Archive for the 'Notes' Category

What to drop

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Here is the only thing I have written in a year. It was, of course, produced for the fantastic Summer Special edition of All The Rage.
What to drop
I fell down the stairs yesterday. I forget which foot it was that glanced the cliff-edge of one stair and slid across it, causing me to shoot down [...]

Tarkovsky

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Suitably minimal “flyer” below:
Enter ‘The Zone’ with
Stalker Night @ A E Harris.
On Friday 17th July at 7.30
Stan’s Cafe celebrate one of their greatest inspirations
Andrei Tarkovsky’s extraordinary film Stalker
Alongside a DVD screening of this wonderful film there will be
a presentation of
Zone a photographic series by acclaimed photographer David Bate
inspired by the film, shot in an around [...]

Another Great Day For The Coinage

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

On this the second anniversary of my original comment regarding the Englishness of St George’s Day, I have commenced a new iterative documentation project, details to be released when I have some data.

Twitter Ye

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

I’ve signed up to see what it’s all about. I’m an explorer. Here I am.

There is no why

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

One of my earliest memories is watching Blue Peter at what must have been the very end of 1973, making me five and a bit. The TV was filled with footage of Viking ships on fire, and one of the presenters was saying “and so we say goodbye to 1973…”. But what I was aware [...]

A Posh Time

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

It was Three Times Hotter Than Bournemouth.

A Geek Misery Memoir

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

This month’s All The Rage theme is Games and Play, and it is brought to you alongside the London Games Festival Fringe. Here below are some of my thoughts on the topic.
I think it was for my eighth birthday that I received a pair of binoculars. They were not toy binoculars but proper grown-up binoculars, [...]

All Creatures Great and Small

Monday, September 1st, 2008

It’s time for the first All The Rage of a new autumn, and so here is my bit.
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly.
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she’ll die.
I swallowed a fly once, but I survived. The key, I think, is not to panic.
But the old woman in [...]

How pretty

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

This is how Joyfeed looks like to Wordle:

Monster Munch

Friday, August 1st, 2008

It’s time to pop over to the pdf magazine All The Rage and read about Monsters. My own contribution, a sobering account of celebrity excess, can be found below.
A dinosaur is diverted from a course of city-scale mayhem by a
Godzilla-sized packet of Chewits, cleverly mirroring the use of bright
candy to mollify the “little monsters” at [...]