i. rise at 2.45am to get to Stansted. when i mentioned this to mum she recalled the long days when everyone’s car had a little campaign sticker – NO TO STANSTED! – bcz a third airport wasn’t necessary and it would death to som[…]

full moon over scratchwood
So I’m just back from a. real proper actual holiday abroad for the first time in more than 20 years (ie not a work-related trip and more than three days) (more on this when blog7 switches theme), and b. depping while[…]

Nine Unarguable Reasons why Synchronised Swimming is the Only True Olympic Sport
(as told to mark s by his top pal dr risk*) (and glossed a bit but NOT MUCH!!)
1. Dr Risk – who is three-quarters sea otter btw – wz captain of her college[…]

you know yr living in the future when
you discover that in predictive txt if you write “tongue” but omit the “e” you get “vomit”[…]

you know yr living in the future when
you read a headline like DRONES PING TERRORISTS’ MOBILES
(it’s up there w.”btw i haf queued all yr grime”)[…]

why are the bananas at pret so horrible currently?
if i weren’t going on holiday for two weeks to somewhere where they possibly don’t have prets (= france!) i wd pursue this fiercely –> they taste ok-ish kinda at point of chew but […]

How Now Christian Metz?
or: Giant Leaps Forward in Film Theory: “Similarly, running around a structure buried deep beneath Antarctica (it’s colder underground) without a hat for an extended period of time is ridiculous. And fighting an a[…]

Atrocity Exhibition as Primetime Drama: Actual Real Surgery on TV pt whatever [warning: long post]
The J. G. Ballard interview that I quote a bit of below took place in 1982, and a lot of the rest of it (unquoted) feels a bit dated now, even naive &[…]

towards the development of more bettah sports!![…]

the gold to ciba-geigy, the silver to roche…
half-watching that c4 prog on doping last night, mark s and the “unspecified guests” solved the moral-philosophical problem of chemical enhancement viz like in grand prix, the teams shd[…]