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There And Back Again (And Again….)

Aug 11, 2003 | Chronicles

Spent the week before last running about in front of a film crew, entering stage left and exiting stage right, when it wasn’t the opposite or vice-versa. (The big problem of course being how the heck do you make in any way interesting a guy who spends all his time...

Meditations and Mediations

Aug 3, 2003 | Chronicles

Recently wrote a short text for the French edition of Meditations on Middle-Earth. Mercifully, the editor was willing to accept my ramblings in English and translate them, thus I survived the ordeal with the certitude that some talented translator would make sense of...

More Coffee?

Jul 9, 2003 | Chronicles

Or The Great Percolator in the Sky… How many times have I absent-mindedly nodded my head when a waitress inquires “More coffee sir?” (usually while about halfway through pouring), eventually ending up drinking about 10 litres of the stuff and then spending the rest of...

Draw Winky

Jun 30, 2003 | Chronicles

Or: A brilliant CAREER in Wallpaper… Three things conspired the other day to take me unawares. (Well, four actually, the first being my general obliviousness…) The copy of National Geographic that I picked up in a used book store because it is the issue from the month...

Chatting with Mr. Ruskin

Jun 23, 2003 | Chronicles

Or How To Draw Attention… Oh would I love to be able to chat with John Ruskin. Ruskin wanted EVERYONE to draw. Not because he wished to turn the entire population of England into artists, to have factories filled with easels, and sketchpads on bankers’ knees, but in...