New term, lack of internet, more Monty Python and me and flatmates conspiring to confuse brighten up the lives of philosophy students...

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a ( Read more... )

First morning back at the 'burgh ( Read more... )

Well, I'm finally on the train to Edinburgh (yes, there's wireless on the train and yes, I am addicted to the internet ( Read more... )

I am just adding the finishing touches to this, barely twelve hours into the dawn of my third decade.  Everyone says that 20 is a grown-up, responsible age and that I’m getting to be a real adult…
I don’t feel any different though.

In fact, it reminds me a little of a question I frequently get asked on visits to China: “so, you’re half English, born ( Read more... )

I just lost :(
The Game

In other news, this might interest some of you:
go dotty..
(be interested to see any of your recommendations)

I have to go out in 15mins...
and I've only just woken up..!!

(and I didn't even get to bed THAT late last night)

Ugh, I can't believe I'm eating breakfast in my dressing gown at four in the afternoon..

Spent a semi-productive day pinging between my two local cafes drinking countless coffees and trying to write the latest travelogue, but it's sooo hard! There's so much that screams to be included and only so little space before I've killed my readership's attention spans forever ( Read more... )

Oh fuck, shit, wank and a side-order of bollocks ( Read more... )

I'm becoming increasingly aware of the cusp I'm approaching - between a spectacular year past and the year to come, the loss of more good friends and the potential of new ones; past and potential ( Read more... )

Treasure your chin.
Be proud of that protrusion between your neck and lower lip.  It is you; the centre of your being and the most intimate and eloquent expression of who you are.
Turned upside down, it also looks like your nose has mutated :P

As the 18th century scholar and poet Alfred Chinney wrote in his Manifesto to the Netherface:

Some may think ( Read more... )