Dark Side

Emmelie dreamt she was in 'The Wire'. They had tapped her phone and she was going to go over to the dark side. "That's Star Wars," I said

too expensive

one of the grocers at the market was charging 2 euros 75 cents for a smallish bag of basil
i said i had to pin some more money
then i went to another grocer and bought a larger bag of basil for 1 euro 50 cents

slime

I bought slime for Ties. He said that he wanted slime, when Emmelie asked him what he wanted. That's what she said at least.

They had run out of chicken livers in De Boerenschuur. No crostinis after all.

Do not confuse scandals with sandals when you are attempting to buy the latter.

Lean In

The Wire's David Simon: "When you lean in, I've got you." And he said a lot of TV makes you lean right back.

Poetry that makes you lean in.

Bright lamp light (or sunlight) on paper brings extra life to a poem. Like Mark Ford's stuff i was reading last night.

This Josh Wink RA podcast has a section in the mix that sounds like a radiator pipe being scraped.

Stare out owl

The palm is in the back garden, to recover.
I have 3 long 'to-do' lists sellotaped to my desk. They overlap, not like wet petals. Soggy boxes.
Bit by bit, they are driving me peanuts.
Some of my dried grapefruits are rocking gently above my head. Must be a slight breeze in here but I don't feel it.
Here's to choppy style.

In the spirit of Benbenek I'm tired of the phrase 'it ticks all the boxes'.

Omar's coming.

Create!!

Willem has started a book called 'The Book of Willem'. It has 51 pages and these are tied together (it was too thick to staple).

He is reluctant to write anything in it. I'll force him to create.

I have reached episode 8 of the Wire Season 1.

Mos Def

Put More to BED

I'm keeping a record of who puts the kids to bed. I'll do it for a couple of weeks so as I can win one of our stupid petty arguments about who puts the most kids to bed.


e.g. "last week I put 15 kids to bed fuck nose"