Send a postcard with regards from Calcutta. See Calcutta and go on living. Meet your Damascus in Calcutta. As alive as Calcutta. Chop off your cock in Calcutta (in the temple of Kali, where young goats are sacrificed and a tree is hung with wishing stones that cry out for children, more and more children). […]
Frustrating, bewildering history of: relations between men and women; gastronomy; the Vistula estuary in northern Germany.
Highlights included:
- Vasco de Gama visits modern-day Calcutta
- Friedrich II introduces the potato to Germany
- the rebellion at Gdansk shipyard
Though it sounds rainy and dull, I have contracted a strange desire to visit Gdansk. I would also like to record […]
I have invented a neologism: “neolog”.
As of today, I am releasing it into the wild (i.e., I’m going to start using it).
This could be the world’s first experimental neolog.
Apparently, broadband internet is about to become 90% cheaper in East Africa.
Hopefully this means better prospects for education, information, and the alleviation of poverty.
Or maybe it will be just another step towards the homogenisation of everything.
Anthony Riddelll recently sent me his latest work, Cellophane.
Brightness was inserting its copper fingers into the night, staining the darkened cellophane dome. Slugs and others did their duty and made their way beneath it. Passing cars made sinister incantations as they travelled on rude roads. Any bird that spoke was an unspeakably beautiful speckle on […]
I just stumbled upon this beautifully titled work of natural history.
E C Large, The Advance of the Fungi (Jonathon Cape, 1940; reprint APS press)
Immediately after Barack Obama was elected President, the carwash I ride past on the way to work changed its name to “Obama Carwash”. What a great piece of entrepreneurial opportunism.
More recently, the same business has changed its name to “The Only One Carwash”. I take this to mean that the President’s political honeymoon is over.
This post is only for people who are interested in text encoding on the internet - and the only reason I am writing this post is because I just spent two hours wasting my time because I didn’t realise that Firefox converts non-breaking spaces into normal spaces.
I.e., if a webpage contains the nbsp character   […]
Theatre is absorbing all at the moment. I’ve got my first ever major part - for a play in the autumn, The American Pilot. More on that later. For the moment I am deeply stuck in rehearsals and, starting tonight, performances of Henry V. I am a bit exhausted already, and we haven’t even started. […]