January 2010
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CSO says everything is okay
a musical sketch.
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Fiction is stuffed full of heroes. Heroes of all shapes and sizes, a vast range of heroes, to solve the vast range of problems thrown up and, more importantly, to reflect the characteristics admired by the storyteller. The strong, the brave, the hard worker, the kind, the generous, the beautiful, the skilled, the extraordinarily gifted and the intelligent. The Intelligent Hero, who achieves heroic...
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I’m Sorry (That This Song Is Crap)
a Mark...
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“We are like the spider. We weave our life & move along it. We are like the...”
– Aitareya Upanishad
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Lucid
a nocturnal transmission.
(previous...
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It’s so hot in here. I hear the sweat dripping from my eyelashes, drop after sticky drop. Splashing. My shirt turns dark and then shiny, glistening as the sweat freezes. I feel no less heat. I daren’t look in a mirror, daren’t see the sparkling beads of perspiration, glinting ruby red, crystallising on my flushed face, daren’t see the vapor leaving my lips, my boiling,...
“But for fans of the tame, the inoffensive, the presentably decent, we are surely...”
– Marina Hyde
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birdsong and snowsteps