February 2009
19 posts
Blood, Fret and Tears →
Oh hey, I wrote this. Except that it debuted in print under the name “Bob Iver”…
January 2009
31 posts
“I heard the old, old men say,
‘Everything alters,
And one by one we drop...”
– William Butler Yeats
Guitar Hero Text Adventure
“You push the red button. The screen emits an unpleasant noise. A blue circle slides down the screen. Your utter failure to mimic a series of colored circles enrages the crowd, who storm thestage. Chaos ensues as someone grabs the guitar out of your hands and beats you overthe head with it, knocking you unconscious. Your prone body is trampled to death by the enraged audience. ...
Obama admits to a coming era of Glastnost? →
“Prince, you are what you are through the accident of birth; what I am, I am...”
– Ludwig van Beethoven, to his patron, Prince Karl Lichnowsky.
So here’s another song from my band’s...
Obama-man, Obama-man, does whatever an elected... →
Torturous tones of internet past →
I was most definitely a dial-up kid.
I have comments now!
That took far too much fiddling around with html and lots of wrong placements. All works now though, so feel free to tell me things about this here blog.
This is the first fully-mixed song from my band...
Bright Underground Spaces
I just bought this book from the London Transport museum. It’s all about the man who designed most of the stations built between 1920-1950 on the Tube, and how his designs proved to be as impacting on London (and thus English) culture as Johnston Sans. Also, the museum is my favourite place in the world to waste time, followed swiftly by the Tate Modern, if only because of...
pogonotrophy
jwannie:
wordjournal:
noun • the cultivation of a beard; beard-growing.
cf.: pogonology, the study of beards, and pogonotomy, shaving.
Wonderful.
