User:SmokeyTheCat

My sonnets and stuff:-. The first sums up my present life in 14 lines. (Stephen Fry is a British celebrity considered witty by many who Tweets a lot.)

I'm still a complete putz at Wiki Mark Up Lingo, as this page bears witness, but I have created a lot of new pages. Here are some of them :-


 * Steelyard Blues
 * The Great Tradition by F R Leavis
 * Collectors' Items, Jazz at the Plaza and In Europe albums by Miles Davis
 * Susan George (political scientist) (distinguishing her from the actress of the same name.) and her first book How the Other Half Dies
 * An Expensive Place to Die and Spy Story (novel) novels by Len Deighton
 * Saint Ana
 * Fex urbis lex orbis
 * Lesliana Pereira an Angolan beauty queen
 * Nakano-Ku
 * The Rich a 2014 book by John Kampfner
 * My Man's Gone Now A song from Porgy and Bess
 * Man Made Language a book by Dale Spender
 * Gail Hornstein
 * Gerald May A psychiatrist turned theologian.
 * Ghosts of Empire
 * Reefer Songs
 * Lib Peck current leader of Lambeth Council
 * Spirit of the Stairway
 * Marilyn and Ella
 * The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger a book by Noel Langley
 * Sea Of Afar
 * Cherise Sinclair
 * Re-Ron A song by Gil Scott Heron
 * The Happy End (deleted but now {April 2009} recreated I am pleased to see.)
 * Phaedra complex
 * John Drane
 * Nigel Povah a British chessplayer
 * Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking a book by Christopher Snowdon
 * Elektra Lives Again
 * All Wi Doin' Is Defendin
 * Lambeth Country Show
 * Varoomshka
 * Money-free economy
 * Wacky Dust a song by Ella Fitzgerald
 * Soviet Chess School
 * Claire Thompson
 * Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II a history by Len Deighton
 * The Tin Men, A Landing on the Sun, The Trick of It, Sweet Dreams (novel) and Skios 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
 * Cigarettes are sublime
 * Joanna Moncrieff
 * Nothing Natural
 * Lady G A Jamaican woman singer
 * Roman Warm Period
 * Fear of Fifty: a midlife memoir a book by Erica Jong
 * My Life and Hard Times the autobiography of James Thurber
 * Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated also by James Thurber
 * Christelyn Karazin
 * Emily Reuben
 * The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography
 * Lee MinJin a female Korean Go player
 * The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar, Meridian (novel) and Possessing the Secret of Joy novels by Alice Walker
 * Warrior Marks a non-fiction book 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
 * The Second Trio and Autumn Leaves albums by Bill Evans
 * J.C. Lodge, Deborah Glasgow and Maxine Harvey Jamaican women singers
 * Breakheart Pass and Puppet on a Chain novels by Alistair MacLean
 * Panic in Babylon and Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry albums by Lee Perry
 * Carl Shroeder
 * Me—I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf a TV play by Alan Bennett
 * Vida (novel) and Going Down Fast novels by Marge Piercy

I have also rescued The Last Resort (Eagles song) from being a mere redirect.

I have made contributions to, amongst others, :-
 * Len Deighton
 * Sandinista
 * Sarah Vaughan
 * Donald Davie A poet.
 * Ken Livingstone
 * Jimi Hendrix
 * Black Kiss
 * St. George Defence (chess),
 * Brixton
 * Duke Ellington
 * Alice Walker
 * Harold Wilson
 * Battle of Trafalgar
 * The Harder They Come
 * Life Before Man a novel by Margaret Attwood
 * Gregory Isaacs
 * Aquatic Ape Theory
 * Elvis Costello
 * Credit card debt
 * Go(board game)
 * Stevie Smith
 * Scat singing
 * Elektra: Assassin (I added the picture)
 * Chang Hao and Go Seigen (Go players)
 * David Bronstein
 * Lauryn Hill (I put in a better photo)
 * Bessie Smith
 * Linton Kwesi Johnson
 * Battle of Alesia
 * Socialist Party (England and Wales)
 * The Mighty Diamonds
 * Modern Toss
 * Watts Riot
 * Independence Day (film)
 * Father Ted
 * Michael Frayn
 * Asterix in Britain & Asterix the Legionary
 * Tom Waits
 * Lt. Uhura
 * Viv Stanshall among others. These reflect some of my interests.

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.

 SmokeyTheCat   •TALK•