Random thoughts and ramblings on no particular theme.
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In 1972, Stephen Shore set out from Manhattan bound for Amarillo, Texas. As his friend drove, Shore stared out through the frame of the car window at the landscape around him and was mesmerised. Having come from the setting of Warhol’s artists studio in New York, this American landscape was a strange and unfamiliar one
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So today President Bush George Bush said he took “full responsibility” for government failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina. It’s an astute move, given the anger and disbelief that has been roused in the wake of the inept federal response to events. However it is action on the ground, and not pretty words from Washington
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October 1988 and I’m on a train heading out of Palermo, bound for Rome. The whole summer had been spent wandering slowly south on trains and zig zagging through Europe. There had never been a plan or a route. There wasn’t even a timetable. Just head south and stay away as long as the money
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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Confucius Yesterday The Guardian launched a campaign to change the world. More precisely, it launched a campaign for YOU to change he world. Yeah, YOU. I suppose the idea behind it is what reminded me of that Confucius quote. Sometimes it’s the small things
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“The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life” This strange, mysterious opening line is spoken with such an emptiness, with such resignation, you’re not sure whether to sit up and take notice or simply shrug it off. “The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life”.
