Category: General
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Alibi
Back at the beginning of the summer, I went to Hoxton to meet a couple of friends for afternoon beers and a chinwag. On the way, I saw the Google Streetview car passing up and down the street; much as I suspected at the time, it has temporarily immortalised me, trapped me in a freeze-frame…
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Moveable feast
So, Easter rolls around once more. In recent years, Easter has become the pivot point of my annual circuit around the sun; Eastercon has a little to do with that, as does the standard 12-month rented housing contract. It’s probably amplified by the fact that I don’t celebrate Xmas or my birthday, too. Which isn’t…
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Nosferatu
Yesterday afternoon, the ever-lovely @littlemoog dropped me a line to see if I fancied catching a screening of the classic silent movie Nosferatu at the Prince Charles Cinema, just off Leicester Square. We’d discovered the Charlie a few weeks back, thanks to Sophie Meyer – tutor of the just-about-finished Short Form module of my Masters…
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Oscar Night
Big fuck-off Hollywood / and the paradox of tolerance / the engineering of consent / an America for Americans / preserved in amber / like genes for dinosaurs / and dreams of the powerless. [Death to Hollywood… ] # There’s a big fuck-off Hollywood / in a church built by slaves / where all glitters…
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A postcard from Chelsea
So, the last three weeks have been busy. This is an understatement. Let’s start with geography. I have once again left Velcro City behind me. Yes, this was rather sudden, but a shift of situation was followed immediately by the sort of opportunity that it would be madness to pass up on. When the wind…