The Cigarette Machine from God / June 24 2007
Audrey and I have just passed a very strange sight indeed: Lying in a yellow rubbish skip by the side of the road was a big, fat and fully-intact cigarette vending machine.
(I enjoy rooting through the contents of roadside skips when no one is around. One can frequently find various discarded items that can potentially [...]
Kurt Vonnegut RIP / April 12 2007
How sad I am to learn of the death of Kurt Vonnegut.
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature and of 60s and 70s western counterculture, the writer has died aged 84 in New York.
He has long been one of my favourite authors and indeed, my erstwhile band Slaughterhouse 5 was named for his [...]
