I aspire to be meringue—
sweet airiness
just scorched enough for flavour—
but recently I seem to be
a rock cake.
Or on a good day,
a doorstep sandwich.
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Month: April 2007
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Manchester United 7, Roma 1
That’s what you watch sport for. All the dreary 1-1 draws are justified by an evening like that. Not that a 1-1 draw can’t be entertaining, but you need the crazy, Hollywood nights from time to time as an inoculation against cynicism and boredom.
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via wmmna: Justine Cooper’s photos of the storage areas at the American Museum Of Natural History in NY
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via Coudal, maybe.
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Geoff Nunberg picks over the peculiar entry for ‘suicide’ in Merriam Webster. ‘Another reason — not that we needed one — why “the dictionary” doesn’t always get things right.’
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napowrimo 9: Heraclitean Fire
Beneath us rock stretches and folds like toffee.
A bracken frond unfurls. A tadpole hides
beneath a lilypad. Within the window
of an aeroplane a film of condensation
glitters. A glacier scrapes across a rock.
In someone’s ear the wobbles of a magnet
turn electricity to funk. A krait
splits its own skin. A girl stroking a cat
sparks static. Kimchee softens and sours.
Salt forms on a drying swimmer’s back.
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meh.
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‘SCOTTISH scientists have developed a computer the size of a matchstick head, thousands of which can be sprayed onto patients to give a comprehensive analysis of their condition.’
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via things magazine: ‘This site is dedicated to the performance of the Citroen DS in movies.’
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via things magazine: ‘The first aim of the London Pedestrian Routemap is to encourage walking in London. It does this by providing a simple, memorable picture of key walking routes in the Capital. At present there is no such map.’
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via things magazine: The Railway Poster in Britain
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latest ‘I and the bird’
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napowrimo 8: salmon
Salmon throw themselves upriver
hurrying to die.
The cones upon the pine trees shiver
at the spirit thrusting by.
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another short one, I’m afraid.