The other day as I sat in the offices of the Urban Times (the web magazine where I’m interning over the summer), work started to gear down from the usual fast-paced mix of writing, emailing, editing and tweeting, and degenerated into a session of Googling the names of all of all the Urban Times team to see what came up…
I turned 26 yesterday. There are a lot of things I could talk to you about, having finished my first quarter-century – goals for the year ahead, reminiscences from the year now passed, hopes, fears, dreams, and reservations – but for now I want to mention just one: This year, I will step my blog [...]
Recently I spent two weeks visiting friends in San Francisco. It was an experience that stirred up reflections on many levels, from the personal to the social to the spatial, some of which will certainly find their way onto here in time. Meanwhile, here is a selection of landscape pictures taken on the trip, all [...]
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with your tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces. – D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
Wednesday night contained strange characters and experiences that I was still trying to process as I staggered into bed at 6am. Before I passed out I scrawled down a few notes, and I thought I’d write up a few fragments here… * * * The backdrop: Soho. Louche, shady, and after dark a playpen for [...]
Here Is a List of 25 Things My Cat Has Never Seen: 1. a trombone 2. His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama 3. a human skull 4. the Reichstag 5. Malibu Barbie 6. identical twins 7. the final scene of Casablanca 8. a butterfly knife 9. Jim Morrison’s grave 10. a first edition of Ulysses [...]
