Sundays can be despicable. You wake up. The sun streams through your window at you. It’s as if the day is standing just outside your bedroom, screaming; “It’s a beautiful day, do something exceptional, make the most of it, seize it, do it, make it worthwhile, live, live, live!” Ugh. Funny how seize and cease…
Month: January 2022
I admire some pretty horrible people
People will let you down. Especially people you admire. I know because I admire some pretty horrible people. I am re-reading With Love and Irony by Lin Yutang. The first and last time I read the book was when I was 13 and I remembered it fondly. So much so that I included it in…
Why I won’t watch the Doomsday Clock Announcement this week
The Doomsday Clock Announcement is happening on the 20th January. And, while I’m desperately curious to know how close to our demise we are, I’m going to give the announcement a miss. We’re collecting world ending disasters I find it impossible to get a grip on how fucked the world is. There isn’t an anchor…
Dishonest Writing
I cringe when people compliment me on an essay I’ve published on this site, or on the fact that I have a blog at all. And this isn’t because I’m bad at accepting compliments. Instead, the compliments remind me of my dishonesty, my duplicitousness and that is what makes me wince. You see, I’ve been…
6 things I learnt after buying a typewriter
I never considered buying a typewriter. Typewriters simply didn’t appear in my version of reality. And now I have one. My mother was a prolific letter writer and I witnessed her writing machine evolution as I grew up. Her first typewriter was a teal Olivetti. I listened to the clacking of the typebars (the arms…