Monthly Archives July 2006

Operation Infinite Purity

All politically conscious citizens should be aware of President Bush’s bold new plan to simultaneously reduce crime and masturbation.
From the official White House site:
http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/purity/index.asp

Potentially unrelated press photo

Very Very Very North

Sweden has a lot of hamburgers, coffee, lakes, chewing tobacco and facial hair. People seem mostly serious, friendly but not outgoing, with functional clothing and faces.
There are lots of detailed rules designed to make things just and orderly, and there is great affection for automated systems involving coins and buttons. Recycling systems are rigorous, formidable […]

Free the Bikes!

This morning I flew to Copenhagen, as the first step of a short hiatus which will take me, hopefully, beyond the Arctic Circle and into the Land of the Midnight Sun - getting back to London in a week or so, all in time to get another job before I become seriously insolvent. I plan […]

Visual diary

Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound […]

Visual diary

Christmas 2005. Very hot.
This is my cousin Alex and his daughter Holly.

Futile clouds over the red desert of central Australia.

Me living in darkness - London, February 2006.