BLUBBERY Robel Kiros Habte swims at a crawl, a very slow crawl, but he is the unlikely star of Rio.
We find more of the
blubbery pinnipeds at Gold Harbour, a glorious snapshot of the wild chaos that shapes South Georgia.
It has a
blubbery body and a bulbous head, and found throughout the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
Starting out on separate islands, each of the would be "psychic" animals had to, bounce by
blubbery bounce, haul themselves on their bellies over a wooden bridge, like an overweight Hatem Ben Arfa, to reach the two trainers on a central rocky outcrop.
Their recognition by the judges, for them, was like winning an Oscar, without the showbiz pretence or
blubbery acceptance speeches.
I remember encountering a disgusting,
blubbery yob vomiting on the pavement outside the Lineker Bar, flesh protruding everywhere from beneath a Union Jack vest.
Although nowadays a
blubbery vision in flaming red Spandex and ratty mullet, Art is not about to disabuse the idealistic kid of his fantasy.
Spindly aristos with prize-winning jug ears that spend the afternoon holding up the topper left by grandfather in his will;
blubbery men who failed to attend the fitting for their hire suit on account of being unavoidably detained in the saloon bar of the Ferret and Sack by the Hunslet versus Dewsbury game; none of it reflects well on anybody involved.
In an age where John Candy is but a memory, Martin Short's
blubbery, epicene Jiminy Glick re presents the future of the fat comic.
Was the "
blubbery" style of those years a relative low point, a long prequel to the (now much better known) abstractions of the "dry" '80s?
In the Medicine Bar, the London-based Blacktronica collective were inflamed with an optimistic, funky passion, spinning Senegalese Antilles fusion in amongst
blubbery reggae and broken-beated disco.
It is one week today before Weight Watchers will be faced with my
blubbery form.