Unfinished thoughts archive

The not quite real blog. Another unoriginal non-exclusive?

Another idea I’ll no doubt never get round to following up: I wondered, on my way into work, whether I could create an entirely fictional blog, complete with fictional hangers-on leaving comments for this latter day Pooter (whose diary I see is already webbed at http://www.diaryofanobody.net/).

I also wondered what my ticket number would be for this one at the ideas booth.

August 8th, 2006, posted by Neil in Unfinished thoughts · 3 Comments

Man chases whale

Not entirely sure if this is an original thought - loosely, it’s some sort of game in which the aim is to summarise the plot, or key aspect of a film, book, or play. I guess there’s no sense in which you can win the game, you just have to content yourself with a self-satisfied feeling when you think of a particularly amusing or clever summary.

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August 25th, 2005, posted by Neil in Unfinished thoughts · 2 Comments

Half-thoughts, half-baked

I can’t be the only one who suffers from incomplete thoughtness - that infuriating complaint whereby you have part of an idea, but never seem to have the time to get round to the rest of it. It’s something all geniuses have to put up with suppose. And lazy people. Those of us, I mean, who don’t have the patience to…

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August 24th, 2005, posted by Neil in Unfinished thoughts · 1 Comment