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The Beijing I miss
Published on 2010-08-23 05:05:00
It being a particularly gorgeous day today (autumn seems to have arrived two or three weeks early; only fair recompense for the non-occurrence of spring this year), I decided to walk home from a morning recording gig up in the university district - a matter of some 8 miles; 10 or 12 if, as I did, you take 'the scenic route'.It's the first time I've done that in a year or two. In fact, it's the first time I've undertaken a major ramble (outside of the familiar hutong districts near where I live)
Bon mot for the week
Published on 2010-08-22 19:18:00
"No-one anywhere really knows what they are doing even 50% of the time."'Northern Zephyr' (a blogger who dropped by with a comment on here a few weeks back)The 'Zephyr' is a motor mechanic somewhere in the USA, who describes himself self-mockingly as "just a knuckle dragging, dead in the head, wrench turner" (I don't think he was in earnest; not about the middle bit anyway). This line is from his opening post, just over three weeks ago. I enjoyed his short piece on the frustrations of dealing
Not quite what I was looking for
Published on 2010-08-22 03:12:00
I wanted to root out another favourite piece of Philip Larkin for a 'Poetry Sunday' post today, but my Internet researches proved fruitless.Well, not entirely fruitless. I did find this: Larkin's Joint, a rather charming-looking restaurant on the corner of Loleta Avenue and Colorado Boulevarde in Eagle Rock, California, offering "contemporary soul food".Yes, food for the soul indeed, but not what I had in mind.If I had any talent for parody, I would now dash off a very amusing short fantasia on
