The Froth

How to live my wild, rock n’roll life

30. October 2006

In the same day you must: Make orange marmalade. Have the cistern/flusher, whatever, changed. Lose necessary piece of equipment and live precariously without a cistern/ flusher, whatever, for a few hours. Listen to Michael Nyman play the piano all day. Franticly move the laundry inside (twice) due to the heavy rain. Study history with your [...]

Bewitched

29. October 2006

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I have been tidying up the computer because Stephanie is coming and I don’t want it to be a mess. Especially the music folders. At some point I should do the same about the house but for some reason I thought the computer was more important. Anyway, the reason I am bringing this up is [...]

Oyster boys

26. October 2006

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Blondie got me “The melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories” the other day and I have been reading it non-stop. Don’t buy it for your kid though. It’s twisted, macabre, strangely funny and best of all, written by Tim Burton. This is one of my favourite stories in the book. You can see [...]

Guess who’s coming to dinner

25. October 2006

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How to make magic mushrooms out of a simple button mushroom This was the opposite of writer’s block. It was a cataclysm of thoughts that were impossible to write down. Or I was lazy, pick your answer. Some people wrote to me asking why I was sad. I was not sad, I was autumnal. I have a [...]

Notes written in the margin

19. October 2006

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I made pumpkin pie. It’s not a common dessert in Greece but I made it for the magazine and I just ate its last piece. I designed our company’s site. Now the programmers are going to work on this design and make it better and add the mechanics it needs to function. Like, the shopping [...]

Spam (stands for Sending Phenomenal Amounts of Money)

17. October 2006

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Here’s another spam I got today. I thought I’d share my good fortune with you: Dear reader, Can a dieing man trust you with a huge sum of money for his last wish? If yes reply me urgently on shadaksherif2@spray.se to get more details. Regards, Shadak Dear Shadak, I am sorry [...]

Still, it’s okay

16. October 2006

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You were so beautiful. You were my beautiful friend. You made having coffee a transcendental experience. I adored you. All through high school. And college. And adulthood. And then I stopped adoring you. And that was it. I miss this feeling of pure adoration. We are mortals and that’s such a shame. We should be [...]