‘Order! Order!!’ Barked a wigged vampire. He was the chairman, Mister Reaper. ‘The UK parliament is in session now. All rise for the national anthem.’‘Do we rise too?’ Whispered a little zombie boy in the spectator galleries.‘No.’ Muttered his father. ‘We don’t matter.’They just stared as the members of parliament sang, howled, shrieked, and growled…
History is not who we are, history is who we were. It’s where we come from. You can topple a few statues, hide them from sight but that is not going to change what already happened. Slavery is not something white folks have done to black folks. Slavery is something that folks with power did…
Last night I dreamed I had a small device. I was singing the riff to “Let There Be Rock” and behold, it started playing the song. It was about halfway through when I broke out „Spirit-moves-through-all-things spirit-moves-through-all-things” and it seamlessly interlaced into “Science”. I was quite impressed with this when I woke up, we would need a…
After two and a half days spent cooped up inside these new outdoor rules seem so distant that I need some time to adjust. By the time I get off the train though I’m back in the routine and this absurd reality feels like it was always the norm. Avoid, steer clear, eschew, shun, repeat. And…
A kite is stuck in a tree, swaying gently with the breeze. The tree is adjacent to a block of flats, maybe they tried flying it from a window, to keep their spirits up inside. ‘Let’s stay in and fly a kite Up to a branch that’s high’ I have never flown a kite. Never had…
Music Monday is a pretty obvious thing. You share music that you really like, and… yes, you do it on a Monday. Brainchild of a tattooed book geek called The Tattooed Book Geek. R.E.M – Supernatural Superserious The first time I heard this song a plane was accelerating on a runway. With my copious background…