Blather
2012
From The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna: ‘What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called “concrescence”, a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The “autopoetic lapsis”, the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, [...]
Tales from the Crypt
Sometimes I like to draw things. Not often, just sometimes. Recently I was asked to provide an illustration for The John School, a marvellous short story by my old pal Dan Powell that appears in the second issue of Dirty Bristow magazine. The John School is a morality tale set in kerb crawler rehabilitation unit [...]
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show vs Hackgate
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show take on the News International phone hacking saga wasn’t broadcast in the UK. Fancy that. Thanks to Andrew for the heads up.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt (reprise)
From Sky News last night: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzgIBVYQQ-Q
David Beckham is the new George Costanza, it seems…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUdaWZ4FN0
Naughtie Boy
This morning, I was getting ready for work while listening to Radio 4′s Today Programme. That’s just the way I roll. I skipped breakfast, which is probably just as well because this NSFW gem would have made me drop my toast: God bless you, James Naughtie – you made my day! I went to work [...]
The Exorcism of Ghede
“Among primitives, ‘possession’ implies that a god or demon has taken over a human body. Above [a Haitian] possessed by the god Ghede, who is invariably manifested in this position, legs crossed, cigarette in mouth” – C.G. Jung: Man & His Symbols It’s been exactly one week since my last cigarette…
One Froggy Morning
This morning, Clare, the kids and I watched my favourite ever cartoon, Chuck Jones’s classic ‘One Froggy Evening’. It’s funny, poignant and poetic. Steven Spielberg once called it “the Citizen Kane of animated film.” I can think of no better way to spend six minutes and fifty-three seconds. Incidentally, ‘One Froggy Evening’ is included in [...]
Pancake Daze
As I’m writing this its still Shrove Tuesday, albeit just barely. As you’re reading this it probably won’t be Shrove Tuesday any more, unless I suddenly develop the ability to type at a phenomenal speed or you happen to live in a different time zone. I never quite understood the point of Shrove Tuesday, but [...]
The clue is in the name
Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has been in the news a lot this week. These stories were all very serious issues that merit very serious discussion by very seriously-minded people. As I’m not a particularly seriously-minded person, however, I feel more comfortable turning my attention to something altogether more glib, trivial and frivolous. Namely, so [...]
Filakeo
‘You’ve all seen that Busch beer commercial where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, lets it foam over her hand and over the bottle and the voiceover goes: “Get yourself a BUSCH!” ‘Hmmm. You know what that looks like..?’ Bill Hicks – Relentless [...]
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