About Stuart G. Hall

Making a positive difference one day at a time. #London #Leicester

Virgin Active

I lock up my gym gear. The locker I use for my bag is empty except for some half-used men’s perfume which I decide would be nice to have. I go into the gym. I return to find the padlock gone and the bag, so fearing theft approach the front desk. No, she replied, it was just that you were in someone else’s locker (though nothing indicated this) so we broke the lock and took your bag. “Can I have my bag please,” I said. “Can I have a new lock please,” I added. “Yes, she said, do you know how to use this kind of lock?”. “Yes, I said. In fact I was only broken into two weeks ago at home so it’s nice to get upgraded.” Then added, “Oh, by the way here’s the guy’s perfume he left in the locker.”

Suburban Mayhem

Noticed coming out of the film ‘Suburban Mayhem’ a anti-speeding poster which reminded me of something I’d seen before..Erwin Blumenfeld’s photomontage of Hitler and a skull: “One version with a jagged hole for a nose, one blank eye socket and a gaping line of teeth was exhibited in Paris in 1937 but had to be withdrawn because the German Ambassador was so incensed by it. The Germans got to see it anyway. The United States Air Force dropped millions of copies of this photograph over German cities in 1943.”

PS: The council built anti-speed islands after a kid on the block got killed by a car. Every now and then some driver fails to see them and ramps their motor rights up and onto them.