Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Monday, 14 March 2011

地震

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Fukushima, for me, still brings associations of calm and tranquillity, and red leaves. We holidayed up there in Autumn 2008, staying in what...

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Friday, 25 February 2011

To the North, to the North

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January’s Artforum has an interesting short essay by Joan Kee (not, unfortunately, available online). She subjects Ryu Hwan-gi’s 2002 paint...

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Friday, 11 February 2011

Stood Loyal Right Through

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For a hundred and fifty-one days a lockout The kids and Mum get a knockout! The union funds pay, then run out Hey, when will men have libert...

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Saturday, 29 January 2011

Tokyo Compression

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Alienation is one obvious masterplot in which to fix Tokyo Compression , Michael Wolf ’s unsettling, voyeuristic images from the Odakyu li...

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Saturday, 8 January 2011

The Rent Due for a Skull

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This is a political parable, a harbour at low tide. Like most self-absorbed bookish people, I was a particularly narcissitic and introverted...

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Monday, 13 December 2010

Showing Three Inches of Steel

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[Donate to the EMPU Pike River Miners Families Support Trust here ] The Japanese are, we’re all supposed to agree, a people much given to in...

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Dead Man's Ember

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Silence here this last month, not for want of things to say - if only! - but due to all sorts of time pressures and deadlines and, ahem, lif...

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