Saturday, March 10, 2007

Ever-ready

Ever-ready
Calle de Alcalá, Madríd, Spain
Crowd control

Crowd control
Calle de Alcalá, Madríd, Spain
Policía

Policía
Calle de Alcalá, Madríd, Spain
Vehículos de policía

Vehículos de policía
Calle de Alcalá, Madríd, Spain
Manifestación

Manifestación
Calle de Alcalá, Madríd, Spain
Policía

Policía
I can't remember exactly where this was. Somewhere in Madrid, that's for sure. You know, Madrid in Spain.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

My final breakfast tomatoes. Ever?

My final breakfast tomatoes. Ever?
That's it, I've decided. I don't like tomatoes with a cooked breakfast. Yes, I know that's something of a momentous decision for me to announce so unexpectedly, and one which some may feel warrants further discussion, but I'm serious about this. It's just not what I want. Allow me, if you will, to elaborate.

For me, breakfast is all about glue, slime, stodge. Bulk. The raw materials of a daily grind; high-octane fuel for our high-intensity enterprise. None of your existential doubt drawn from a slightly translucent, watery, roof-of-your-mouth-burning superfluous component for me. It's got to be solid; in an ideal world a poached or fried egg would be mercilessly punctured, allowing its lustrous golden goo to cement its comrades' companionship before they get anywhere the cakehole - yea, I say unto you, even on the plate - but given that this world is far from the Ideal, I say that the salivatory effect induced by tomatoes' aqueous gunge is AN INADEQUATE SUBSTITUTE, and, frankly, I'd rather do without.

Naysay me all thou wilt; I'll countenance none of your pish, nor any of your tosh, and there, Sir, and there, Madam, is an end on't.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Loonar eclipse

Loonar eclipse
Setting aside (as I'm wont, daily, hourly, even minutely, to do) the myriad unresolved complexities already established regarding the possibility or otherwise of any form of genuine mental continuity in the face of constant molecular change, ‘my’ mind often wanders (insofar as it may, within such tortuous constraints), on engaging with cosmic phenomena, over the seemingly innumerable moments of human experience prior to our own - yes, even across the glassy, impenetrable sea of macro-chronology - to an era in which that collection of thought-atoms ‘our’ species (go on, indulge me) granted itself the conceit of including within the body of those it considered elevated to the canonical was sufficiently small in comparison to our contemporary equivalent that they'd look up at the moon and just be like "WOOOAH". Given this same species’ seemingly preternatural disposition towards supernaturalisation of the inexplicable, what ghastly, divine horrrors might have loped across the under-developed primeval cognitive synapses of those complete loonatrons if they'd seen »this«?

I mean, OK, I'm a 21st-century guy, I ‘know’ about penicillin and wasabi, nanotechnology and relativity, ultimate reality and cats that don't exist (well, I've heard of some of those things, anyway), and frankly, when I cast my gaze up to the majestic splendour of the firmament and see wiggly, squirly, loony shit like this, well, I just don't know what to think any more. Come on, the moon's not supposed to be red, for a start, and it's »DEFINITELY« not supposed to dance like a crazy spaniel frantically dribbling spaghetti out of its ears. Imagine what those poor buggers would have thought.

Bloody sky, I don't know.