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What makes people Stare, and why?
24/06/2013 20:56
What makes people stare...? The same thing that impels people to read? That special hunger for the latent details of our counterparts; of strangers breezing by, destitutes and microaerophiles. The washed-out glimpse, like a running light slowing to a rising smell, peels back into a longer stare,...
The Soft Drink: Nectarine & Rose
09/06/2013 17:55
THE SOFT DRINK VIDEO
With soft drinks it's all about presentation... and ultroneousness
The supplier of the rose said "It's beautiful"
The juice boasts a fifty percent fruit content and a massive barcode
Click the image above to watch this...
Eggboxx.com – The New Social Media Craze (Live)
29/05/2013 17:27
Like every other journalist I'd wanted to interview him all week, since I read the headline: 'Spread yourself thick again. Have your friends with you (up to a limit of ten).' And now I'm here, after the press conference, at the back of a car park whose entrance is guarded by a battered...
Lounge Lizards and the Athlete's Foot Microcosm
17/05/2013 15:15
A memory of a certain late 1980s adult computer game came to me when drinking with friends last week. The opening screen gently explains to the new initiate how the game contains “some elements of plot which may not be considered appropriate for some children.” I was recalling the elegantly...
Two Shells: the Foam Bed and the Free House (hte p.1)
06/05/2013 20:12
Junk isn't just junk. It's an idea. A man is out there, someone else, a metre from your fingertips. A man living in a non-running Peugeot 205. On his back the fellow wears a strapped-on foam tortoise shell that acts as a portable bed. With every window wound open, he lays out simple cold...
Imagination in Bratislava – Europe's Literary Hideaway
28/04/2013 23:54
Doing little is the last universal luxury. Slovakia's main city. A slice of winter peace. A church steeple edged with gold like a needled Christmas microphone. Distant tower blocks in computer game colours are paused against the breeze of soft traffic. From the castle hill the rain-washed...
Receiving a Letter: The Last Honour
20/04/2013 13:00
Sending a letter is easy, though too time consuming in the eyes of most people. Receiving one in return, then, becomes something of a miracle. With this in mind, over the next few weeks I'll be writing to three selected writers out of nubiform curiosity.
First up, I've written to an...
An Interview with BVS (the Bratislava Water Company)
09/04/2013 18:12
The Peanut Society of Lucubrators interviews Zenon Mikle, Head of Communications at the Bratislava Water Company
PSofL: What is your organisation responsible for?
ZM: Bratislava Water Company (BVS) is responsible for...
Parallel Contemporary Non-Art, the Everywhere Ocular Assassin
31/03/2013 19:01
Warning: this article contains two offensive images
Impugnation... I feel strongly about these masterpieces; villainous inflictions let's call them – the proliferating picture-paintings that idiotic hands mount incessantly in rental apartments and hotel rooms across Europe and, dare I...
Green Eggs and the Cyprus Levy: An Edible Defence Economy
22/03/2013 14:42
Alert: Before reading this article it helps if you drink a little wine, if it's late at night, and if you gobble an omelette immediately afterwards – I mean the kind to induce a mind-racking cheese dream. Following these guidelines might help you read with a sense of disillusionment...
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