Welcoming an old friend

The latest addition to my blog links is the verdant underground which is run by a dear old friend of mine MC Smith.

MC Smith is one of only two bloggers I link to who knew me in the real world before I started the Poor Mouth (the other is Gert at Gertamtkuntswerk who I used to work with).

Smith and I go back almost 30 years meeting at university. We also shared a house for almost two years in the latter half of the 80s, during which he avoided braying me with a frying pan!

If you like music, with art and politics, give me old marra's blog a visit

Meme time again

Memes spread like wildfire through the blogosphere. This one has come to me on its fifth iteration thanks to Bryan over at Why Now?, one of my favourite blogs.

The participation rules are simple:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote


I'm not sure I desperately want the award thingy but it is the first one I've got since I won second prize in the "Romford's Most Stupid 1995" so beggars can't be choosers...

Who to choose? I like all the blogs on my blogroll (wouldn't be there otherwise!) so it is a hard choice. I will go for:

Redwine, Tyger, Matt Murrell over at An Insomniac, Snowflake and Roland over at But I am a liberal

And may god bless all who sail in this meme!

And the award for 20,000th visitor to the Poor Mouth goes to a person from Leeds looking at my Robyn Hitchcock photos. (in his best Apu voice) "Thankyou, come again"