I was washing my hands this morning: water on, wet hands, water off, soap, lather, lather, lather, water on … But the water didn’t come back on. Suddenly nothing came out of the tap. Cold. Or hot. Or the kitchen tap. Or the outside taps for the garden hose. We were dry. I wiped my [...]
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Real life
5 March 2009
Last night I saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire, and enjoyed it tremendously, in spite of the hard parts. The movie opens with scenes of torture. I thought it was going to be a dark and unpleasant story — especially since the preceding trailers had been for some awful, stalker-type movie whose name I didn’t want [...]
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Arts, movie and performance
22 February 2009
