Archive for May, 2010
Stuffing it ceremonially into the milk jug
“Minimalism”, I once wrote in these very pages, “is anorexia projected outwards”. This suspicion that my ongoing dedication to asceticism might be a mental illness was further demonstrated this week. “It’s pathological!” my girlfriend teases me after I decline a carrier bag at the pharmacy. As a result of doing so, I had been forced [...]
Bookfair appearance
I know most of my friends and fans live in Britain but if any of you are in Québec, I’ll be spreading Escapological whimsy at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair on 29th and 30th May.
The damning evidence of a further level of preparation
On our way to sunbathe in the park, my girlfriend and I chanced across three uniformed policemen enthusiastically singing ‘Jingle Bells’ by the roadside. One of the officers was even keeping their rhythm with a set of sleigh bells, adding quite the festive vibe to an already merry scene. I’m not sure which was the [...]
Typographic bounty hunters
Reading a library copy of Haruki Murakami’s South of the border, West of the sun today, I noticed that someone had fixed a typographic error in the book by penciling an ‘r’ into the misprinted word, ‘unb oken’. The manual correction of typos in library books strikes me as a slightly odd thing to do [...]
