010s.

Even so, you must commend the Gerries for keeping the ticket prices at but a fraction of the cost of ARSENAL MATCHES.

I was just considering the great triumvirate of late 20thC British SF/Fantasy.  Ballard dead, Aldiss not well. Moorcock losing bits due to diabetes etc...  Bit like Scottish football I suppose, except very much less terminal.

Oh god yes - ticket prices - Sky (and BT Sport) subscribers shovel so much financial **** into the maws of Premiership owners, players and agents - eventually there will be a reckoning.  Hopefully with lots of televised hanging, drawing and quartering.  Hey, they could execute in football stadiums. 

It will happen in the lifetime of some our readers.

Well I tended to read flashy writers like Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury myself, before moving on to WATCHING TELLY DETECTIVES...although I enjoyed BILLION YEAR SPREE.

I bought all the DANGEROUS VISIONS books but skipped all the short stories...only read the intros...

I kind of joined up with Moorcock in Texas but I got too drunk so I forgot my security code - but they do send me a happy birthday on my birthday.  Nice.  For years I worked around where Ballard lived and often intended to take him out for lunch but never got round to it.  He would have loved it, and inserted me as a person-from-Porlock marker.  I think I will contact Aldiss this week - just to thank him.  He did a lot EU euro imagining - events overtook.  Expect his obituary soon.

two legs good etc

Well...I never had oysters and Guinness with Beckett or anything, but I did once pat Jock Stein on the back...

Shhh ...  Ellison is notoriously litigious. Not sure he is still alive but his lawyers certainly are.  The Dangerous Visions 1&2 (Again) are as good a place as any to start SF.

But slightly left behind ...  As are we all, sooner or later.

He's a bit like yerself, Bodil -- he hates everything, including STAR TREK, SEINFELD, and HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FC.

Sounds a FINE kinda person.  Me and Donald will welcome him to the New World Order.

eeee...Well it's the SAME OLD ORDER isn't it, going back to Babylon n ting...

And you'll need to have connections to one of the NWO - just mention my name and you'll be fine. I've added it to the doorman's list just in case.  Can't be too careful.

I holiday in Troon with the people who make counterfeit Sunny D, so I'm well in, there.

Wink.

I've felt so depressed for the last 15 minutes...with no more photos to post...g'night Bodil...

Jibber****jabber  Stay strong.

I lost it.