dancing plague
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper. Rolf Alton Harris I was worried that this blog was becoming a bit girly, so I decided to use this image of a dancing...
View ArticleHow to get more mystery into your life
I do. I do want to be found. I do want you to find me. – Kip in The English Patient (film) I recently read this post by Oliver Burkeman about making life more mysterious. Some of the suggestions...
View ArticleA sense of urgency in the air
Glen Baxter – “I have noticed that when moving trolleys through the food store … there seems to be a basic obliviousness about the patterns of motion around them, whether or not there is a sense of...
View ArticleThe unseen ass
Patrick Dewaere and Gerard Depardieu ride bikes, chased by man with pitchfork via RidesaBike To this day, I’ve haven’t thought of a decent comeback. I will never have one. I don’t believe anyone really...
View ArticleOn riding into things
c. 1930s, motorcycle pace-setter, via Last week I rode into a swarm of bees. I realised I was going to ride into them a fraction of a second too late. The bees were coming out of a tree growing on the...
View ArticleDear Bob Cunis
One of the things I did when up was up in Auckland for the writers’ festival was meet my friend Donald for breakfast one morning, on K Road, just after I had fallen over while walking to meet him. It...
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