Train announcements – City of New Orleans

Not me – other people, always other people… It’s been interesting talking to people here (mostly those who aren’t active online social networkers) about the trip. Firstly they perceive the risk of the trip as a whole to be much greater – it’s clear that those of us who live a lot of our lives…

It's getting more and more exciting. Bits of corporate support and sponsorship are coming together, though no announcements yet. I've set up an IndieGoGo page for individuals to contribute and help spread the word.  If you want to help, of course a donation's great, but really really what I would love is if you could…

I wrote this while attending Uncivilisation a couple of weeks ago.  It became clear to me that uncivilisation is an ongoing process, rather than a state of being.  It’s a process of unlearning, removing complications and reversing out of evolutionary dead-ends.  It’s about unticking boxes.  It’s a process that I’ve been going through for about…

Now this is the home of, among other things, the Metropolitan Police Authority.  But in the spring of 1988 it was the first place that I went to work in an office in London. I’d just finished a few weeks at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham in the chorus of The King and I and I…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/nDrXaHsPRtA] This was the first Pro bout on the card – over in less than a minute.  I didn’t catch how old Neil was but he looks like a kid to me and he didn’t seem to stand a chance.  This is the kind of experience Nick may have.  Or maybe he’ll last longer.  Maybe…

I’m creating a little e-book (will probably put it on lulu.com so you can get hard copy too!) of reflections based on my travels since the end of June.  This is the prologue I’ve written  to explain what it’s about, I hope it whets your appetite for the whole thing! “This is a self-portrait –…