I Spoke Too Soon
I spoke too soon it seems and now my throat feels like I’ve been necking Czech battery acid. Luckily Jasmine tea is delicious and soothes some of my ills. (The photograph of tea on that page is...
View ArticleAt Least I’m Not Vomiting into the Gaping Anus of Christ
I feel pretty rough this afternoon. A combination of many late night, crap larger, not eating enough food, reading paranoid spy novels until three in the morning and forgetting that the human body...
View Article“Merchants of extraordinary tea & coffee.”
Still waiting for a response from a second interview. The sound of a broken exhaust muffler rumbling in the garage. Driving into the city after the rush hour. Enjoying the perfect light. Reading M....
View ArticleEastercon 2011 & Managing a Minecraft Habit
It must be a sign that you are developing a problematic addiction to a computer game when you change your computer’s windows manager so that the game runs faster. On my Linux desktop instead of using...
View ArticleAn Election Day in 2011
tl;dr — Make sure you vote. I don’t care who for or if you vote yes or no for AV, just fucking cast your ballot. People died and are still dying today for the right to vote. Don’t waste yours. Almost...
View ArticleAnnie’s Box (Alt. Vocal)
I’m slowly getting back in the habit of constructing playlists to listen to while working on short stories. I should start to record the changes I make over time to the lists in more detail as each...
View ArticleOld Habits
What I want are a games that I can play for a little while and then put down so I can go away to do other things. I don’t want any narrative, I have books for that. All I want is pure gameplay. I...
View ArticleSky Attempting to Snow
This morning when I was forced out of bed to answer the doorbell the sky was attempting to snow. A few drips of sleet landed on my naked torso as I signed for my brother’s Amazon parcel. That sad...
View ArticleAll the Possible Routes
I am turning into my Dad. My memories of trips to the mythic north to visit Grandparents during the festive season follow a consistent pattern. In the morning we blasted up the M1 and across the M62 to...
View ArticleSans Soleil
Last night I watched Sans Soleil with Jenny. For a film essay on the nature of memory I think it appropriate that I remember little of its contents. This is 100 minutes of montage supposedly filmed by...
View ArticleThe Winter Solstice
It’s the shortest day today. Time for a moan. Although given the year that I have had mostly spent indoors under fluorescents, I am hard pressed to notice. Now if I’d written about the end of the year...
View ArticleCABBAGES AND KINGS
The only way that I can describe Jonah Sutton-Morse’s podcast, Cabbages and Kings, is as amateurish — but in the best possible way. To my knowledge this is his first attempt at podcasting and he has...
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