February 2012
7 posts
January 2012
1 post
Roger, I had a very disturbing dream last night. In this dream I found myself...
– Lynn Lowry, Shivers, David Cronenberg
December 2011
2 posts
This will smart, my poor love. Our picnic is finished; the dark road is bumpy...
– From my second favourite Nabokov novel; ‘The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.’ A letter excerpt from a fictional novel inside a fictional novel inside a novel of fiction. Sigh. Beautiful.
Someone buy me a first edition please.
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
Tees for the Literate →
February 2011
6 posts
January 2011
3 posts
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/a-day-wit... →
December 2010
5 posts
A Scammer Story
This morning a scammer broke into my friend Alex’s account and sent me an email asking for money. The scammer then switched to a different account to continue the conversation. This account was exactly the same as my friend’s email with one crucial difference; ymail instead of gmail. I recognised the scam immediately and decided to have some fun. Here’s the transcript.
From: “Alexandra...
November 2010
4 posts
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
3 posts
http://tinyurl.com/24ecre9 →
June 2010
2 posts
the McFly effect
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the phenomenon of observing your parents interact with people they grew up with, which reboots their personalities into youth mode, reverting to a time before the last save point, when they were still dreamers and rascals cooling their heels in the wilderness, waiting terrified and eager to meet you for the first time.
May 2010
12 posts
5 tags
April 2010
3 posts
10 tags