Monkey's Blog - with a little help from Alice

Metro Moments

When we go somewhere on the bus, we try to pick up a Metro, the free daily newspaper designed for commuters, with digestible snippets of the Big News, plus some local information and varied entertainment.

We like to save it to read at home over a cup of tea and a crunchy Honey & Oat biscuit. To dunk or not to dunk? Not to - then let the bite dissolve in the tea as you drink it, of course!

Don't forget to click on the photos to see bigger images, or better still, open in a new tab or window.

The letters / texts page is always a hoot. Why a hoot? I wonder, we're not owls. Humans get really hot under the collar about all sorts of things, from other-people gripes like queue-jumpers or nose pickers, to larger issues like the environment (fracking, for example) and Scottish Independence. 

Alice tried to find the origin of hot under the collar for me (the phrase just slipped out, I do confess) but only came up with something about Rhetorical Tropes on a website about Semiotics, which was totally beyond me. She has put in the links, but honestly, I wouldn't bother...

But to get back to The Metro and its unique delights. Today we had photos of  skateboarding mice. Really.

The paper also has a number of regular cartoons, which are often quite fun. Even Alice, whose sense of humour is more restricted than mine, sometimes laughs at them. I think our favourtie is the Learn to Speak Cat series. It's both verbal and visual. Follow the link above, then the one to the facebook page. You don't have to belong or log-in (Alice totally refuses to have any dealings at all with that organisation) but just click on Photos to see lots of examples.

Here is the one that got us prompted to write this particular post. It was on Monday, 5 August. Alice did hoot at it, too.

You must know by now that we're quite keen on "Doing Art", even though our tastes differ somewhat. You'll get the reference to this cartoon if you've been following us from the start and recall that Alice actually enjoyed the Damien Hirst exhibition at the Tate in May 2012. I thought it was a load of pretentious old rubbish, but she says it's Conceptual Art and actually very clever.

See a photo of the original at totallycoolpix. Apparently the first one rotted (Hah!) but the artist went to work on a second one. It's title is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.   See?    I rest my case.