Posted in anniversaries, communication, dickheads, far_away, holiday, location, occupation, opinion, rants, technology, telephony, time on April 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Brennig wonders how anyone could ring anyone else at 2.30am about a car. All I can add in terms of data points is that my birthday began earlier than I had planned this morning, as someone who’s either a quondam Iraqi translator, gangland supergrass, or Russian billionaire fallen from grace texted K. at a little [...]
Expect the current quiet on this blog to continue for some time. K. and I are currently in the process of starting the process of processing the eventual process of buying a house. Our most recent discovery is that ringing round solicitors for a quote is somehow more soul-destroying than ringing round estate agents: at [...]
Posted in art, cultural, far_left, love, metaphor, music, politics, public, society, songs, technology, transport, understanding, web on April 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Forward! with the great people’s construction project! May great successes befall the imagining of your beneficient representation through the medium of collectively owned urban transport infrastructure! Celebrate the greatness of both our interpersonal bonds and the proletariat’s cultural simplicity, through enhanced technological efficiencies!
Along with being uploaded to YouTube, Inaugural Trams (featuring Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy [...]
While planning on the phone for his arrival in Oxford tomorrow, I just referred to Looby as, er, Looby. He isn’t called Looby. Well, you know: any more than I’m called “sbalb” or “smallbeds”. It confused him quite a bit, and then his confusion confused me. I’m about to go upstairs and fox the hell [...]
Posted in art, entertainment, experience, here, humour, location, made_our_own_fun, oxford, plays, surprise on April 4th, 2009 4 Comments »
Oxfringe is huge this year, so huge that I can’t quite believe I had anything to do with it ages ago (and am quite glad I’m not having anything to do with it any more, having more than enough on my plate). There are dozens of acts, with John Hegley headlining at the Jac du [...]
Posted in belief, climate, emotions, environment, experience, far_right, fear, geography, inspiration, location, nature, person, politics, psychogeography, society, understanding on April 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
There’s a set of animals which, on my journeys home, have a particular quality that I’d describe—if pushed—as eldritch. Horses, deer, barn owls. All of these animals stir some atavistic sense of wonder and fear inside me, and when they fleetingly flash past me I can see how my ancestors thought of them as ghosts, [...]
Posted in cars, dickheads, education, experience, opinion, rants, safety, surprise, transport, understanding on April 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
Quick quiz: which side of the road do you drive on in the UK? That’s right: the left-hand side! Unless, that is, you’re AP05 DWW, a van from what appeared to be an utterly ungoogleable Oxford company called “Agency”. According to the stickers on their vehicles they’re something to do with putting out boards, but [...]
