I want to be a blogger. [Pause for effect.] Yes, you heard. Let me clarify that grandiose and possibly foolhardy statement. I want to be a normal blogger. No, really, I do. I want to post long-winded entries about my day at work, about getting so drunk last night that, like, I don’t even remember getting […]
I just went to see if the pair of cooing, lovesick pigeons who have been renting space on my balcony were up with the lark. As I am. When did I start envying birds that so many consider to be little more than troublesome vermin, riddled with disease and pestilence? I just went to see […]
Send me a photograph of the inside of my head. Take a step back, a step forward. Back again. Forward more. Snap. Shoot. Click. Shutter. Whirr. Throw caution to the wind, to the four points of the compass. Let your imagination run wild, because I know mine does. Give me a grain of colour, a […]
Don’t tell me that I don’t know what I’m doing. I know precisely what I’m doing. I am grabbing the moment, seizing it with both hands, twisting and strangling it until it lies limp, cold and unmoving in my arms. These few words are the deliberate, conscious act of taking an inward breath, whilst I hold […]
I have subsumed my true identity into an artfully constructed ball of elastic, elaborate confusion. A ball of insistently burbling communication, following hot on the heels of non-brief briefings. A ball of inconsistent and even ragged semantics that makes no sense in any language, be it artistic or technical. I am playing part(l)y politics, even […]