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Monthly Archives March 2007

Oxford town

What’s Oxford all about, people are always asking me. Well, I’ll tell you now, and I’ll tell you good.
Oxford is in England. That, I believe, is why it is so Englishy. People are really polite and generally they say “sorry” a lot. People are cultured and spend their time thinking about Ancient Grecian art, and […]

Posted 31 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

All hail the poet president

Story of the week, for me (well the Iranian diplomatic circus is pretty entertaining, but this other morsel still wins out)… would have to be the revelation of Barack Obama’s college poetry.
Some youthful works he had published in a student magazine when he was 19 years old have come to light. In my opinion, his […]

Posted 30 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Steamy nightworld

It’s 1am, and I’m in Singapore airport. This is basically a pointless blog post to celebrate free high-speed internet terminals, everywhere! This is the only airport I know of that has a roof-top cactus garden, where you can go and smoke clove cigarettes with Arabs in white robes. It is 27 degrees and steamy, which […]

Posted 22 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (2) °

Grandma Browne

Grandma Browne is getting on a bit. She is smaller and smaller every day, carefully receding from her corporeal existence… not that I would propose there is any other existence beyond (sorry Grandma).
She has liquid in her lungs, which doesn’t let her breathe. With insufficient oxygen, everything withers - and I suppose this is an […]

Posted 20 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

All the places I have lived

I am now 27 years old, and decided this might be a good time to think back on all the places I have lived. The first 27 years of my life have been spent in 24 different places of residence. But when you add to this the times I have moved back in or back […]

Posted 18 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Monbiot on Death by Plane

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/02/28/we-are-all-killers/
We Are All Killers
Posted February 28, 2006
Until we stop flying
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 28th February 2006
At last the battlelines have been drawn, and the first major fight over climate change is about to begin. All over the country, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the […]

Posted 15 March 2007 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °