Category: Personal
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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She's Un'armed, Folks!
Dear Maria got up at 5am this morning, so she could get to work for 7. On a Saturday. That’s retail! I spent the afternoon with a plumber, getting our boiler fixed. Her work day done, at 4.30pm we met at Daunt Books in Belsize Park, to go and give Christmas presents to my auntie…
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My Recent Photos
Recent Images, originally uploaded by Hot Grill. 1. The White Horse of Billericay, 2. Too Many Signs, 3. The Gap, 4. Beautiful Big-Eared Piggles, 5. Freaky Teddy Bears & Doll, 6. 170309 105, 7. Worm, 8. Mannequin, 9. The White Horse of Billericay
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Found in a notebook
In moments of solitude, my mind, once far-ranging, now only homes in on one phrase; “mi amo”. I don’t speak Italian or any of the Romance languages, save Latin, so I don’t know what it means, but I’ve a feeling that my hindbrain /thinks/ it knows what it means; “my love”. I mumble it to…
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Fragmentary Day
I stopped blogging for a long time, I don’t know why, comfort perhaps. Stimulus to restart? “Holocause is Coming”, “All Jews Must Die” and “Juden Mord” written in chalk on the road outside my house in Golders Green – not targetted at me, but at the local community. I thought our area was wonderfully mixed…
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PR Happiness
According to my timesheet at work, last week I worked sixty five hours, not including freelance. If I’d been at Future, I would have begrudged every moment of that stolen time, in my penury and misery, but here in the glossy, happy world of PR it’s varied, exciting, and interesting; my only irritation is that…
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Shuffle Sex
xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language I think my most embarassing one has to be the entire Best of Bonzo Dog Doodah Band following in quick succession – nothing kills the mood like the Intro & Outro (“Please welcome – Adolf Hitler on vibes”) and then trying to save a situation…
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It’s not complicated, it’s over.
So. Jill split up with me. Here’s how it went. My friend Chiarina, who I’ve not seen for too many years, had mailed me months ago with a life update, demanding I send one packed with revelations back to her. Being an open sort of person, I was open about nearly all the crap that’s…
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Respect & Imprecision
Normally, I let things slide. I don’t mind minor errors, I don’t try to argue with the fanatics and I look upon friend’s idiocies as endearing foibles. When I do argue, it doesn’t bother me, it’s just a laugh. Yet in the last few weeks, my prissiness has got the better of me and I’ve…
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There's Something Floral Here
websiteasgraphs Originally uploaded by Hot Grill. I really like the images produced by this little gizmo (link deleted for safe browsing after it was compromised.) In case you can’t be arsed following the link, it turns websites into geometric representations, in a most charming manner. Here’s the legend, if you care. blue: for links (the…