Archive for October, 2009
So, Delilah had a case of Spontaneous Tyre Explosion going on yesterday morning: I guess I should consider myself lucky it wasn’t the bald tyre on the front, while I was driving, which has happened before. Except I was going to replace the bald tyre with the spare tyre, so that Delilah would be roadworthy and [ READ MORE ]
I am currently trying to get my shit together, and the likelihood of it ever happening is feeling increasingly elusive as I try to plan and work at the same time. Meanwhile I’m reading The Land of Plenty by Mark Davis1, which isn’t helping. He’s going on about the ‘prosperity scandal’ and the mythologies that have [ READ MORE ]
A couple of months ago I was hungover and hungry and I’d just woken up at Ronnie’s place. For ages it’s been something of a personal hangover ritual of mine to make it to the Queen Vic Markets, which are right near his apartment, and get a bratwurst. These are not just any bratwurst – they’re thick, [ READ MORE ]
we’re squatting because yesterday we got rained out of the camp grounds. the place has new carpets, so we take off our shoes. the kitchen is partially carpeted, and a light came on behind the locked door when we got the electricity going. I wish I could still imagine Rochester’s wife or something equally sinister, but [ READ MORE ]