From The Mind of Merc - Pride

Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I took a trip to London where the Pride Parade was in full swing so I thought I'd share a short and simple message:

Let Them Know - !!!NEW!!!

I was inspired by this picture to pen this parody in response to the recent terror attack in London.

Let It Go Let Them Know not from Frozen

The lights glow bright on the river tonight

Not a hater to be seen

A kingdom that is united

This shows just what that means

The press is howling claiming death and pain and war

Won’t let terror win, we don’t want that gore

We’ll let them know, we’ll them let see

Just what being a Londoner does mean

Stand tall, don’t fall down to the foe      

Our strength will grow

Let them know, let them know
It is pointless trying more
Let them know, let them know
Our spirits will always soar
We’re not scared
We just go on our way       
‘Cause the world goes on.
We will prove to them we will win the day

It's funny how such hatred
Makes everyone unite
Won’t let fear ever control us
Not gonna lose this fight

It's time to show what we can do
To stand together and win through
No fear, no doubt, know right from wrong
We’re strong!

Let them know, let them know
Doesn’t matter how hard they try
Let them know, let them know
Though grief might make us cry
We will win
‘Cause come what may
The world still goes on

The story travels through Facebook and on Twitter
Our strength will be remembered for all time and forever
They thought that they could ever make us run in fear
We’ll prove that they were wrong, ‘cause we won’t move from here

Let them know, let them know
We will not give in to their hate  
Let them know, let them know
Surrender’s not our fate
We will win
Whatever they say
‘Cause the world goes on

We will prove to them we will win the day

24 in London sketch - Newsreview

Today's entry is a sketch I penned for Newsjack and was created after a learnt of the commissioning of a new series of a certain spy thriller programme.

Introduction: A new series of 24 has been commissioned to be set in London and that will only consist of 12 episodes but I’m not sure how well Jack Bauer would cope in England…  

Jack Bauer: Ok – so I’ve moved to London and my day has dramatically shortened but I’m sure everything will be just fi-

Government minister: Oh my God, Jack! Thank goodness I found you! There’s a situation in parliament - some mad blond bloke’s threatening to detonate a bomb unless his demands are met by 3.15 this afternoon!

Jack Bauer: Right – let’s go!

(dramatic music interlude)

Jack Bauer: Ok. Ok - so that didn’t work. But everybody just stay calm! We’ve got plenty of time to defeat the terrorist – the bomb’s not set to go off until 3.15pm.

Glamorous assistant: But, Jack, it’s 3:13 now!

Jack Bauer: No it’s not – according to my watch it’s only 10.13am.

Government minister: Uh, Jack – you’re still on US time. London is 5 hours ahead.

Jack Bauer: Oh sh-

(explosion)