Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

An office worker for the US city of Detroit is suing for her colleagues to be banned from wearing perfume which gives her such severe headaches, nausea and coughing fits that she must leave work.

Court documents showed Thursday that Susan McBride suffered so acutely from allergy to the chemicals in scents, lotions and sprays that she had to go home sick when a heavily perfumed co-worker shared her office at the city's historic districts department.

Her sensitivity is such that she avoids the detergent sections in shops and cannot sit near perfumed people in a movie theater or on the bus.

The co-worker refused to leave off the perfume, according to the complaint filed at the district court in Detroit, in the northern state of Michigan. McBride needed medical treatment and was off work for some time.

Now she is seeking a jury trial to make the city force fellow employees to come to work un-scented, citing disability discrimination laws. She is claiming unspecified damages for "pain, suffering, humiliation and outrage" suffered.

McBride and her manager have already asked the city authorities that employ her to enforce a "no scent policy as an accommodation to her disability, without success," the complaint said

When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write, if
the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your
copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right
to copyright the rite you write.

Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to copyright
the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite,
and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write.
His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the
copyright can be right.

Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write
right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright. Duplicating that
rite would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which Wright
would have the right to right.

Right?

I wrote yesterday that I'd got hold of a copy of the film 'Drowning By Numbers'. It's a strange art film and certainly not to everyone's taste…but I find it fascinating. One of the running themes throughout is the playing of obscure [and mostly totally invented] games.

I've found a website that explains the rules of these games; I don't think some of them will be suitable for dinner parties though.

Here's a list of the games:

Dawn Card Castles
Flights Of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump
Sheep & Tides
The Great Death Game
Deadman's Catch
Bees In The Trees
Hangman's Cricket
Tug Of War
The Hare And Hounds
The Endgame

Here's the link.