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Pleased to hear it, Jose.
For anyone missing the cut-and-thrust of Pinza-dominated debates on the whip, he has posted a very interesting and well-written treatise on the subject on his new blog. Below is a taster from it. Gone but certainly not forgotten.
——————————————————————————–The new whip rules are not working, because they are unworkable. They are infuriating nearly everyone, on both sides of the argument. They are reducing the appeal and quality of British racing and race-riding. And, most damning of all, the figures show that they are very clearly working directly against the very aim which they were intended to further.
Most of us don’t want to see the pleasant, anodyne sight of “horses just running around a field” (Lydia Hislop). We don’t want to see the back of such tough old curmudgeons as Lough Derg (tweeted by Nick Luck as the first equine “victim of the whip laws”). We want to see “the stiffening of the sinews” as horse and rider strive in poetic unison to win the race. We want to see competitive racing, the heat of battle, rather than a polite Sunday School egg-and-spoon contest where all shall have prizes.
And we need to make sure that the motley cavalry which wants to deny us that and harry British Racing towards the abyss of provincial obscurity is driven from the field, sooner rather than later. Let’s hope the statistics provide at least the non-fundamentalist anti-whippers amongst them with some food for sensible thought.Crusty, it’s all getting a bit boring now. Boycie posted the, imo, definitive reply to those that support this madness weeks ago.
If I could be arsed I would find it, but at the moment I can’t.
Mr Patch I flicked through the first para
without much attention and so accorded
the stiffening the sinews patch to you and thought
for a minute you had flicked from Frank Carson
to the longfellow in one oddfellow swoop
but indeed it is Pinza
and there seems to be no escaping
his florid metaphor and recently martyrized prose
in this world or the next.There is nothing boring about a
man on a mission
Much as I enjoyed the man-on- a- mission’s words… I can see that others could be fearful of being articulated to death
Maybe his prose is better suited elsewhere, and good luck to him and his disciples.
If one has to go Mr Pilsen
an articulated death
can be as pleasant a demise
as any..
as the longer words tighten
the vocal cords
leaving the metaphors
to bear down on the chest
whilst the attenuated alliteration
acts as powerfully as morphine
to slip the mind slowly away
and then there is this awful snap
that sounds like YEATS.Far far better than Razeen’s death
squashed unrecognisably into a pulp
by flat one syllable demon words
all repetitively bearing the boring stamp
of the awful word association gang
headed by a villain with the
gentle unassuming name of Matronheaded by a villain with the
gentle unassuming name of MatronEspecially as Matron, it seems, is a man, not Hattie Jacques from the Carry On films. I’ve never been so disappointed in all my life.
Can someone put a link up to Pinza’a blog [or is that not allowed?].
This is the link originally provided earlier on in this thread:
http://pinzauk.com/2011/11/21/reading-your-own-obits/
I’m amazed that he has posted only three, admittedly lengthy, features so far and that there have been very few replies or comments, considering the flurry of replies in both directions there were on this forum.
Admirable self-restraint by him? I think, if it were me, I would want to cash in on my notoriety and churn out as much material as I could. After all, they don’t take long to write.
He did say in one of the replies to comments that he had work commitments and was content to post only occasional blog articles, rather than daily ones, as I would have expected.Thanks for the link Crusty. In case anyone is wondering how the Kasabian gig went well, it was loud; very loud. I probably preferred their earlier stuff; with the bass and drums being very overpowering the tribal rhythms of their earlier music came across better
. For the first time ever, I actually wished I was in the whatsit pit at the front. The cunning plan of sitting at the back so’s not to be soaked in warm liquid didn’t work; I still got sprayed on a regular basis. Towards the end of the evening I was so used to it that all that bothered me was that it was actually beer and not urine. Strange how one can be conditioned in such a short space of time. A friend who went to Monsters of Rock a few years back took an umbrella with her; I did think part way through the night that an anorack would have been a good idea. At least I wasn’t [quite] the oldest person in the stadium and I had a moment of euphoria when, just before they came on, they played ‘See Emily Play’…being my favourite song of all time I took it as a sign that I wasn’t too old to be there [too old to rock’n’roll etc], felt that the ‘Ghost of Syd’ was looking down on me and found myself wiping a few tears away. One of life’s [all too rare] magic moments.
Moe, See Emily Play, and this one, http://youtu.be/EQTFRq1hjtM have always been favourites of mine.
S
hine on
Y
ou crazy
D
iamond…
…naughty Mr P..you diverted me onto utube just as I was about to go out to do some Christmas shopping. The Arnold Layne video is so surreal, is it not? First thing I ever heard them do…BBC one evening [the Tonight’ programme I think]. Beautiful Syd; if someone should have died young it was him, but, I guess, he did in a way. Have decided to take myself to see that Australian Pink Floyd tribute band [not sure I’ve ever seen a tribute band before]. See Emily Play will be played at my funeral, along with Pentangles Lyke Wake Dirge….my friends and relations might not be sad at my passing, but the music I’m going to subject them to will make sure they leave feeling bloomin miserable. In case anyone wonders what this has got to do with the Pinza thread, it’s his mention of Scrooge and A Christmas Carol that got me thinking of such things. And, in case both Mr P’s read this, don’t worry Mr Pinza, I actually like feeling gloomy [a la Eeore].
that chap that tried the whip out
on himself
Well I am posting this to put
a bit of distance between us
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