Posted in body, discomfort, health, illnesses, intoxication, person on January 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Long-suffering bedwatchers will be dismayed to hear that I spoke too soon and am back on a course of antibiotics for my stomach. My old friend H Pylori, or possibly some relative thereof, might well have returned according to my doctor. Obviously there’ll be some basic human sympathy in that dismay, but I imagine a [...]
Posted in diary, entertainment, environment, experience, festivals, intoxication, location, nature, oxford, person, psychogeography, seasons, time on June 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
My diary claims that Friday is the summer solstice. Saturday would be more convenient. And the adventist calendar for 2008 is silent on the matter, and precession complicates matters anyway.
We’d like to celebrate it, anyway, as it’s a day when you can justify getting up or staying up at times when you would normally still [...]
Posted in age, anniversaries, intoxication, person, time on April 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Next Friday is my 31st, and there’ll be some sort of drinking happening in Oxford.
If you’d like to come then you’re almost certainly invited, unless you’d like to meet me and kill me. Feel free to leave a comment with a valid email address—or email me—and I’ll let any non-murderers know what’s going on.
Posted in body, development, dreams, experience, far_away, fluids, intoxication, language, location, occupation, person, semantics on March 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Our recent work trip went surprisingly well, in the sense that it may actually have fulfilled its ostensible purpose of building a team. I cite as evidence the exception proving the rule: when we became a little tetchy part way through, it was the tetchiness of a family that has spent too much time together [...]
Posted in amerika, class_warfare, cliques, death, enmity, health, illnesses, intoxication, journalism, media, occupation, opinion, person, politics, rants, society, work on June 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Over on Blairwatch, a detractor of the smoking ban manages to lift himself up wheezily on his elbows for long enough to type a rather brief post including the following:
The rest of the time [Chiswick Railway Station]’s as open to the elements as the bus stop next to it. Presumably it’s illegal to smoke there, [...]
Posted in art, arts_and_crafts, body, buildings, fluids, food, intoxication, location, person, venues on April 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
After a wee drink or three in its confines last night with K, j4 and addedentry, I can heartily recommend the bizarre pub/restaurant/arts-collective crossover that is The Jam Factory. With décor from Modern Art Oxford or Ovada, beer from somewhere like Copa crossed with a decent pub (Cotswold lagers on draught), and free olives if [...]
Posted in art, body, festivals, intoxication, person, poetry, time on March 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
An inspired moment when reading The San Patricio Limerick Festival produced:
The features genetics have dealt
Make me neither handsome nor svelte,
But one thing I’ve seen
On March-seventeen
Is everyone’s suddenly Celt.
Posted in diary, experience, instruments, intoxication, music, parties, person on January 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
Last night (and much of this morning’s early bits) was spent at j4 and addedentry’s housewarming. Despite their rashness in implicitly inviting all two million or so LiveJournal users, the house was merely comfortably crowded and, eventually, warmed.
By 3am I’d started on the guitar, and was in some laughable equivalent of Duelling Banjoes with the [...]
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