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Monthly Archives February 2010

A Single Man

For some reason I thought this film was going to be good: perhaps I conflated it with the previous, inspired films featuring Julianne Moore on a kitsch-banal suburban backdrop: Far From Heaven, Safe.
Well I was wrong - A Single Man is singularly awful. The whole texture of the film is sterile, stilted, dry and […]

Posted 27 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Desert Animals

I tried to get out of Mumbai more-or-less as soon as I could. Now I was sitting on a minibus, weaving slowly north through the evening traffic: I was still a little unsure about whether this bus really was going to Bijapur - everybody at the ticket office had said something different.
About 10pm we stopped. […]

Posted 22 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Gardening for Britain

There’s an old guy who’s usually down at the allotments, and I’d always thought there was something funny about him. Only today did I realise what it is: he dresses in a shirt, jacket and tie when he gardens.

Posted 21 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Lifeform

As of yesterday evening, I have established a yeast colony living in my house.

Posted 21 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Indya

Some photos from India up online, and more to come.

I worry about Flickr, by the way. It’s a great photo site, but I think that traffic might be declining - at least, it is for my photos. I’m pretty sure this is because of the rise of Facebook. Fbook is drinking Flickr’s milkshake.

Posted 18 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Outage

Sorry the site’s been down for a few weeks. At least it’s back now!
That’s the first serious outage on totalcardboard.com since I first put the site up, back in… ah… 2003 or something. I’m not quite sure why I’ve kept it going all this time.

Posted 18 February 2010 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °