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Previously unclassified posts which I am now in the process of sorting out and categorising properly. If I am successful, this category will disappear. Yay!
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09.17.01Nose BarometerIt's too cold to be September. I know, I know, some people are never satisfied, are they? Only a couple of months ago I was moaning about being too hot. And now I'm whinging because I woke up this morning with a cold nose.My nose is the first bit of me to get cold. It's like a personal thermometer. (Before you ask, it doesn't look like one. It's not long, thin and with a curious red bulb on the end. Well, except when I drink excessively, but then whose isn't?) Even when the rest of me is toasty warm, the ...
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09.16.01Fck ffI've got to agree with Zoe Williams about people abbreviating words when sending text messages. It smacks of laziness, and besides, there's no real need when so many new mobile phones have predictive text input. So using text abbreviations now is an affectation - and a rather droll one, at that.There are only a handful of people who send me messages containing strange TXT shorthand - 2morrow, l8r, CU nxt wk and so on - and it bugs the shit out of me, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. What I do know is this - I usually take ...
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09.11.01Unreal. Two planes have crashedUnreal. Two planes have crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. Try bbc or cnn for live news.I'm watching it unfold on sky and it's unbelievable. I've got a nagging sense of horror that the only suitable references I can find to describe the images on the newscast are from movies, the only cultural reference points we have. Movies. Like Die Hard. Like Bond. Like Independence Day. Like The Siege. Like nothing we've ever seen before. Exploding buildings. Unreal, unreal. Update, later: It's like picking at a scab. I feel completely saturated by information. I can't ...
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09.08.01StillGoing down to Covent Garden today, and I'm fully expecting to run into more than a few of these ridiculous street performers. So let me get this straight. You just sort of stand still, do you? And that's it? That's the sum total of your artistic pursuit, is it? Standing still for a while? Maybe posing a bit? Maybe covering yourself in white paint? Well blow me down if I don't give you an Academy award on the spot for your breathtaking talent and originality.Everywhere you go in Europe these days, from Liverpool to Lausanne, there are two things you're ...
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09.05.01In other news, my backIn other news, my back feels as if it is on fire. It hurts. A lot. Either it's completely seized up through stress or I've strained something - but either way, it feels like burning and it makes me want to cry.I've spent a good chunk of the evening lying on the hard floor with a book under my head (James Gleick - Genius - I'm hoping it'll penetrate my skull, somehow) and my knees bent (classic Alexander Technique etude) and it still hurts like hell. Honestly, it's so uncomfortable, like burning, like every muscle in my back is screaming, ...
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09.05.01Wise HorseYou can learn a lot about a country by its proverbs, I think. Armenian proverbs: "It is better to carry stones with a wise man than eat pilaf with a fool" "You don't water a camel with a spoon" "It is not he who has lived the longest, but he who has traveled the farthest, who knows the most" "If you do not know, it is not shameful, but if you do not know and say that you know, it is LIE" "Eat bad soup with a big spoon" "Never believe a woman who says she doesn't want mayonnaise on her baguette" "The curtain reveals as much ...
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09.04.01“God, people are so ******* rude sometimes”There's a guy walking down the road swigging from a plastic Coke bottle. He's got one hand on the bottle and the other on his crotch, for reasons I don't fully understand except that he might also be holding his trousers up - they're so low-slung and capacious I can see the bottom of his boxer shorts. He takes one last mighty swig from the bottle and then throws it - not even just a quiet drop - off into someone's front garden.For a moment, I'm tempted to repeat the action my mother must have done a thousand times when ...
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09.04.01Snapshots from a walk to workA woman spilling her purse on the platform as the train pulled in, visibly trying to decide which was more important: cash or commute? A couple blissfully engrossed in each other beside the train door, surgically attached at the lips Five new blue blazers on a corner, sneaking a cigarette before the first day of school A cyclist, feet bound to the pedals in special shoes, falling over at the traffic lights after wibbling and wobbling on the spot, waiting for the lights to change A geriatric man ordering a triple espresso in the deli, hands shaking so hard he couldn't count out the ...
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08.31.01*Puke*I've just come a small way towards understanding what a ham smoothie must taste like - the ham and cheese baguette I just got from the sandwich shop (not the armenians today - I was out buying kecks in Hammersmith and thought I'd try somewhere else) was so soggy it was like meaty soup inside a large damp crouton. Bleargh.
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08.30.01All NOT look same> chinese, japanese, korean: can you tell the difference?">All Look Same? (I scored nine). And now they should do one about accents. I cannot tell you how many times I've had to point out to cab drivers and random americans that I'm not Australian, Dutch or Irish.
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