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About Me

I have not given up on writing! In fact, some days words actually make it onto the page! Victory!
Things I am trying not to do lately:
go to weddings, watch rubbish tv, shop for things online, procrastinate, lose things, buy toy treehouses/ houses/ shoes, live in a bin.
Things I am trying to do lately:
write, make small creatures out of felt, not freak people out with stories of midge.
Lately I am mostly:
reading crap and not crap (anything not on thesis topic), photocopying, charity shopping, window shopping, sleeping.
Interests lately: Darmstadt, Mass Observation publications, Artistic communities c.1890s, workers housing c.1890s.
Just finished reading: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, really amazing, Ondaatje-esque. Was inspired by my visit to Imperial War Museum Auschwitz painting exhibition.
Now reading: Nikolski by Nicholas Dicker. I have hopes for it, we'll see.
It is freezing lately. NOW is the winter of our discontent.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Sandmannchen. Potapych.

My Blog

So I see

Right now I like:Haberdashery shops US crime dramasFilo mushroom, leek & greyure parcels from TescoClean socksClean bedclothesSaturday and Sunday papersLemon: lemon is the king of flavoursCottonPodcas...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Christmas again

Been thinking about non-Christmas Christmas movies....Die HardThe JacketHope and GloryDownfall (Der Untergang)Still thinking...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:22:00 GMT

Holiday spirit

In the interest of spreading holiday cheer I share with you some of my favourite holiday things...Excellent Christmas Story- David Sedaris's "Six to Eight Black Men" in Dress Your Family in Corduroy a...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:03:00 GMT

timelapse

Everyone likes something that may seem strange to others.I like time-lapse photography.
Posted by on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:01:00 GMT

London

My visit to the Imperial War Museum and it's exhibition "Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust"http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.2496 brought me Anne Michael's book Fugitive P...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Return of the Albatross

What I don't know about you now:What you thought, if you had feelings, or if you actually are dead on the inside.  How is it that once someone shows interest or affection for us that we take it a...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:01:00 GMT

cafe

[1890s Vienna] "A coffeehouse was an unusal place.  It was a public place, like a restaurant, but Vienna's coffehouses were highly specialized.  Journalists could be found at one cafe, artis...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Chairs

"67.  Richard found forty-four abandoned chairs in the streets of Berlin and showed them at his exhibition.         'They were so tired.  I wanted eve...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:46:00 GMT

famine

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Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT

feast

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Posted by on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:42:00 GMT