Those vagabond blues...

New York.
New York, New England, New Hampsire. Why do people travel thousands of miles to get away from a place and then pretend they’re still there?
Especially new York. York’s not that great is it?

‘We have arrived in the new world, opportunity, change, fresh horizons.’
‘I miss the Viking centre.’
‘Yeah, me too.’

And remember it was New Amsterdam first – now I can see certain arguments for having another Amsterdam. What if you arrived just after the changeover;
‘Here we are, New Amsterdam, new drugs, new hookers, new Rembrant Museum…’
‘Sorry, it’s all been packed up, New York now.’
‘where’re the canals?’
‘All sent back, it’s ministers and longboats now mate.’

I do like New Zealand, though. Because there’s no old Zealand – but it sounds like there should be. Zealand – sounds like a crazy doctor Suese type place. Yup, I remember Zealand, with the giant purple bees, and the flying fish a-nesting in the thumpa-lumpa trees.

Someone actually told me that New Zealand, is Dutch for new sea land. It’s probably just as well the Dutch didn’t discover too much.
‘I’ve found some new land.’
‘In the sea was it?’
‘That’s right, in the sea.’
‘Hmm, new land in the sea – what should we call it?’


As you probably guessed I'm busy today and I've put some old stand up notes that I found on a disk. If anyone thinks any of it is remotely worth keeping please drop me a line.

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