Tales Of The Gurrier

We were on a break! Found in relation to this via Warren.

For some reason I am sitting alone watching The Breakfast Club on TV drinking whiskey for the second time in a month. No wait I wasn’t alone the last time. I think I’m caught in some kind of time loop. J.G. Ballard’s short story Escapement is about a man who gets caught in a time [...]

Title: Richard Dawkins and the Cluebat star in ‘Unnatural Selection’. The Pitch: Richard Dawkins is presented with a cricket bat hewn from the mast timbers of the H.M.S. Beagle. He then roams the earth with a camera crew pounding creationists in the face. Sample: Picture the scene, a high-school somewhere in the bible belt. The [...]

Good people today I bring you a rare treat. A tale crafted by The Bastard Kesey’s own fair hand. There are but two or three of these known to exist and this one came into my possession through great personal risk. I present it here that you may delight in a true talent at work. [...]

Well I met up with blogger and rising Welsh linguaphile/media star Chris Cope and his lovely wife Rachel on Saturday night for a few drinks. As with all the people I have met off the internet; Annie, Christyl, Brian and the Nano crowd they were charming, erudite, witty, vastly well informed and generally all round [...]

My life will not be complete until I possess the awesome power of The Megaphone Helmet.

Almost all had survived the war and seemed to be waiting for the next one, left behind by a race of warrior scientists obsessed with geometry and death. J.G. Ballard writing in the Guardian yesterday on modernist architecture. The architecture of death. Ballard is an astounding writer yet someone who has been part of the [...]

The Gin Lady is making her plans. Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.