Despite the extent to which I hate writing them, I have completed a first draft query letter for the book. I’m tossing it out here in public, and requesting humbly that anyone interested take a look at it and tell me if it makes sense and, hopefully, makes you want to read the thing. Any [...]

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Hearing people a few years younger than you talk about what band is responsible for stealing the life and passion and politics from punk rock is like hearing teenagers talk about how saturday night live started to suck when Jimmy Fallon and Chris Parnell left. back in my day, you hear in your own head [...]

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One thing the British get right is their two-tiered journalism system. They have both serious news and news for retards, like we do in America, but the two are kept segregated, with only a rare overlap. It’s not like the US, where the serious journalists act like retards, or where the retards are occasionally given [...]

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And lo, we have returned to London. Switzerland is but a dream now, a distant memory of snow-peaked mountains and Americans, Australians, and English people charging up the stairs of Chalet Martin at three in the morning after five hours of drink motherfucker drink motherfucker drink! games.
I am full of mixed feelings.
But who wants to [...]

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bonjour! je suis en suisse. comment-allez vous?
Check it out, I’m a big fucking nerd. But Switzerland is lovely, at least the parts we’ve seen. This has mostly been limited to Gryon, the town in which Chalet Martin resides. That’s mostly enough, as sightseeing is a low priority right now. This is the French-speaking part [...]

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It’s been a busy past couple of days. We’ve more or less successfully completed the process of moving out of our old flat, which is good, as we turned in the keys yesterday. Thu hopped a plane back to Poland in the morning, and the rest of the day was spent cleaning and hiding the [...]

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To wash the bad taste of the play we saw last night out of my mouth, I insisted tonight to Kat that we must go see the lord of the rings musical. For people whose main interest in theatre has been as a powerfully intimate storytelling medium, this is a radical departure. I’m happy to [...]

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We went to see the last days of judas iscariot last night. It’s a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Rupert Goold. They’re two of the hottest shits in international theatre right now. Goold’s previous production of macbeth, with Patrick Stewart, was the best-reviewed London show of last year, and Guirgis winning Olivier [...]

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