“My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that… and there I’d be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk… honking [...]
Continue Reading“Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man… living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and [...]
Continue ReadingNightclubs are hell. What’s cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots? Charlie Brooker Monday August 13, 2007 The Guardian I went to a fashionable London nightclub on Saturday. Not the sort of sentence I get to write very often, because I enjoy nightclubs less than I enjoy eating wool. But a glamorous friend [...]
Continue Readingby Paul Simms April 30, 2007 The New Yorker ================ Well, well, well. Just look at you, walking into this dreary bar and lighting the place up like the noonday sun at midnight, twirling a lock of your long auburn hair pensively as you search the room—for what? For a soul mate, perhaps? (I know, I know—I hate that phrase, too. [...]
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