Tweet I have been upgraded to Economy Plus. This has never happened to me before - probably something to do with the cheap airlines I frequent on which customers scramble to the boarding gate early to seat themselves as opposed to the composed seat assignment carried out by Virgin and Continental. Nothing is different in … Continue reading Aisle seat 29G, somewhere between LA and London time..
Tweet So here I am again: I find myself back in frisky Frisco, $35 and 5.5 hours later. My driver is Stephanie, a petite, charmingly crude final year student with devilish blue eyes and a wicked sense of humour. We are taking another passenger, a guy who is silent half the time and has his … Continue reading Spring breakaway
Today I got a helix (top of my ear) piercing. Nothing special about that - but there is a unique attractiveness in knowingly mutilating your own body. Whenever I get a piercing done, I have to make the decision spontaneously. Obviously I will consider what I might like as I daydream in the preceding months, … Continue reading Feeling the Pop
Bicycles have two wheels, One for you and one for me. But fitting two on one small seat Has some difficulty. We'll ride around in the sun But eventually we'll get saddle sore And we'll go back to walking alone The way we did before.
Tweet “make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of … Continue reading Time is going by … in Yosemite National Park
Tweet It's gloriously sunny, but freezing. A young homeless guy sits on a corner of Columbus Avenue, gently smoking weed from a glass pipe the way they do here, with two of his friends. He offers it to our group as we walk by. He has a beautiful face and a shock of curly black … Continue reading If you’re going to San Francisco… wear a coat
Tweet Since my arrival in this land of plenty, I made the conscious decision not to make use of a mobile phone. Initially, this was down to sheer laziness - everything was so hectic the first week, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of locating a phone shop and setting up an American number, … Continue reading The curse of smartphones and social media
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - Jorge Luis Borges ------------------------------- Above the flow of the River Styx Not through verity, but through tricks The sweet ambrosia her lips betwixt Lay the goddess Aphrodite; And like a maiden smiling she Giving him no chance to flee The … Continue reading Aphrodite
She did not think that she would sink Into that Well again But there it spreads like black ink. Newspapers on the street swirl at her feet; Endless fury, a never ending story. Memories of speeding between the lines, Running from fines. She shies from the print, sucks on a mint. Sticky fingers. Finger prints. … Continue reading Limbo
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