This is the final part of a four part continuing story on Gamboling. Click here to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. And now for the final part of “The Empty Vessel”. Kurt was crawling. The water level hadn’t changed at all. He was moving but hadn’t heard or seen anything change. Every [...]
Archive for February, 2010
The Empty Vessel – Part 4
Posted in Fiction, The Empty Vessel on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A silly idea
Posted in Archive on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Thursday so it’s archive time. This week we talk a post of mine that was branded “silly” by no greater an authority than Wikipedia. What’s the idea? Well you’ll have to read the archive posts I guess. Here’s the idea being introduced Here’s where wikipedia and the idea became friends And here’s where wikipedia [...]
A good car game
Posted in Articles on February 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So you know what it’s like: you and your sibling are sitting in the back seat of your parents’ car and you are looking for a game to play. Well I have just the thing. I realise that this isn’t necessarily relevant for my core audience, but if I am introspective for a moment, I [...]
What will the third generation be amazed at?
Posted in Articles on February 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
This is the continuing series of questions for you in the comments, here’s how it works. I’ll ask you a question, and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. Question: What will the third generation be amazed at? In an article the other day, [...]
We’re out of mime
Posted in Articles on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There seems to be a bit of a word collision going on with the words mimetic and memetic. We are going to need to sort this out once and for all. Mimetic already means two things. The first is a study of the way in which animals imitate each other. So if you get a [...]
The Empty Vessel – Part 3
Posted in Fiction, The Empty Vessel on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is the third of a four part continuing story on Gamboling. Click here to read part 1 and part 2, check back next Friday for the final instalment, but only after you’ve read part 3 of “The Empty Vessel”. Kurt’s legs felt like they had bursts of flames mixing with the blood pumping through [...]
Moving Day
Posted in Admin, Archive on February 4, 2010 | 9 Comments »
So today, being a Thursday, is supposed to be all about the archives and in many ways it is. Gamboling has today moved from blogger to wordpress. This means there has been a bit of a spruce up. You will probably have to change your feed reader to point somewhere else. Practically it does mean [...]
A little bit of history repeating
Posted in Articles on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After a gig one night, I was sitting in a chip shop with the lead singer of a band. We’d come here because at the time there were very few late licenced venues. All of London would close at eleven – remember that? Madness. That will be one of those things that generations to come [...]
What’s your favourite thing about one of your appliances?
Posted in Questions on February 2, 2010 | 13 Comments »
This is the continuing series of questions for you in the comments, here’s how it works. I’ll ask you a question, and you either answer in the comments or on your own blog and drop a link to the post. Question: What’s your favourite thing about one of your appliances? We hopefully all have one [...]
Italian restaurants
Posted in Articles on February 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
We currently don’t have an Italian restaurant and it worries me. Well, of course, that’s not exactly true. Senor Grilli on Goodge Street in central London has been a regular haunt of mine since 1998. At our old flat, we had a great one, Aldo’s, but we moved away and it went out of business [...]
