I borrowed Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me from the library at the weekend, a book of celebrity feuds, ruminations upon the nature of the Internet, and reminiscences of the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Month: April 2018
A deserved journey to hell: Port Of Lost Souls
As they say, karma is a bitch. Or rather, if you make your children weep with sadness, you’re going to have to go to a water park.
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Of pancakes and exercise
Screaming woke me. It punctured the shield of the hangover I had, eventually forcing me toeave my bed and see what the children were screaming about. They were, of course, just screaming. They don’t need[…]
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The Necromancer’s House
I finished reading The Necromancer’s House just after midnight. It’s a book of many chapters, where almost every chapter is incredibly short, the start is great, there are two or three good chapters and then[…]
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Late flight to Jakarta
My plane took off half an hour late from Changi. When everything else is so seamlessly efficient (twenty minutes from office to terminal, five minutes to check in and less than a minute to clear[…]
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What I talk about when I talk to my children
I’ve been waking my girls to school almost every day this year, and my hope was stay this would be a good way for us to bond. On our way to school we would discuss[…]
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Another tiring day
I thought I’d get a good night’s sleep, and I did, except I woke at 5 this morning and had to read ten pages of a disappointing book about a warlock who frequents Alcoholics Anonymous[…]
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Another day in Kuala Lumpur
The kids slept in until after 8; La Serpiente made an abortive attempt to wake everyone up an hour before that, but was herself so tired that she fell back to sleep. We got up[…]
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A day in Kuala Lumpur
We checked into our hotel about 10:15 last night and the kids were asleep by 11. I thought that would mean we’d get a lie-in this morning but they were up early and demanding attention,[…]
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