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I Love the Smoke
http://www.ilovethesmoke.com
Writing from the Big Smoke.
- Added on: Feb 10th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: clarissa
- Listed in: Personal Society
- Tags: London writing England underground united kingdom Going Out
Recent Posts
I, Clarissa, do
solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that on becoming a British citizen, I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, her Heirs and Successors, according to law.I will give my loyalty to the Unite...
Flee Girls
Petunia and I were afraid from the start. As we travelled across town on rail replacement bus services, we lost ourselves in imagined versions of what was yet to come. Occasionally, one of us would rib the other with an elbow to point out something...
Torn Apart
Sometimes you start something, and get newly energised and excited. That's how it was with me and the pig. I imagined myself traipsing around London with Pig in tow. I would take photos of the pig in Trafalgar Square, in Hyde Park, in the National...
Cirque
The Mista, The Pig, Petunia and I went to see the trained humans twirl, roll, glide. The Pig was particularly excited by the prospect of performing humans. Meanwhile I wondered, yet again, what was meant by the question of how many holes to fill thi...
Pig* Likes Kate
The floppy-haired man in the park rubs his belly and informs me that his wife is a member of BAFTA. "So we get to see all the films, you know."And what? They left you hungry?I wonder how it is that some men can publicly caress their disproportionat...
I Love the Snow
“The driving conditions are not ideal.” The minicab driver makes this observation at 4:15 in the morning.We roll our way through London’s snow-covered back streets. When we hit the main thoroughfare, the driver accelerates. Here the snow has...
