velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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fail we may / sail we must
I like big boats, and I cannot lie. Title via BLDGBLOG; apparently that couplet was tattooed on the forearms of the late Andy Weatherall. But it has double resonance for me right now. See you soon, UK. It’s been real.
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far gone & out
Farewell, little house. We had some times, did we not?
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boxing day
Twenty-four hours until load-out. Still lots to do. (That’s most of my library, there. And if you’re thinking “bloody hell, man, couldn’t you cull it a bit?” — well, yeah; that’s about half the size my library was a few weeks ago. Painful, but necessary.)
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”