Britain
European Report #3: Beautiful Beverley
I’ve written it before and I’ll write it again: Beverley, the East Yorkshire town where I was born, must be one of the loveliest places in England. After previous visits...
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October 24, 2006
The Headmaster Ritual
The following posts are excerpted from Corpun.Com, an online database of corporal punishment memories. (The Web: What is it good for? Absolutely everything.) All the anecdotes below refer to one...
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August 11, 2006
Rockin’ & Shockin’: Athens, London and Yorkshire
ROCKIN’: Traveling 4,500 miles for my first rock festival of the summer… SHOCKIN’: …The same weekend my local Hunter Mountain hosts its first ever weekend-long campground summer rock festival. ROCKIN’The...
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June 8, 2006
Rockin’ & Shockin’: Manchester, London and Athens
ROCKIN’: An overnight flight to Manchester, a chance to sleep five hours straight SHOCKIN’: Ever tried sleeping on a seat that won’t recline? (That’s what you get for sitting in...
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June 7, 2006
Tower Bridge Sunset
…Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Ray Davies’ Kinks classic about Waterloo Bridge, does it? But the architecture is a lot more stunning, that’s for sure. This...
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June 2, 2006
Bugger Off
The following conversation would be funny if it wasn’t… well, if the people caught on tape weren’t serious about their end goal. What’s the likelihood that the terrorists who attacked...
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May 25, 2006
Whose Regeneration?
A busy intersection on the formerly unfashionable side of a major global city river languishes, un(der)developed, until it becomes an eyesore, a blight on the city’s reputation as a world...
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February 22, 2006
Give The Man A Knighthood
“Was (Princess) Diana a good person? No, she was a muck-raking, fucking jealous little bitch, who married into a family knowing damn well that faith and love and truth are...
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February 21, 2006
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