I was updating a profile last night with a list of authors I’ve been reading recently when something peculiar happened. I went to type “Philip K. Dick” and ended up typing “Philip K. Cock”. I am confused and saddened by this, as you might expect. I mean, was this an unconscious semantic substitution let loose [...]
Archive for February, 2007
I flew to Scotland the other day
21Feb07Airports are the most messed-up places I know. I’ve just queued for 20 minutes for the honour of taking half my clothes off, swabbed for explosives and then electronically stripped naked (seriously) by a millimetre-wave scanner monitored two minimum-wage numbnuts still giggling over the best pair of x-rayed tits they’ve seen today. Or mocking my [...]
