Thursday, May 05, 2005

Bark, reality and Charlie.

1. Calvin and Hobbes because I like the way it switches between the real world and Calvin's imagination.

2. Two naughty bull terriers in coats against the unseasonable cold racing round in circles and scrapping and rolling in the grass while their owner, an oldish and very skinny man with big, thick framed-glasses, sat on a bench scribbling in a notepad.

3. I saw a fox on my way home. He saw me first, though. When he spotted me coming down the path he turned and set off into the woods. I heard him scuffling dead leaves and watched him trotting away. Apart from that first rustle, he hardly made a sound.

Dates, from the slopes and esoteric zine.

1. To eat a few fat sweet dates with my coffee. 2. A video showing careful, elegant parallel turns comes home from the dry slope before they...