Service Message: archive content

by | Feb 19, 2011 | Service Message

Folks – I am importing The Other Side of The River archive and cleaning it up at the same time. The blog may go a little screwy – technical term – while I am doing this. Hang in there: it should be much easier to find cool stuff as a...

Back in business

by | Feb 6, 2011 | Diary, Personal, Psychology

Things went quiet. I try to take some time to recharge at the end of a long draft. If I write anything during that time, it’s usually short stuff as an exercise rather than with any intention of trying to publish. This time round I had an altogether different...

He rides again…

by | Jan 25, 2011 | Diary, London, Personal, Travel

Yesterday was my first day on my new commute. I haven’t changed jobs. After several years experimenting with commuting by train, and alternatively by foot, I finally decided that the only viable solution was to combine the two thus eliminating the wasted time...

Mondays

by | Jan 24, 2011 | Cool stuff, Music, Video

Mine was pretty good: not withstanding my clumsiness. However, I like the SF undertones mingled with the melodrama that underscored the late seventies and early eighties of this particular song. Here’s the Boomtown Rats from 1981 with the obvious but fun...

Weird

by | Jan 21, 2011 | Comedy, Diary, London, Personal

It’s midnight. We are in bed. There is the sound of hollow rumbling from the sodium lit, wet leather, street outside. I look across at you. The dark gleam of your eyes tells me you are awake. “What’s that?” you ask. “I don’t...