Gang, I’ve just seen ‘The Roses’ and I’m going to deploy my degree. Read on for analysis but also spoilers, in case you haven’t read ‘The War of the Roses’ or seen ‘The War of the Roses (1989)’.
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S15E03: a complicated week
This has been a really anxiety-inducing week and I can’t much talk about it, which leaves me wondering just how much value these notes will be for me in the future. Let’s see. Perhaps there’s something in how I’m managing it that might be worth revisiting.
Continue readingS15E02: In defense of freedom
I’m thinking a lot about safety and freedom and consequences this week.
Continue readingS15E01: The identity function
I’ve been multipled by 1, lads. A process has happened but I’m still the same, though in all honesty it’s hard to tell. This week: misremembered philsophical conundra, a review of my performances, and an attempt to remember everything I’m doing at the moment.
I’m doing too much at the moment.
Continue readingS14E14: Friends fear he’s back on his nonsense
I am swimming against the tide, I know, I know. I know that the last time I talked about this people wrote to me and thanked me for helping cure their otherwise incurable insomnia but, gods, this stuff is important. The way we use language and think about things is important.
This week: accountability, responsibility, shit policy and death of the author.
Continue readingS14E13: Everything all at once
The city is alive these days. She grasps at the sky with concrete fingers that seem to spring up at every corner. I see them rising from my window, illuminated from the east. The sun considers them steadily, and his gaze falls also on my black cat. He is as black as the night sky, which is to say not black at all, or perhaps all the colours of black.
He grasps for a touch, and I wonder what it would be to touch a city.
Continue readingS14E12: discombobulated
“You should be a magician,” she said.
“A magician?”
She rolled her eyes, laughed. “No, a politician. Although, is there much difference?”
“Yes,” I thought. “Magicians know they’re pretending.”
S14E11: The sun is out
I am unhappy about this fact. Summer is awful: a stark, staring presence that overhangs everything, that intrudes at my window and turns gentle shadow to sharp line.
It shortens my temper and ruins my focus. It is focussed by the places I love, turning a city of glass and steel into a maze of scorching, blazing beams. It turns what I love into something I can’t stand.
Anyway, the sun has got his hat on. Bastard.
Continue readingS14E10: Following the process
Ah, but to follow the process, young one, you must first find the process.
I’ve been in a lot of meetings this week. We’ve got a deadline coming up, which is helping to focus the mind. Actually, there are a lot of deadlines coming up. Oh no.
Continue readingS14E09: A ticking clock
This has been a pretty intense week. I’m going to try to extract the things I’ve learned from it, like juice from an orange.
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Caffeinated Punctuation 