I went to the Gerhard Richter show, which had some very good works. But all his art is so distant and dispassionate, it's kind of depressing. The show is free for under-22s, which is fairly bizarre, but there did seem to be some young 'uns. It's all works from private collectors, so I deduce the primary reason for the show is to boost the value ( Read more... )

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Also:
* Cicero - Live For Today
* Dear santa please can I have a Nuclear salt-water rocket for Xmas?
* While researching my Diana tribute a few entries ago I found a classic news story from the past: Mourners flock to wrong village.
* Is the Blue Peter theme music broken? The internet is abuzz with discussions over whether they have THE WRONG ( Read more... )

I started reading Robinson by Chris Petit. It's probably a bad idea to read half a book about seedy London, pornography, drunkenness, voyeuristic dwarves, and second-hand book dealing right before sleep. My dream did not feature any second-hand books. I spent all of my working hours yesterday reading about European history on Wikipedia. Those ( Read more... )

My stepmother always goes on at anyone with a cold to sleep with your head propped up high. I did that last night and now my head is much clearer, but my neck is really stiff and sore. Sigh. Oh well, I thought I had appendicitis or a broke rib yesterday but it was probably indigestion. Yay, I am an old man complaining about my illnesses. ( Read more... )

I started looking into my trip to London in January. There are lots of train tickets still available, but fewer hotels. Glamorous Whitechapel? Better than Feltham. I'm also considering NaNoWriMo and think I should write a really difficult-to-write experimental thing so that if I fail after 3 days at least I will have justification. As opposed ( Read more... )

Last night in a dream I had the best idea for a National Novel Writing Month novel: plot, characters, everything. But I'd forgot it when I woke up. So I'll have to hope it was one of those dreams where you think you have the secret of the universe, rather than one of those dreams where you realise the chemical structure of benzene. I also woke ( Read more... )

Dark confession. I bought a magazine of Sudoku and similar puzzles today. In my defence, I was listening to Yoko Ono's Rising tonight while doing the puzzles. I'm not sure how I'd react if my mother screamed and panted like that. But obviously I uphold Yoko's right to do it, since Sean seems cool about it. Also, my mother was never affiliated ( Read more... )