Clive James: Goonnee

Worm said:
I haven't read a lot of his stuff, but his first volume of memoirs - 'Unreliable Memoirs' - is one of my favourite books, and I can thoroughly recommend it.
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I'd quite forgotten that I'd read that years ago and found it a very enjoyable read.
 
I've heard a lot of names and descriptions for Arnold Schwarzenegger; "the Austrian Oak", "Arnie", "Schwarzy" and "The Governator", but Clive James' description of him tops the lot...

"a brown condom full of walnuts"
 
Have complete understanding for the trim mods.

And good pick for the paragraph
 
a_unique_person said:
I saw that. He was very entertaining and intelligent, great sense of humour. It was very disappointing when he started blabbing on about climate like he actually knew more about it than a scientist.
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At least his climate stance ensured he got a big write up in the Murdoch press, they called him a 'giant'.

If he had said climate change was real they would have limited it to a sentence buried on page 8 "Former television critic Olive James dies at 80"
 
I never stopped to wonder why I hadn't heard from or about him for so many years, didn't know he was so ill, for so long. Poor bastard.

Back in the early 1970's my dad often used to drive up to the West End in the small hours of Sunday to get the Sunday Times and Observer, and I vividly remember the laughs I got from James's TV reviews, this from c. age twelve on [ETA which isn't trying to paint myself as precocious, just that the man had a relaxed Aussie wit, and a way of putting it in written words that anyone (of any age) can enjoy].

Many years later I read many of the same columns again, compiled in The Crystal Bucket, they were still FAF.
 
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smartcooky said:
I've heard a lot of names and descriptions for Arnold Schwarzenegger; "the Austrian Oak", "Arnie", "Schwarzy" and "The Governator", but Clive James' description of him tops the lot...

"a brown condom full of walnuts"
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... who "talks like he's got a mouthful of marbles"
 
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