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About Me

For a long time I was known as David Jack, until I joined the american army and met a tribe of Indians who called me 'Walks by Night'. I think it was their way of commenting on my insomnia, though perhaps they had some kind of workhouse system akin to that in 'Oliver Twist' and 'W' was just the next letter in the alphabet. Anyway, you may call me by either name. Although I fought on the old frontier with great valour and distinction, I am in fact Scottish. I conform to all the stereotypes: love whisky, wear a kilt on the slightest pretext, subject to fits of melancholy (especially when under the influence of aforementioned whisky), am a born romantic and watch football with the fervour of religious devotion. I am a friend to all who practise the rites and belong to the priesthood of the round ball and hold in ineffable contempt those who favour oval ball games, or games involving clubs or raquets. May their altars and shrines be left unfrequented and may their incense be a stench in the nostrils of the footballing deities. I will also deem you my brother or sister if you renounce Calvinism in all its forms, if you love C S Lewis, Charles Dickens and/or George MacDonald, if you have poetry in your soul and if you will pledge your allegiance to the cause (thrice worthy and noble cause!) of scottish independence. Long live alba!
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My Interests

being an insomniac, being an epicure and an aesthete, supporting the hoops, laughing at the huns, upbraiding calvinists, drinking whisky, controlling the midfield, speaking in pidgeon french, speaking in pidgeon english, 'needless obscurity', translating random things into scots, quoting lines from chariots of fire, being branded a heretic by other christians.

I'd like to meet:

Henrik Larsson, Lubo Moravcik, Jimmy Johnstone, Keith Green, C S Lewis, Joy Gresham, Cleopatra, Charles Dickens, George Macdonald, Brother Walfred, Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Robert Burns, Aslan, Gandalf, Ronaldinho, Pele, Martin Luther, Bella Wilfer, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, G K Chesterton, John Wesley, John the Baptist, John Keats, John Milton (lots of cool people are called John) Lawrence Boythorn, Samuel Weller, Wilkins Macawber, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Ignatius of Loyola, Ophelia, Socrates (the philosopher and the footballer) and Jesus. Also anyone who is into football, especially celtic fans.

Music:

depressing scottish music like del amitri, travis and belle and sebastian; non depressing scottish music like franz ferdinand, capercaille, runrig and k t tunstall; piano music like chopin, schumann, regina spektor and keith green; random classical stuff like handel, beethoven, tchaikovsky, vivaldi, mahler, rimsky korsakov, mozart etc; songstresses such as joan baez and eva cassidy; cool stuff like dylan, clapton, jeff buckley, johnny cash and blondie; deeply uncool stuff like bryan adams and the occasional bit of bon jovi

Television:

Football, Simpsons, Have I Got News For You.

Books:

Robert Falconer, Phantastes, and anything else by George MacDonald; any Dickens esp. Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend; any Lewis esp. Chronicles of Narnia, Surprised by Joy, A Grief Observed, The Screwtape letters; any Chesterton; Any Shakespeare; LOTR; The Hobbit; Crime and Punishment; War and Peace; Anna Karenina; Waverley; Jane Eyre; any Austen. Some of my Favourite poets are Burns, Keats, Christina Rosetti, Coleridge and Milton as well as the poetry of MacDonald and Lewis.

Heroes:

Jesus, Henrik Larsson, Lubo Moravcik, Jimmy Johnstone, Jock Stein, Eric Liddell, Keith Green, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, C S Lewis, Charles Dickens, George MacDonald, G K Chesterton, John Keats, Robert Burns, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce.

My Blog

The Dead Poet Sketch

yes, this is a total monty python rip-off. But if you're going to steal, steal from the best (and anyway, my version's better.)[a customer walks into a poet shop and approaches the counter]Customer: I...
Posted by papa dave on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:39:00 PST

A Poem to Encourage the Weary

this was inspired by reading Luke's gospel (in scots) and by meeting with Jesus in a way that, for a number of reasons, has been pretty rare for me in the past. Hopefully it will be less so as he brea...
Posted by papa dave on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:13:00 PST

God's Character

Another George MacDonald quote for my soul to feed upon. "God is so beautiful, and so patient, and so loving, and so generous that he is the heart and soul and rock of every love and every kindness a...
Posted by papa dave on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:52:00 PST

Trust

Just making a record of a George MacDonald quote I came across today, which was so timely I believe it was a direct word from God into my situation. "The universe would be to me no more than a pasteb...
Posted by papa dave on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:23:00 PST

some more stolen moments of passion...

yes, i made another of my now lamentably rare appearances on the football field tonight. i had forsaken and jilted my lover, the beautiful game, for too long and it was only fair to her that we shared...
Posted by papa dave on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:03:00 PST

Retail Therapy

I really don't have money to be spending on luxuries at the moment but I've been feeling crap for a while, what with the insomnia and so on, so I went into town yesterday and bought myself a 'tr...
Posted by papa dave on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:41:00 PST

it must be lurve

i was so inspired by our win over the mancs yesterday that in spite of the usual tiredness i took my football out (from the hall cupboard) and showed it a good time. if it could talk it would te...
Posted by papa dave on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:43:00 PST

Man Who?

1-0 to the tims, lovely jubley. Let us give thanks to god for this goal, made in japan by shunsuke nakamura (and the other one he scored at old trafford) http://www.etims.net/images/stories/naka_mu_go...
Posted by papa dave on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:46:00 PST

On Poets and Pipe Smokers.

Poets and pipe smokers are the most affable of people. I would be quite content to linger in their genial company for many long and luxurious hours if permitted, and leave the giddy and inconstant wor...
Posted by papa dave on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:44:00 PST

Boo Hoo

I think I just reached new heights (or should I say depths) of footballing masochism tonight, by staying to watch the whole of Celtic's 3-0 defeat to Benfica when it was clear from early on that it wa...
Posted by papa dave on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST