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Game of Drones
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Just watched the opening episodes of Game of Thrones. Until recently I imagined it was a video game: a world all but invisible to me. Turns out it's a television series. Melodrama. It's a kingdom ...read more
Blurlin
Last night was an event called The Long Night of the Design Studios in which studios threw their doors open and invited people to come look. Cheeses were carved on raw plywood platters and I ...read more
in kindly whispers
Long night ride home between the trees, the trees, the trees. They are dark and tall and reach down into the night, yearning away wild from the centre of the earth its boiling core. They ...read more
pearl-sheaves
Ran across the same little punk dog we'd met with last week, a scruffy little dude with green dye in his hair. His name is Schnitzel. I know this because he came scampering up the ...read more
strapped down
On the above-ground train we are travelling through the treetops. Everybody's head is framed in green. My companion takes a photo, covertly: the flash makes everyone look up. Now I realize that the acetate smell ...read more
whiskey sour
Dear God, if there is a god. Save my soul, if I have a soul. Today grew miserable and I cannot say why. It was silly really. Guy in a cafe was rude. So rude! ...read more
exact same clothes
Landsakes, do I feel cute. I helped someone out with some really boring writing work and feel all neighbourly & useful. We decided to celebrate with a beer. I had opened my two storage boxes ...read more
while it lasts
One thing I love about Germany is that you can find local bakeries who'll treat you like diners in a restaurant. You can choose a bread roll filled with lettuce and cheese, or raw mince ...read more
some order
I find Berlin the most extraordinary city. Nothing is regular, not that in my life anything ever is. I guess in an individuality-seeking cult/ure this sounds boastful or false-meek, but I have spent a lifetime ...read more