Category Archives: edinburgh

Mexican Standoff

Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]

The Free Fringe Comedy Essence

Paedophilia. Probably then followed by a ‘wait, I shouldn’t joke about that, should I? Because y’know, I don’t actually fuck six year olds (I prefer girls about nine)’
Girlfriends (and lack thereof). Expect reference to (1).
Lesbians/Gays
Annoying international stereotypes, like Oriental looking folk not understanding English, cue hilarious nonsense from comedian
Black people, if comedian [...]

Tuesday Came and Changed

Life in Edinburgh is odd and foreign, and friendships and the city change quickly. Some friends say goodbye and take their leave overseas for a year, others pack up their boxes and move down the road – the two feel equivalent.

++Age;

A birthday and people congratulate you (I hope with hand-clapping) because Facebook reminds them. Yesterday we went to the Museum on the Mound which was totally worth it because we a-built the Bank of Scotland and b-cracked the safe to get a reward of chocolate coins. And today we shall go to the [...]

Back to the slow comforts of home

I sit in my room and read books for nerdy children (apparently the walls of the Taj Mahal are filled with rubble, the marble is just a facade), look at a few hundred CDs and have to pinch my mum’s cheap player as I’ve none of my own, play Mortal Kombat’s puzzle mode over-and-over and [...]

A shiny head, a sex face, E.S.T.

Saw the Esbjörn Svensson Trio on Sunday night at the Usher Hall, I hadn’t been quite so excited about a gig in a long time! After the brilliance of the show at the Barbican in 2005 I knew what to expect and I had that strange nervous chill that only gets you when you [...]