Those of you who have been following this site for a while may remember that while working in Camden Town, I would regularly spot and photograph street art as it appeared on a rather nondescript back street by the name of Stucley Place (AKA Shit Alley). It occurs to me now, that I have never…
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Guinness and Illicit Affairs in Dublin City
I can’t escape the feeling that I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on this posting platform in apology for not posting enough. I fear that this might be another such occasion. However, I am not without my reasons/excuses. In the last 3 months I have changed jobs (yet again), moved to a new…
Violence, sleaze, drugs, and filth in Hollywood
An itemized list of my impressions of Los Angeles There’s very little I can tell you about Los Angeles that hasn’t been already been said countless times before. There is no new revelation to be found in repeated tales of shattered dreams and careless degeneracy in the Hollywood Hills. You know all about that stuff already, everybody knows it….
Take Courage – Travel in London
The weather has been almost intolerably warm in the capital these last few weeks. To be honest, I’ve been struggling. It’s rare that I don’t get a funny look when I confess to my distaste for hot weather, but it’s the truth. A sun worshipper, I am most definitely not. In fact, I was never…
Hangin’ with the fishes.
I’m told that the collective noun for Koi is a Koromo, but I’m not exactly sure if that’s the truth – or even if these fish were definitely Koi.
Words to hear your first time in Cannes
“I’ve been coming to Cannes for 16 years and this is the worst weather I’ve ever seen here.” I’m not sure why it had to rain so appallingly for my first visit to Cannes. If I was the suspicious kind, a paranoid Alex Jones or David Ike type, I would almost put it down to some elaborate…
A visit back to Camden Town
I was of a mood to visit my old haunt of Camden Town yesterday morning and after a swift Italian coffee and a train across the city, I was once again reunited with this grubby (but infinitely curious and somewhat endearing) corner of North London. To argue that everything is just as I left it…
A dialogue
A dialogue Carefully settling his steaming cup of extremely hot coffee and throwing his knapsack under the desk, he signs into the computer and turns to the freelancer who’s been working in the office for about a week-or-so now. “Good morning,” she says before he’s able to offer the same. “Good morning,” he gives…
A Mural in Westbourne Park
Just a quick one today. I recently started a journalism course near Westbourne Park, West London. On my way to class last week, I caught site of this impressive mural on an otherwise wholly unremarkable street. I’ll post something more substantial in the the next week or so. You can now follow my increasingly strange…
A Typical London Argument
The altercation, as transcribed exactly by your correspondent, with neither editing, censor nor commentary, occurred between three persons at the Docklands Light Rail station in Shadwell, a district in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. It is the belief of the writer that what follows is the direct realisation and representational analogue to those most…
Aftermath of the Grenfell London Tower Fire
I woke this morning to a rather peculiar text message from my employer warning that transport around the office had been disrupted due to a major fire in a West London tower block. Knowing nothing more of the incident, I quickly went to BBC News and was staggered by the images of Grenfell Tower ablaze in the early…
Press to reset the world
It’s been quite a few weeks since I published anything, so please accept my apologies. We were in East London at the weekend and had time to photograph the new street art on display for your pleasure. Just a short post today as I’ve been having trouble typing recently. Hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves….
A typical Antifa demonstrator’s protest experience as told through a Spotify playlist
A typical Antifa demonstrator’s protest experience as told through a Spotify playlist “Come out and Play” – The Offspring . “I Wanna Be Heard” – Social Unrest “Fuck the USA” – The Exploited “Resisting Tyrannical Government” – Propagandhi “Kill the President” – The Offspring “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” – Dead Kennedys “And We Fight” –…
When Eddie Van Halen met Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth: 1946-2017 Since I have been somewhat under the radar over the last few days, I am a little behind on the news. Sadly, I discovered this morning that one of my all time favourite guitar players, Allan Holdsworth, passed away over the weekend. You will not find an obituary for Allan in any of the popular newspapers, and I…
Do not pad ignorance with eloquence
Yesterday afternoon I found myself in that peculiarly liminal space between the end of one book and the beginning of another. I am usually careful to set up my next read well in advance, however, on this particular occasion, I’d hit a dead end. There are more books on the shelf in the living room than there is time…