Archive For May, 2010

New Poem: Reversed Jealousy

By | May 31, 2010

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"Tesla Turbine" Pumps

By | May 30, 2010

When used as a pump, the Tesla turbine is one of the simplest devices that exists. Its main component is simply a spinning disc – the disc is immersed in a fluid (like air, or water), the moving surface couples frictionally with the surface of…

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"Tesla Turbine" Pumps

By | May 30, 2010

When used as a pump, the Tesla turbine is one of the simplest devices that exists. Its main component is simply a spinning disc – the disc is immersed in a fluid (like air, or water), the moving surface couples frictionally with the surface of…

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Can you compete in writing?

By | May 30, 2010

In running it’s obvious. The first person to cross the finishing line is the winner. It’s neither subjective or objective. It’s logic.With writing it’s a little bit different. The person who judges your work needs to feel some kind of connection, and …

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Love

By | May 30, 2010

I love my fiance so much. He is so beautiful! I literally can’t comprehend being able to marry someone I love and like so, so much. But it’s going to happen and I’m so ready. My Mum asked me yesterday if I was absolutely sure this is the man for me. I am so sure, [...]

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Wolf Parade – Expo 86 (2010)

By | May 28, 2010

An absolutely furious recording. Drumming of splendid brutality embellished with cascading guitars and vocal harmonies that surely originate from a demented barbershop in hell’s deepest circle. In truth this record adds a degree of sophistication to the lupine oevre and in so doing subtracts nothing from the gleefully deranged experience that listening to Wolf Parade

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PDAs and the Finer Details in Life

By | May 28, 2010

It has recently occurred to me that I am going to have to write vows for the big day. Well, not have to, but it would nice, non? We’re not having a religious ceremony, and I’d like to personalise it a touch, but where does one start? And where does one know when to leave [...]

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Body Heroine

By | May 27, 2010

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Motivate: the Art of Avoiding the Cake

By | May 27, 2010

All day I fantasise about pastry. Bread, cakes, crumpets, meringue, muffins, brownies, cheesecake, croissants, danishes, biscuits – on and on and on and on. I’m Watson in the lower clip: I don’t succumb, of course, but it fuels me, this lust for pastry. Deconstructing old habits is hard.  Finally facing up to the damage you [...]

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Discipline: A Four Line Poem a Day

By | May 24, 2010

This weekend I met up with writer James Harris who lives in Berlin. (it was in Berlin we first met at a poetry event in 2006). Last year James started The Four Line Blog. Every single day* he writes a poem in only four lines. I think it’s very impressi…

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