December 2009
18 posts
New Year's Resolutions
1: Move in celebrity circles.
2: Call any child I have ‘Rain’.
Conversation aid
I’ve learnt a number of ‘stock’ questions to use when conversation with strangers becomes slow and lacking - where are you from exactly? How does (current town) compare to (hometown)?
That sort of thing.
There are twelve questions in all, committed to memory, with adaptable variants depending on context. I prefer some to others. You look well, tell me your secret? can get you...
Work (1)
I was with a girl from work and we broke up. We haven’t spoken to each other since. We still work together. She does this thing where she walks past my desk and drops tiny pieces of food into my hair.
Oh,
And…
Things to let our children know: Light & double...
When light travels through glass it refracts, changing from good to evil (and vice versa), depending on depth and other contributing factors. When it passes through a window into your room, (and the window must be the first piece of glass the light has encountered), it becomes harmful, and will bring on headaches, induce lethargy; things not exactly life-threatening but that will nevertheless...
Things my sister did (1)
As a kid, my sister insisted on wearing outfits in complete monochrome. She wore the hell out of red, head to toe, but other colours too: green, yellow, orange. In the summer our washing line was a rainbow.
She had started to understand the value of opinion - something she hadn’t considered important until then - but problems had developed through her inability to determine which specific...
It'll be nice if at least one person likes it
I’m in the process of making a film. I haven’t got a name for it yet, but people are already talking about the possibilities - how 3d animation is fast becoming the next great narrative form. After months of speculative optimism - of ‘hoopla’ and the like - it will deliver on the required number of levels to result in a collective sigh of relief - a huge, welcome gust of...
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Family context (it's perhaps important to start...
I saw my cousin at the weekend. It was his birthday. He likes to ‘plan ahead’ but is often difficult to contact. Out of the blue he’ll send me an email (from the library I think, he doesn’t have his own computer) giving me a fairly accurate idea of future plans.
He titled this one Hey Ho, Let’s Fucking Go:
“We’ll have a small lunch on Saturday. Pasta or...