BOZ MAN!

17 year-old Anthony Baker was a kid like no other... for when danger or [conditions to be decided] arose, he would transform into BOZ MAN!

Reaching into a body of work from much-loved author Charles Dickens representing all that was published under the pseudonym 'Boz', from 1833 to, broadly, 1836/37, young Tony would [actions to be decided, eg: physically leafing through one of seven paperback books selected from the small trolley at his heels] take on the character of a fictional subject therein, or [range of options to be decided] and [exact benefits and outcomes to be decided].

Well, that's all sorted then.

BEER - 6, COLD

I heard a question posed thus: "When the Polar Bear's wet, your beer is cold - what price cold beer dispense?"

BOZ!

Quietly fascinated as I am by the repeatedly accounted-for early literary life of Charles Dickens, of his Boz period, brief as it were, I am minded to think on a story, a telling of this time; a biopic, film, and a roaring musical stage production - BOZ! - including such numbers as:

She Was Only My Publisher's Daughter

That's A Whale Of A Gaol

For Illustration Purposes / Give It Your Best Shot, Seymour!

You'll Have It By Tomorrow (Magazine Day)

Bad Debt Dad

What I Love Most About My Wife Is Her Sister

Aint London Funny, But Capital Sad?

(The Meaning Of) Neat

Blacking My Character

and

Aint London Funny, But Capital Sad? [Reprise]

L O X Y

a quasi-anthropomorphic comedy about an alpha male urban fox whose years at the top and relationships are fucked up in the pursuit of inexpressible ideals... set to great music.

Ta-da!

Today someone referred a few times to that 'ta-da!' moment. Got me thinking - who was the first person to go 'ta-da!'?

Jesus?

Or God before him.

Or perhaps it was more recent than that.

The inventor of the bra.

GENERATING ANGST

A fabulous gift and a weirdly frightening task [customizedcoupland].

With eight inputs my go-to was Random, Wikipedia. And the (honest) list (snugly):

• SM UB-34
• Japanese Left Army
• DNF
• Hopewell, Connecticut
• Ludeasa River
• Homotrixa
• Solar Eclipse of April 30, 1957
• Nano-Tera

But I wanted to meld a part of me with the book; why, vainly, wouldn't I... this book about how it feels to read a book?

Hard!

And opted for a memory off [sic] Toronto; something so entirely far from the future that it would nuzzle hilariously the storylines. But it kind of slinked and whirred full circle: a squirrel in its pumpkin velodrome; and became, rested, a couplandic image after all. Perhaps.

Thanks MJ - really, a gift.

BEER - 5, JOY

Welcome.

Wherever you like.

Beneath the old photo of Brel. Ashtrays, beer bottles.

Great beer.