It has just gone 3 in the morning and I am waiting a cab to take me to the airport – my own personal hell. Not only do I fear …
To keep a mouth shut
I have been thrown around from waking to sleeping and so haven’t been able to read any further into The End of Faith but it has been turning in my …
Fucked from Birth Part 3 :: "Mouth replaced – Tears removed"
As if the combined memories of Jon Benet Ramsey and Peter Sotos’s texts weren’t enough, those without shame continue to thrive, apparently – watch out for the overweight baby on …
Nocturne Radio
Just had a heart warming exchange with Jeremy from Nocturne Radio ( http://www.live365.com/stations/statik23 ) He has a few nice things happening over the next month or so – which I will …
Epistemological black holes… draining the light from our world
Sam Harris’s The End of Faith is that rarest of things – a well evidenced, highly informed and thoroughly researched piece of academic writing that is nonetheless emotionally charged, opinionated, …
Art by perpetrator – from reportage to pornography
A compelling article in the UKs guardian newspaper elegantly charts the artist’s inadvertent glorifying of war, leading to the stepping aside of the modernists, and the immediacy of contemporary media …
iPod Spears the Nostalgic Heart
I was a late converter to the iPod. The download generation is inherently lazy; there is no appreciation of the physical artefact, there is a distraction from the moment at …
A Small Step in the USA
I heard yesterday that Revolver are to undertake some distribution of PILGRIM in the States. The numbers being spoken off are pretty small – comically small actually – but it …
Goodness, Mercy and the Canonmills Heron
I attended a funeral this morning. There seems to be an ever increasing number of these in my life – and looking at the age and condition of many of …