As of the end of today, I’ve been off the drink for a month. I’ve also been single for slightly over a year. (It has not escaped my attention that I appear to be willing to give up certain human interactions for longer than I am willing to abstain from strong drink, but we’ll gloss [...]
Entries from April 28th, 2009
St George’s Day
April 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Several people have wished me, either specifically, or as part of general bit of well wishing to all their digital friends, a Happy St George’s Day today. Because there’s been a trend in recent years to try and celebrate it, a bit like St Patrick’s Day, presumably because the big breweries will jump at any [...]
Tags: patriotism · stgeorge
Truth And Power
April 21st, 2009 No Comments
Del asks what I think about the current expansions of police powers to curb photography/journalism. And because Del is clever, she asked that I try and be balanced about it. As is probably eyeball-searingly obvious, I am against it with the kind of incandescent rage I normally reserve for bigots, morons and people who attempt [...]
Tags: civil liberties · photography · police
Suburban Interlude
April 19th, 2009 No Comments
“The past, whether Renaissance Italy or ancient Egypt, is reassimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonise past and future. “ — J.G. Ballard “The Atrocity Exhibition”. He was a clever bastard, and it’s a shame he’s gone.
Brain Freeze
April 15th, 2009 No Comments
I keep feeling like I want to write a long blog post about something. And Then I come to sit and write, and I have no idea what I want to write about. This is very peculiar. Theoretically, I owe Hester and Andrea a topic each, but I’m not happy with either of the pieces [...]
