January 2012
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December 2010
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November 2010
4 posts
No Ordinary Day
Along towards noon
A shady garden
Bits and pieces of a cycle
A table laid with mechanical parts
Gearwheels, pedal arms, toe-clips
Screws, cables, a couple of busy hands
The whole thing pulled to pieces
This is no ordinary day…
…Ole ritter eats by himself
This is no ordinary day
A handful of greasy ball bearings
The cycle’s vital parts mustn’t fail today
A good solid lunch in peace and...
Fuck you, "Unstoppable"
From the cherubcow review of “Unstoppable”, a full list of the only movie references that mean anything to me:
…the train does not, in fact, fly off the rails like Back to the Future Part III, fight and defeat Godzilla, send all nuclear weapons into the sun, create an unending world peace, fly back to its native galaxy to discover its ancestral past, make a Star Trek cameo, find...
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
Dear Yuban: Fuck your coffee.
Yu(ban) bastards, it has been months since I’ve been this angry at a *thing*. Yur coffee is not simply weak or unimpressive, the route to mediocrity taken by coffee served in sports bars, realty offices, hospital waiting rooms, and movie theaters. No. Yu push the envelope, yu develop a coffee that is AGGRESIVELY BAD. Each time I drink it, I literally have to brush my teeth before...
Ån Anecdote: The Terrific Storm of the 12th of...
During the terrific storm of the 12th of July last, a labourer’s cottage was struck by lightning at Leagrave, near here. The lightning descended, according to an eye-witness’s report, like a “spout of fire,” and struck and descended the chimney, which it destroyed. In the room below there was an old shepherd, an invalid woman, a child and a shepherd’s dog. The...
October 2009
2 posts
September 2009
4 posts
August 2009
5 posts
“One can be, indeed, one must strive to become, tough and philosophical...”
– James Baldwin, from a letter to his nephew, on the hundredth anniversary of The Emancipation.
July 2009
5 posts
