Right, turn off the part of your brain which thinks like an individual and think like society in general. The bit that has interesting conversations about the definition of X or the role of X or the deconstruction of X, tell it to fuck off for a short while.
Now, take the broad approach to definitions and concepts and [...]
Archive for August, 2008
An Exercise in labels.
30 August, 2008
Johnny Walker Blue Label: A review
28 August, 2008
It smelt of three play dough left out in the sun for too long, and had a colour like urine mixed with water. It tasted like nothing.
Some whiskeys aim to be light, and soft on the pallet (A good thing, considering the first thing any whiskey drinker learns is how to ignore the burning, throat [...]
Prose.
27 August, 2008
She wore stage jewellery and around her neck, with a faded faux kashmere shawl covering her shoulders.
She pulled the shawl tight against her chest, bringing her shoulders, both too large and too frail, into stark relief, giving her a sense of vulnerability that she refused to show on her face.
I looked at her as she [...]
An Affair
26 August, 2008
The phone rang. ‘I’ll get it,’ she said, slipping out of bed. Sitting there, watching her go, he was reminded once again that it was his best friend’s house, his best friend’s bed, and his best friend’s wife.
“Who was it?” He asked when she returned.
“My husband.” She replied, “He’ll be late. He’s playing golf with [...]
How bout that
25 August, 2008
Turns out, cockfighting involves chickens.
Boy was I embarassed.
I won though.
Dreams
24 August, 2008
When you sleep, your mind defrags. It goes through your memories, plays them back and stores them. Thing is, you dont just have one kind of memory. Physical, visual, olfactory, emotional, etc, are all different kinds of memory, even then they get stored differently – your visual memory might store colours in one way, faces in another, movement [...]
Restaurant Review
23 August, 2008
the restaurant was simple and unassuming, not a hint of pretentiousness about it, and it had been around for so long that it attracted a great army of customers, from the university students whose eyes boggle at the size of the portions for the price, to the elderly immigrant grandmothers, who meet there regularly to [...]
The linguist
22 August, 2008
The tribe of lost moscow university students who lived beneath a super computer and spoke only in l33t wasnt that scary to the linguist until he realised the tribes deaf members spoke only in emoticons.
Modern Magic
20 August, 2008
The Energy Drink Elemental was summoned to fight the dark god of Pirated Online Content. It spat guarana and would go all night long, but the POC god was legion. It lived on a million servers and in the flash drives of a billion people, worshipped over and over with every p2p established. It was [...]
Watch Media Watch.
19 August, 2008
No particular writings today, just thought I’d promote my favourite show on TV.
