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Bodhidharma's Eyelids - Chapter 1 (cont.)

He went to the fridge to replace the milk. On the third shelf was a single man's black leather shoe. It was a left shoe, it looked expensive and it had not been there this morning. Lipton knew without looking that it was size ten and a half.

The Storm at the Globe

so clever, so silly, so funny, so friendly and such huge fun..but rather hard to describe.. it was a piece of comedy more than a piece of theatre.. a parody of greek/roman comedy (Plautus play about prostitutes) that was deliberately littered with jokes, absurdities and anachronisms. There were

Exit, pursued by a bear

A Winter's Tale, famous for having the only stage direction in the whole of Shakespeare, and for not being terribly good. Done by the company at the Globe in original treatment and sumptuous costumes it was very good entertainment.. if not reaying the lyrical heights of the so-called

pass the sick bag

All packed and ready to go but feeling a little sick in the stomach.. it might be the extra hot vegetable chilli i had for lunch but i rather suspect it is nerves. Haven't done anything like this since i went off to live and work in Paris

The Streets of London

Some months ago, after an amazing curry at Tayabs in Whitechapel with 30 friends, three of us travelled home on the tube. We were sharing a can of Strongbow Super Strength (7.4% abv.) and we felt a little like singing. Arriving on the platform, we heard in the distance

London

i failed to get into work.. turfed off tubes at 9am at london bridge.. stopped for a greasy breakfast oblivious to what was going on.. thought i might be able to catch a Docklands Light Railway train out to work in Canary Wharf. so crossed the river, walked to tower

SCUM-tek, Lee Valley Sports Ground, E15

No that is not just the camera, life was blurry by that point. Spent saturday into sunday afternoon at SCUM-tek, It was very, very good It was in a huge disused ground in east london. we got there a bit after mid-night and there were about 8 major rigs set

The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Zombies

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/4/18/153047/155 At last someone is taking the zombie problem seriously. For too long, the rising threat of the undead has been ignored or glossed over with empty sound bites by our complacent political establishment. The rhetoric continues to pour forth from

Sites near onemonkey.org in meatspace

http://geourl.org/near?p=http://onemonkey.org geourl.org tells me (and you) who is nearby to my dwelling place. After, initially mixing up my eastings, westings and other longitudities to mistakely place myself in Kazakhstan, I am now tagged as borderlands Brixtonian. And may now begin some cyber-curtain-twitching,

48163 words to go

I am happy enough with my first days nanowriming, i've done 1837 words so far which ahead of the 1666 per diem requirement and i didn't even use those 160 words I had ready and waiting. Of course, at the beginning we all have a lot

MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology

Dr. Michael Thomas Dear Dr. Thomas, Here is my application for the MSc. in Cognitive Neuropsychology; I enclose the completed post-graduate application form, evidence of my existing qualifications and my professional CV (for what it is worth.) References from my personal tutor and from a former colleague will follow. As

The jetset lifestyle of the psycholinguist???

Just read the most bizarre opening paragraph of any academic textbook i've ever seen The Psychology of Language - Trevor Harley what sort of lifestyle do psycholinguists lead?

are you looking at me?

For the past week or so I've been reading "Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes" (PJ McKenna, Psychology Press, 1997). Now it has struck me that this might not be a very wise thing to do. Learning about deranged minds is an intrinsically interesting and worthwhile activity, but