urbanmonklife

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

"If you can specify exactly where you're going, you are not learning."
-Mike Higton

Monday, October 30, 2006

I like the way there is music on the buses now, from the mobile phones at the back of the top deck.
The other day the hip-hop was so perfect with the dusk rain of Leith when a rock got thrown against the side as we passed.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

There was an explosion in the road and the firework spiralled whining towards the front of the car that had slammed on its brakes a few feet away, at the last minute it veered away and exploded with a loud bang and a big cloud of smoke. The people ran away.
Another one bounced off the front of our building flew back over the fence exploding in the middle of a group of our friends who had thrown it.
A house caught fire from the ones through its letter box.

Monday, October 23, 2006

With two friends from Sweden, gate-crashed a lecture on 'The History of Science':

'In the late 16th century there was a major crisis of thought in Europe. Every university on the continent had been basing its teaching on the philosophy of Aristotle; but with the rediscovery of the writings of other Greek philophers, and the realisation that Aristotle himself wasn't even that highly regarded in the ancient world, all of this was called into question. Their whole system of natural physics, and of understanding the nature of the world and life, was challenged and undermined.'

"Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone"
-John Donne -An anatomie of the world (1611)

Monday, October 16, 2006

We really could be a whole lot more creative with housing all our friends in the shelters available. Thanks to those who are living this. Now we just need to find some way of creating stable flexible employment.. (any ideas?)

Friday, October 13, 2006

There is lots of copper piping to be had at our local demolition site, just bring a wheelie bin.
And wear black in the night.

Lots of mushrooms in the hills.

And the starlings are returning.