I know, terrible terrible form to post two vidjos in a row, but you just must love D’unbelievables. You must[1]
Sheer genius!
But second of all, something more serious. I don’t know how many of you have heard about the murders in England. Five bodies have been found so far in Suffolk, and so far all the identified women have been prostitutes. But is that any reason for TV3 news to never use the word women in their report? Just constantly repeating the fact that they were prostitutes. As that was everything they were, and everything they could possibly be.
Crappy news
Thirdly, those two murders in Finglas today, well yer man, Mr. Big, is a fella at work’s neighbour. That’s me, connected to crime lords on all sides.
Fourthly, and back to the light-hearted side of life. We have a new cat at home in Sligo. The sister sent me a text message with its picture. A little tabby kitten that they have called Taz because they found it outside Veritas.
Thud…
That was the sound the heavy club made as it connected with the head. The body jerked, and slumped back.
And it was done, unheard, unseen: the perfect end, a perfect solution, a perfect story.
But, as the dwarfs say, where there is trouble you will always find a troll.
The troll saw.
Relations between dwarfs and trolls have never been all that great, but, with the death of an influential dwarf community leader it seems that things are beginning to escalate. Koom Valley may have been a battle a long time ago, but if Commander Vimes doesn’t manage to figure out who killed Grag Hamcrusher then it may just be re-enacted on the streets of Ankh-Morpork.
Vimes and the Watch have always been my favourite Discworld books, and this is a great addition to the series. You have all the usual humour, footnotes and all. But you also have the deeper meanings and social commentary that you can chose to ignore if you want.
What is really fantastic about the Discworld books however is the characters, and here Vimes is at his cynical weary best, although also concerned with ensuring he is home every day at 6 o’clock exactly, in order to read his son Where’s my cow?. All the usual Watch members are back, as well as some new recruits, notably Sally the new vampire on the force.
If I didn’t have a huge stack of books that I want to get through I’d've flicked back to the first page and started reading this all over again. Great book
Ah, youtube, you never let me down, do you. For lo, the footage of Mr. O’Callaghan has surfaced, uploaded by Georgi Casy, where more rugby-type vidjos can be found:
Let me just chortle[1] away to myself for a while now…
