someone said my uk pictures and the captions for them were boring.
here’s a picture of someone:
Hamish the Highland Cow, Scotland
how to deal with critics
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
we ignore these warnings
‘In Your Face Tomorrow, the main subject is the near impossibility of knowing what a face, in a metaphorical sense, can bring us tomorrow. We tend to believe we know what to expect from the people around us, the people we love. Even if we have hints of things we don’t like, we ignore these warnings. One of the things Sir Peter Wheeler says is that people do not want to see any more, they do not want to be alert.’
sicilian lemons
FT:
Ferrero’s (creator of Nutella, Tic Tacs and Kinder Eggs) latest invention is a dessert tasting of Sicilian lemons called Gran Soleil which, when put in the freezer and shaken, turns into a kind of ice-cream.
qui peut dire où vont les fleurs
Columbia Flower Market, London, November 2009
till death
And every week two women are killed by a current or former partner in England and Wales, and 10 women take their own lives as the only way they know how to escape a violent partner.
emotional education
For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional educations, which are unsupervised and haphazard. This is odd, since our emotional educations are much more important to our long-term happiness and the quality of our lives.
cleanse my lips, here i am
Hyde Park, London, November 2009
pass me by the crowds of people
Green Park, London, November 2009
most accurate
miles and miles
I try to understand the ocean beneath the thin layer of ice that is civilization. There’s miles and miles of deep ocean, of darkness and barbarism. And I know the ice can break easily.
do not
there is this theory, believed by many, that doing is more important than not doing.
action speaks louder than words. don’t just stand there, do something. seize the day.
as for me, the things I did not do – did not take credit, did not defend myself, did not spend that money, did not become an asshole, did not lecture, did not expose secrets, did no harm – these are the things i am happiest about.
emptiness is something
When the narrator of “The Fling” finally faces up to the fact that he has no love or comfort to give his father, he says of himself, “I was all smooth surface with nothing inside except emptiness.”
why we write
Colum McCann on winning the National Book Award:
As fiction writers and people who believe in the word, we have to enter the anonymous corners of human experience to make that little corner right.
last night you took me to the mall and then it started to get physical
each and every single day I know I’m going to have to eventually give you away
Hyde Park, Nov 2009
it’s not that I wanna say goodbye
Hyde Park, Nov 2009
gay space
Lady: “You are my happy place. I want to know, what is your happy place?”
Bon Jovi: “I love it when women talk about their happy place.”
no horsing around
[16:49] non-profit worker:: how was ur trip?
[16:49] non-profit worker:: what was the highlight?
[16:50] me: riding the carousel in front of the natural history museum?
[16:50] non-profit worker:: oooo… nice hwat
[16:50] non-profit worker:: so romantic
[16:51] me: it hard’s to romance a mechanical horse
(photo censored since at last count, I have at least 18,000 enemies)
hanky spanky
while searching for the ever elusive Scream My Name for its biggest fan, i came across another title, Blushing at Both Ends (sub-titled “A Masterly Collection of Correctional Measures”), which of course I now regret not buying.
