August 2007
→ Stronk
(26th August 2007)
So I have a frosty relationship with flying, as I have elucidated upon/banged on about many times before. Despite my frosty relationship with flying, I am trying to wean myself off diazepam which I generally knock back on planes. Today I properly weaned, because I forgot it. And today was the day when first, the Charles de Gaulle ground staff decided to go on strike ...
→ Nero
(16th August 2007)
From the book Sulabh Sanitation Movement by S. P. Singh, some pithy history: Nero was a mad Roman emperor who murdered his mother and two wives, castrated his friends, forced Roman aristocratic matrons to have sex with slaves in public and used the burning bodies of Christians to light up the night sky. He even set Rome aflame in AD ...
→ Words
(11th August 2007)
I finished reading yesterday. I started writing. I wrote 2000 words. I will when I get round to reading them again probably dislike most of them but that doesn't matter. tomdr made me feel better yesterday by saying that he had read David Halberstam's introduction to his The Best and ...