tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post9004755570069936998..comments2024-01-14T08:50:45.677+00:00Comments on The Richard Madeley Appreciation Society: 'In The Tabernacle of the Bald God' by Martin AmisUncle Dick Madeleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-90318915877732388232008-02-17T20:25:00.000+00:002008-02-17T20:25:00.000+00:00A wonderful read, really like the man himself (whi...A wonderful read, really like the man himself (which of course it was).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-55964237753434304032008-02-07T18:29:00.000+00:002008-02-07T18:29:00.000+00:00Lola, I have fixed that myself. It is terrible tha...Lola, I have fixed that myself. It is terrible that he made that mistake. It's not as though he's got a Dennis of his own to blame. I apologise for him and will demand adequate compensation. Perhaps he'll write me a novel about Dennis and Soviet repressions.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-19375811544979266732008-02-07T17:19:00.000+00:002008-02-07T17:19:00.000+00:00Touché, I have now also been accused of not being ...Touché, I have now also been accused of not being real, and doesn't it feel strange? But he could at least have got my name right. Lolo indeed. Bloody professional writers.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08929723020089651115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-19406225145469104432008-02-07T15:21:00.000+00:002008-02-07T15:21:00.000+00:00Of all the accolades a chap could aspire to, world...Of all the accolades a chap could aspire to, world's most authoritative website on 'feather-tickled testicles' was never one to cross my mind. I think though, you have already begun to build your reputation...what with people already looking to you for such information!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-27549198632485792502008-02-07T15:07:00.000+00:002008-02-07T15:07:00.000+00:00LMRT, well you know what you need to do. Write som...LMRT, well you know what you need to do. Write some posts about 'feather-tickled testicles' and the visitors will come. You could become the world's most authoritative website on 'feather-tickled testicles'. Of course, our discussing this had probably gives me that distinction already.<BR/><BR/>Lee, no, it's: RUN AWAY!!!<BR/><BR/>Ax, I agree and so I. I also agree in Finnish, as, I'm sure, do you.<BR/><BR/>Ma, how could you ever leave me in the first place? I *heart* you too. Don't go leaving me again or I'll send Dennis after you. Ever seen 'The Fugitive'? That's what it will be like for you, being chased by a one-armed man.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-42584699941891542332008-02-07T02:15:00.000+00:002008-02-07T02:15:00.000+00:00How I've missed you, Richard. I think that I will ...How I've missed you, Richard. I think that I will have to start reading you regularly again to lift my old spirits. <BR/><BR/>Sorry Judy, but I have to say this.<BR/><BR/>You're brilliant, Richard! I *heart* you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-29052894342930128692008-02-07T00:13:00.000+00:002008-02-07T00:13:00.000+00:00Amazing. This section of your very split personali...Amazing. This section of your very split personality approves deeplyAxmxZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08304725990705092465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-41964614511656920442008-02-06T23:46:00.000+00:002008-02-06T23:46:00.000+00:00Ah, the giant kitten, Kitten Kong. Run, run away.Ah, the giant kitten, Kitten Kong. Run, run away.leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562641539954768235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-88485217112415778522008-02-06T19:50:00.000+00:002008-02-06T19:50:00.000+00:00I've had a couple of people search for info on Ste...I've had a couple of people search for info on Stephen's arm but I rarely have people directed to my blog after searching for anything.<BR/><BR/>A fair few are water related, I've had one looking for Kate Beckinsale but today, the most has been looking for Stephen's arm - not that it's subsequently dropped off!<BR/><BR/>I fear this is due to my blog's unpopularity (not through content - I hope - but by marketing and public unfamiliarity), I think, with my stats as they are, some traffic from feather-tickled testicles would be welcomed.<BR/><BR/>They must hold you in high regard as a fountain of knowledge, a mine of useless (and sometimes useful) information, an abyss of trivia, a...puddle I happened to step in last week that turned out to have enough space to hide a Mk 941-U SSBN 'Typhoon' Submarine of...knowing things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-19495820977671812862008-02-06T18:58:00.000+00:002008-02-06T18:58:00.000+00:00LMRT, I can't confirm that about people looking fo...LMRT, I can't confirm that about people looking for Stephen and his arm. I don't notice there being that many, to be honest. I get many more people looking up phrases such as (just to take the most recent as an example): 'tickle men's testicles with a feather'. I don't know why people think I might know the answer but Google sends them here.<BR/><BR/>Selena, I'm beginning to regret posting Martin's piece. It's putting my own writing to shame. He's such a bloody show off. It will be grim tomorrow when I post something about Oddie, Fry, or, indeed, 'tickling men's testicles with a feather'Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-33075290954730242772008-02-06T18:16:00.000+00:002008-02-06T18:16:00.000+00:00The deal was struck there and then, and this is th...<I>The deal was struck there and then, and this is the result."</I><BR/><BR/>So you see, it really is all about secret handshakes and inner circles. <BR/><BR/>Marvellous tempo, blinding vocabulary, eloquent asides! If average imagination is sufficient for a witness to interpret the moon as a spacecraft, it is all the more remarkable to note that Martin Amis never mistakes the <I>persona</I> for the man beneath.<BR/><BR/>This is a powerful and close encounter. I had to shield my eyes from the light - but I’m still wondering who came out on top....<BR/><BR/>DreamySelena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-73846117930925856132008-02-06T17:08:00.000+00:002008-02-06T17:08:00.000+00:00It seems, from the google search terms to my blog,...It seems, from the google search terms to my blog, that people rely on your accounts of time spent with your close showbiz friends such as Fry and Oddie.<BR/><BR/>Only yesterday did I have somebody searching for information related to poor Fry and his arm, your name being specifically mentioned.<BR/><BR/>And of course, thinking some of your readers are one and the same person is just preposterous.<BR/><BR/>I'm Brian and so is my wife!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-21279524017621261082008-02-06T15:34:00.000+00:002008-02-06T15:34:00.000+00:00Bertas, I felt terrible about that when I read it....Bertas, I felt terrible about that when I read it. In the whole, I think I came out okay. I'm not sure about sending people running away in tears. And I wish he hadn't made so much about my wig. It is only temporary and I'm already getting new growth beneath it.<BR/><BR/>Sean, the 'only surviving individualist'? I like that. I might well use it for my next banner, or put it on a tshirt or underwear. I am individual and I think Martin captured that quite well. Though I'm fairly well read in modernist literature, I've not come across Djuna Barnes. I see from wikipedia that she was admired by T.S. Eliot, which is quite a coincidence since he was quite instrumental in my writing career in the 1970s.<BR/><BR/>Mutley, I'm not sure about sober and Judy has been complaining that somebody stole a cacti from her dressing room... Perhaps the whole thing makes sense now. But if cacti help him write, I should try it myself. I worry, though, that I'll get heavily prickled lips when I try to light the other end.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-73786464689757179612008-02-06T11:09:00.000+00:002008-02-06T11:09:00.000+00:00You are lucky he was both sober and not as high as...You are lucky he was both sober and not as high as a kite when he interviewed you. Amis is notorious for getting high - by sucking Mexican cactii - during interviews. Or for just being rolling drunk. I must say he has a real insight into you though Old Bean! I am sorry about the wig thing though -that does make you seem a bit silly. Its odd that he thinks we are the same person... as if Judy would marry a dog!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-51934328903783027532008-02-06T10:56:00.000+00:002008-02-06T10:56:00.000+00:00At the first moment I thought: This is the school ...At the first moment I thought: This is the school of Djuna Barnes. But, of course, it's more. <BR/>Let me render more precisely:<BR/>To his orthodox contemporaries who would never had sipped a drop of the essential inheritent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything - i.e. Omnium - he may seem a semi-madman.<BR/>De facto, Richard Madeley is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. <BR/>And that's at least as true as I am far from exaggerating.Sean Jeatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08978285783271305489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888062989539166264.post-10877086027674046172008-02-06T09:32:00.000+00:002008-02-06T09:32:00.000+00:00Oh this is brilliant Richard I love it :) And I th...Oh this is brilliant Richard I love it :) <BR/>And I think there are worse names to be called then a product of one's mind... :) <BR/>Although you could have checked your flies :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com