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Torpid Monday morning


Listening to King Crimson… their new stuff. Mp3. Great. I suppose I love it. I should be happy with it, as it says. But I suppose I should speak about my weekend, which was as unfortunately placid as I might have predicted had I been utterly drunk during the whole of it. The highlight was Saturday night when we had demasiado comida at Eli’s place. She fed us as if we were pigs reined for years in a slop house ...

Please do not kick me there, sir


Today is Friday. I have nothing to say. Well, I have the inclination to fill this white square with pointless blather, but I will resist. Something more important may occur later. Oh, one bit of news: I have not begun hitchiking to Prague yet. Jéééééé! ...

The smile under this skirt could move continents


Off into another sunny day in Donostia, Pais Vasco, España. An optimistic sweetness sickens my departure from this place. The bright, orthogonality of the room suddenly becomes dim and sulking, leaning on me as if to crush and digest. I must explore the remaining green areas of the city before my departure and photograph them since my memories shall surely wane. Half of me is a corpse and the other half wants to keep dragging the whole forward until some ...

¿Tengo siempre mala leche?


Anoche era atroz. Cuando mañana o esta noche esté lo mismo, voy a estallar. Tuve que utilizar casi toda de mi paciencia para quedarme razonable. Si otra vez ocurriera, se mataría. Somehow, it is much more satisfying to be bitter in other languages other than English. ...

Ululating embryo


Spanish pop music drools from the speakers overhead as I wait to leave this place, to leave and hobble on feet which feel like pegs towards home. Once I arrive, I plan to create, in a pan of popping oil, palacinky. Palacinky are very tasty, especially when prepared with the diligence of a true Eastern European cook such as myself. That is about enough on that topic. Someone told me today that it will take some time before I get ...

Vete a freír espárragos


Monday I discovered a bank of computers providing internet access for absolutely free in the Egia Cultural Centre very near to my flat here in San Sebastián. So this morning, for the second in a row, here I sit. I will begin with a few pessimistic thoughts about drinking a litre of wine before noon. Yesterday, after returning from this immaculately clean establishment to my immensely sordid room in my exceedingly annoying flat (because of its numerous vociferous occupants), I ...

Don't make a fool of Sylvestr


Someone sent me an email, so I have decided to begin writing in this damn fool thing again, absurd though it might seem. If anyone is interested, I am in San Sebastiàn, Spain, but not for long. Those damned jaws of chaos keep dragging me from place to place and I am too weary to stop them. Without a single EURO, I will wander the freeways of Europe in hope that I shall eventually arrive again in Prague. I do ...

Fickle women


Damn my luck at only finding the most terribly schizoid of women. Her mood vacillates between totally lovely and completely full of hate. Within the same two hours, we can be walking arm in arm in Munich’s gentle evening breeze and also be in a pernicious debate concerning some failing I had 10 months prior. Her scorn seems endless. When I am not the subject of her pointed ridicule, she does her best to find someone (anyone!) else to beat ...

The one sentance every 10 minutes entry


Samba sucks. Sometimes my left collarbone needs a good greasing. I keep thinking about the toothless fish which swims in my dreams. Obviously I have nothing to say today. Okay. ...

Gape while you can, guillotined man


After sitting in front of a terminal for most of the day, my brain is in a deflated state. Difficulty concentrating. Plague. Coffee or cigarettes may be the solution. Last night, I created a spectacular pureed vegetable soup (potatoes, parsnips, carrots, leek, etc) which still awaits me this evening. Well, if the woman has not consumed it all. The night before was Panang Curry with eggplant, red bell pepper and carrots over rice. Also damn tasty. If tonight the soup ...

Kick my teeth in


yeah, this is more fun than working. If there are 3 wells (love, beauty, and creativity) and you can drink from one of them, which would you choose? that’s like asking whether you’d drink coffee, vodka or water if you were dehydrated. Do you wish on stars? no. Would you kill someone? yes. Who are you jealous of? no one. Who would you marry? no one. Do you think that the people on the gap commercials are cool? i have ...