It’s red pepper drying season, which means that approx. 82% of available floorspace in the entire country is covered in these little critters. The peppers, I mean. My brother sent me this link, and eventhough I delished it, I’m putting…

This is from ‘camp’. I like this foto because it’s got this wartime quality to it, what with the bandaging, and also because it looks kinda gay. If I emailed this to my mum and said, ‘hey mum, I’ve gone…

Here’s two poems I remember reading several years ago, while sitting in the backyard in G.West. They’re from a collection of Japanese poets, translated by Renaissance man, Kenneth Rexroth. I sit at home In our room By our bed Gazing…

He’s not sleeping, he’s gone off his food, you try talking to him and you can get his attention for 8 or 10 seconds then he looks away and starts staring off into the distance. He wanders around without really…

Well I must say it’s nice to be back in my concrete box. After another $40,000 cab ride to ensure I got back in time I waddled off to woirk yesterday morn to find no one there – and that…

Once upon a time I had 12 children. Here are the names I gave them and why: Bettina. I just like the name. Janis. After the woman who taught me short story writing. She’s a inspiration in that she writes…

They grilled us for four hours solid, there in that breezeless, off-white stained room. It did have a window but the view was crap. “What’s your favourite colour?” “What job would you like to when you grow up?” “What is…

This thing is interesting.

With little to do waiting this month out, and with a TV for a while, I’ve been watching major league (yanky) baseball. The local league is pretty boring, they seem to play every night but no one ever goes. I…

I went to the beach called Jinha beach last Monday. It was horrifying. Piles of rubbish everywhere. Cigarette butts, this huge half-chunk of a brick half-submerged where the tide was sickily ebbing in. The sand was coarse and grainy, the…