Being Beta

Exercises in the higher banter with One of 26. Elsewhere called 'poet of adland'. By a whipple-squeezer. Find out why being beta is the new alpha: betarish at googlemail dot com

Saturday, February 08, 2020

Listorama: Facebook status updates vol 55

BetaRish (is)...


lurch yikes lurch >> my stomach upon seeing my to-do list


Loops of duty


Soaked boots, wet socks


Time is a killer too


Can you be addicted to pastry? Asking for no one near this keyboard oh no


I’ve started reading a book called ‘Be More Pirate’, and my initial reaction is, why can’t it be ‘Be More Trash Panda’?


The promise of printers > The reality of printers as he reboots yet again


Pondering ‘The Tank Bowl’


If you find a thread, let me know, as I appear to have lost mine


Work dreams


Here we are again


I remember when it was dry


I woke up with a bounce in my step; pretty sure that was due to the fabulous news of Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize last night. An inspirational win – now let’s all be brilliant, do more, and crash more parties


Less than 12 hours between leaving the office and being back at the office is...
Do you want to be right? Do you want to change minds? Do you want to win? << three interlocking questions I’m thinking about this morning


The silence is loud today


Keep going


Do you make the patterns regular, or leave them be?


It’s always a brimstone, and never an emptystone


jigger jigger jigger


Call Me By My Ballot


Every Brexit Story is a ghost story


November spawned a shower


Verboten is verboten


Do me a favour today please: keep going, keep fighting – if you don’t back yourself, no one else will


And then we came to another beginning


Niche leaders, sally forth narrowly


spinning / whirling / spinning / whirling


Sleep begats more sleep


Check yo’ facts (and the political party that claims to be rebutting ‘em)


It is what it isn’t


Even an unfinished poem tells a truth, once


Thanks for the birthday wishes – you’re all marvellous. Even you


6 more days


the wide wave to the far future


Vote early etc etc


Shake & Shake


Proposal: rewrite of Auden’s ‘The Orators’ as ‘The Wreckers’


back at the desk


No, no epiphanies yet


What did you last win, and when?


Usually drink, usually dance, usually bubble


Hello hello I see the elites are claiming the people with less power are the elites again


Breach, once more, etc


Indifference is a superpower


Pin your ears back and run towards your anger. Behind it is change


This might be the only time I surface this week so…


This is the real of my wildest dream

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