Together in Cordoba
A poem and illustration (in four more detailed parts) produced as my contribution to an Internet-based co-operative project.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
Disparate days in Leeds with Jonathan Kershaw
My plans for today were sidetracked by the Word for Today on Artwiculate.com: Disparate. Disparate means various, utterly different, unlike. Long ago I started writing a book with the working title Disparate Days. It was a memoir of the year and a half I spent as a student in Leeds, where my housemate was Jonathan … More…
Not now, Cora!
There are some great lines in Fantastic Voyage (some of them cited below), but I ended up going for a cheap joke at the expense of Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. I was inspired by the strip in the middle of the postcard above here, which is a still from the DVD. (What she’s actually … More…
The Case of Viscount Visage
The Case of Viscount Visage: Sheerluck Helmse and his faithful sidekick Carruthers set out on a surreal journey to track down a murderer.
Swimming alone
I thought today about swimming alone in an empty pool. That time in Finland when I found myself / alone at the baths in Kouvola and was able to swim back and forth completely without anyone else to take account of.
Svengali and Trilby
Svengali and Trilby – After the coalition agreement between the Tories under Cameron and the Lib Dems under Clegg, who will play Svengali?
Proportional Representation. Now.
Some form of proportional representation is the preferred voting model in most democratic countries, but not in Britain. Isn’t it time?
So this is what you mean by democracy?
Democracy! A reaction to the British General Election of May 2010, my history of being enfranchised and disenfranchised, some thoughts about PR and FPTP.
But isn’t that Fredrik Reinfeldt?
Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden’s Prime Minister, has a look-alike in England who appears in a screenshot of British Tory leader David Cameron out polling.
Learning to swim
In the baths today, swimming my 40 lengths, I was trying to remember learning to swim, but the memory’s lost somewhere in the chlorine haze.