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Geoff
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Hullo Geoff here.
Wikipedia is a very interesting place or phenomonon, however you choose to look at it. As an encyclopedia of everything it must be hard to beat. Who is going to go out and spend substantial amounts of money on a printed encyclopedia when current events will make it redundant in a few weeks on topical issues. Just consider the entries on Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Putin or George W.Bush. I think it's definitely here to stay and quite democratic too, the only exception I have found so far is the entry on Reagan which is heavily biased in the subject's favour and a small clique of Reaganites prevent a single word being changed.
I spend a lot of my spare time playing Go (board game). I claim to be a 1 Dan, am probably weaker but enjoying playing even games against 1 Dans and small handicap (6 komi) against 2 Dans. I have beaten about 60 1 Dans and about 15 2 Dans but I lose far, far more. I have beaten two 3 Dans. I play at https://home.wwgo.jp/ where my handle is Geoff. I get a bit depressed after losing a lot of games and retreat to the Internet Chess Club www.chessclub.com where I can win a few 3 0 chess games. I am usually about 1800 there.
SmokeyTheCat is a phenomonon in that he is a much better mathematician than Diana Ross, a considerably better singer than Sly Stallone, a far more accomplished cook than Lenin, a vastly better boxer than Kate Moss and a lot taller than Danny De Vito. Despite all of this he is not rich nor famous for some obscure reason.
"I've had a good evening but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." Dorothy Parker
"Los Angeles is what happens when 72 suburbs get together in search of a city." Also Dorothy. (I've never been to LA but this seems like a cool thing to write about it.)
New pages I have created are:-
- Steelyard Blues
- Fex urbis lex orbis
- Susan George (political scientist) (distinguishing her from the actress of the same name.)
- An Expensive Place to Die and Spy Story (novel) novels by Len Deighton
- Saint Ana
- My Man's Gone Now A song from Porgy and Bess.
- Sea Of Afar
- Re-Ron A song by Gil Scott Heron
- The Happy End (deleted)
- John Drane
- Soviet Chess School <<<--- This, however, has been tagged as "unusable"
- Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II a history by Len Deighton
- The Tin Men, A Landing on the Sun and Sweet Dreams (novel) novels by Michael Frayn
- Benefactors (play) A play also by Michael Frayn
- Sarah Jane Morris (disambiguation)
- Bodhisattva (song), The Boston Rag, Your Gold Teeth, Pearl of the Quarter and Razor Boy songs by Steely Dan from the album Countdown to Ecstasy. Although these have all been redirected back to the original article to my dismay.
- Christianity and Astrology This needs some work
- Racism in music Needs some work too but it looks like it will be deleted anyway
- Lady G A Jamaican woman singer
- My Life and Hard Times the autobiography of James Thurber
- Lee MinJin
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar
- Meridian (novel) and
- Possessing the Secret of Joy novels by Alice Walker
- Sarah Vaughan Sings Great Songs From Hit Shows, After Hours, Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live and Sarah + 2 albums by Sarah Vaughan
- J.C. Lodge, Deborah Glasgow and Maxine Harvey Jamaican women singers
- Breakheart Pass and Puppet on a Chain novels by Alistair MacLean
- Gay Ex-Jehovahs Witnesses (!) (Deleted)
- Stroppy
- Carl Shroeder
- Vida (novel) a novel by Marge Piercy
I also created one of for Susana Reche but she was considered too unimportant and was deleted. So now you'll never know who she is unless you Google her. I still think she deserves a mention but was in a minority of one.
I have made contributions to, amongst others, :-
[edit] To Do List
Get all the Sarah Vaughan albums currently listed in red changed to blue. This will take some time as I will have to buy all the albums but will still be a pleasure.
