has tim curry ever worked with tim rice? the thought popped into my spongyhead late this afternoon, while watching my recently acquired “annie” dvd.

(i am in the midst of compiling the index for this soul-destroying directory layout job i’m doing, so every couple of hours i stop looking at the computer screen and go watch tv to refocus my eyes. perhaps this is not what the experts had in mind when they said to take regular breaks and gaze at something in the distance.)

in between singing along to “easy street” and the reprise of “maybe”, it struck me that a partnership between the two tims could be promoted as “curry rice”:

— kare raisu, the rice and curry dish introduced during the meiji period to japan by the british, via india. how could they but succeed? in japan anyway, what with the whole celebrity endorsement thing…

yes, my brain has completely jellified. like a boiled up beef knuckle. next year i’ll become an illustrator again.