I have a thing for exposing photographic images at night. If you have a look back through some of my work I have posted on my Flickr site – you will see evidence to support my claim. I have committed this act again recently. On Christmas Eve, actually. It was bitterly cold, but the flames,…
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The stinkiest, yuckiest recipe
This is a recipe for something truly repulsive and non edible – created in the spirit of silliness by my son and I. We actually made this (sort of) and it was truly gross. Ingredients: 1 cup of grass 1 whole cup of slugs (real, imaginary or zombie) 2 rocks – crab-rocks if available (don’t…
Islands of words
I prefer to float my sentences of word islands to you over a smooth lagoon of warm precision. Reach into your mind and grip your paddle firmly as you guide your canoe to the first two-tone shore. Cut through that languid current, push with a last few strokes and beach softly into sugary sand. Leap…
Thalamus
So I cracked open my skull with the tiny little tool that comes with my nail clippers. You know the one, for scrooping the little bits of black funk out from the corners of your toenails. In retrospect, I might have chosen a less septic tool, But it was all I had the motivation to…
Alan of Venus: Sasquatch
I got it. Mr. Sasquatch is cruising through the leafy magnificence of his forest home, on the planet Venus. It is raining. It rains a lot on Venus. Have you seen satellite footage of the weather there? It is never. Ending. Rain. If you’ve never even seen a photo of the terrain on Venus —…
A terrible children’s story
Squishy Slippers Bernard the alligator behaved like a human male. A very bad human male with alligator-like tendencies to unpredictable bursts of brutal violence. It was autumn in the swamp. Autumn had never come to the swamp before, or it had never come for as long as Bernard could recall. The memory capacity of his…
footprints of the buddha
I’ve been thinking a lot about my quest for a “western buddha” – a meditation tool that is most understandable from a contemporary and western point of view. From every culture that buddhism has touched over the millennia, a distinctive iconography has emerged. The basics of the buddha have remained but the style and the…
I tweet
- @TheOnion has some kind of 5-page limit and a subscription-only policy now? Is this a joke? What the hell were those ads for?25/11/11 - 6:20 PM
- Alex spent two weeks battling the beavers who'd erected a lodge directly in the spring-fed pond from when his drinking water was drawn.24/11/11 - 8:22 PM
- Breathe the diesel fumes, seabreeze, woodsmoke, emmissions and fog. Arresting and absorbed.01/11/11 - 12:03 AM
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