Jon Elkon

  • Feathers in the Stone

    Education has been my mortgage-payer since 1998. Surrounded by the eternal chatter of the developing mind, ensconced in a system which elevates the Blame Game into public policy; within an environment in which Theory Y is the way to fly; watch my blogs! I promise to always be honest. To attack those who could change…

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  • The Blond Bumshells!

    What is the reason for Trump and Johnson? Why did any concatenation of karmic forces combine in such a devilish way to create two such patently dangerous menaces to society, to peace, to the environment, to sanity? Ok, I confess, Boris Johnson is a minor devilette compared to the satanic monster of the Trump. Our…

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  • On the tube I sat and wrote..

    The writer should never stop writing. The writer cannot stop writing. The magic words are “what if…?” The Zoggian There are not many orphans from the Zog wars who made it to planet Earth, but Gerdin was certainly one. At least that was the firmly stated opinion of Robert Root, and one he never tired…

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  • Flash Fiction: In a Phew words…

    The suicide note said “sorry for the inconvenience”. He carried his iMac in his back pack. He had wiped everything off the hard drive, except The Novel. He planned to leave it with the note on the platform when he plunged onto the rails. On the back of the Note he had written all his…

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  • New old up the ladder see the world

    This 2016 year This New old year in which I Meet the Government, try By consultation to identify Better ways And Play a bit part in this movie This movie? And do my bit to be Another manifestation of me Immersed in poetry Which movie? And Perhaps I may drop My old love letters into…

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  • Hereunder

    Under this tree I sit and knit Above my head birds sit and shit Is it too much to wish They’d avoid rotting fish Or whatever makes them squit? Oh give me a gun! Or at least a brolly Are those who supply bird tables too dumb To include Imodium?    

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  • A Bite out of Apple

    Evidence of my power and control is I haven’t (yet) thrown my iPhone, this marvel of technology and marketing at the wall or jumped on it with stiletto heels specially bought for this purpose, or punched it with the most devastating yakizuki ever devised by karate…DESPITE its total lack of loyalty, understanding, compassion or even…

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  • …on Pride…

    A definition may help here. I do not intend to google a definition, I prefer to define my topic according to my view, so that I know what I am talking about. If I use somebody else’s definition, they are setting the agenda. This is my blog, I make the rules! How prideful… So my…

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  • Going Nuts in Brighton

    Recently, was a delegate to the NUT (National Union of Teachers) conference in Brighton. Here is my Conference Diary: Tangled in traffic firstly, with multitudes swarming into this sun-speckled place with its rambling Georgian deshabille,as a delegate at the National Teachers’ Union.  With my grin tucked away and all cynicism packed to go…are these my…

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  • Giving Birth to the Books…

    The Laszlo’s Millions rebooted version is now available on Kindle and all other e- book formats, in paperback  – at last! The novel had an incredibly long gestation. It was originally written in 1972! When I was roaming the hippie streets of London fuelled by terrible chemicals, filled with rampant idealism and rampant rampancy too.…

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