Non-fiction

On the plane from Toronto to Vancouver

Mesmerised by modulating maps (damn Nabokov, your mischievous dust lay safely inert in the print of the tenth-hand copy of Transparent Things I picked up at a yard sale in Toronto, until I opened it a

  6: Prague Diary

Monday 16th Day five.

  5: Prague Diary

Sunday 15th Day four.

  4: Prague Diary

We left the subway to even brighter sunshine. It was gorgeous.I like Mr Sun. I enjoy the way he touches me and gropes me seductively when Russ isn't looking.

  3: Prague Diary

Friday 13th Day Two.

2: Prague Diary

Once through the front door we knew that we were in the right place. The hall matched the pictures on the internet.

  1: Prague Diary

There's been a lot of talk about Prague lately, so I thought I'd post my travelogue excerpt from my diary of 2007. There's nothing in there that can hurt anybody.

The Off Color Solution

The Off Color Solution

The original special one

A review of Duncan Hamilton's account of his twenty year association with the iconic football manager Brian Clough.

  lollapalooza

this is about my trip to lollapalooza yesterday. i've never written seriously before, so any feedback at all is welcome.

Memories of the Ardoyne : A British Soldier's perspective

From my times in Belfast as a British Soldier. The catholic population didn't make my stay there any easier and I tried to help dilute the indoctrination.

  Ziggy Stardust Changed My Life

Written in Barcelona after buying a fifth hand Telecaster in a Second Hand store and riffing out 'The Jean Genie' in my hotel room.

  Out in the sticks

The kitchen clock says 8:11. Leaving my breakfast tray, I go and stand at the back door, a school bell in my hand.

the s-u-c-k-i-n-g song

Romney & Obama phoning Tel Aviv,
s-
u-
c-
k-
i-
n-
g!!

I. first comes Iron Dome.
($70 million dollars MORE of
US taxpayers money going straight
into Israel’s military defense)

29 July 2012

rugby, ball sports, money, discrimination

‘AND NO SUBSTITUTES!’ A “Dithertation” On Giving Up Electronic Entertainment for Lent (Almost)

“But is telly nice or horrible? It’s nice, definitely, I mean, do you know anyone who chooses not to have a TV?

Eish! London 5 August

Pain, and a difficult step to sort out my health...