The markets have gone haywire again today, and the last figures available show that unemployment is up. I was wondering, if we are heading for some sort of great depression-style meltdown, will we all start wearing hats? Back in the thirties everyone in the dole queue, dustbowl migration and workers march seemed to sport a […]
I can get pretty zoned out in a supermarket. The process has removed grocery shopping to an almost televisual experience. We glide between the silent aisles, led from one colourful box to the next enticing package, before being spat out onto the street. It’s an advert break with no TV programme.
Push into a street-market and […]
Deptford can sound a little ominous. Perhaps it’s the word that sounds like just the place to find a pawnshop or loan shark, but then it could be the place’s reputation never recovered after Christopher Marlowe’s murder. That was 500 years ago, but I’d never visited before this weekend.
Autumn and I made a trip down […]
Lucky for George W Bush, he doesn’t have to get himself elected again this November. I doubt he’s worried though, he seems to have done his job pretty well. He’ll be remembered as the most perfect of sheikhs, if he really is a secret member of Al Qaeda.
Dubya seems to fit the bill as an […]
