Face the music WHILE he was a student at Glasgow University reader Justin Clapham shared a west end flat with a pal who owned an electric guitar which he proudly placed on a stand in the living room. Nothing strange about that, of course. What was strange, however, was that the pal couldn’t play guitar.
So Justin inquired why he bought the thing. “I’m a pretty decent accordion player,” explained the pal, “but that’s never impressed any woman I’ve fancied. However, they do tend to like guitar players.
” Concluded the pal: “So, as far as my love life is concerned, I’ve decided that it’s better to own an electric guitar I can’t play, than own an accordion I can.” Social fella THE ever-creative Diary is devising prequels to famous books. John Mulholland suggests a non-fiction work about an American chap famous for his radical politics .
The prequel to The Autobiography of Malcolm X would, of course, be titled The Autobiography of Malcolm Twitter. Animal magic LITERATURE continued. Ruth Buchan from Shawlands tells us she’s reading a novel about an immortal dog.
“It’s impossible to put down,” she admits. David Donaldson is intrigued by this tradesman's vehicle in Toronto. “It's like a joiner's version of Ten Green Bottles,” he says.
“Eventually ending up with 'None Fingers Left'.” (Image: Contributed) Animal tragic EXHAUSTED reader Paddy Wilson tells us that he stayed up all night watching coverage of the American Presidential election. His .