Dissolved April 26, 2007

bridge parapet
bungeeless jump
sodden love letter
slowly unclenched
unsent
afloat

Soliloquy April 22, 2007

To blog or not to blog, that is the question.
Whether ‘t is nobler in the mind, to suffer
The sticks and stones of caustic comment;
Or to take arms against a sea of trolls,
And with cutting wit, kill them? – To delete the blog, -to fall silent,
No more; -and, by deleting, to say we end
The manic monitoring [...]

Climbing up the walls April 15, 2007

I know, I know. I’ve not been writing much at all lately. And it’s hugely inconsiderate to those of you who pop by occasionally (bless your cotton socks) to read the noxious fumes I foist upon you. But you have to understand, I am a man who’s been without cigarettes for, erm, two weeks now. [...]

The Unthinking Blogger April 8, 2007

Easter Sunday, and first thing in the morning I am confronted by a
Thornton’s chocolate gorilla wielding a banana (what’s she trying to say?), who was swiftly dealt with in the only humane and acceptable manner for dispatching leering chocolatey simians: he got his head bitten off.
As well as chocolate gorillas, Easter also has something to [...]

I like… April 6, 2007

 If you haven’t seen The Big Lebowski yet, how come? 

This song by Carlos Paredes ‘Anos Verdes’ (Tender Years) always moves me:

And I love these. What I love about gypsy culture, and in particular their music, is that it transmits so much happiness despite, as a race, having been persecuted [...]

Chavs R Us April 2, 2007

From the perspective of a newly-arrived foreign observer, Britain must seem an impenetrable and baffling array of unspoken rules and traditions. From a distance, the archetypal British male still wears a tweed jacket and sips his tea with his pinkie firmly erect. American films and TV programs even now, whenever called upon to include a British character [...]