http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog the long hand blog of Peter Kirby Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:13:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're up now, maybe in front of a screen, of some kind, or perhaps hanging around under a streetlight waiting for trade, of some kind, or possibly even clung to the front of a moving vehicle, of some kind, you may well be sharing your space with a moth. Now, ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/why-moths-love-lights/ Do Gods have siblings, and if so, are they mortal? http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/buddha-the-younger-allah-the-edler-krishna-the-middly/ I've been wearing it all week, courtesy of my daughter. It's only the left hand, the hand with which I now type slowly and dizzyingly. By resting my head upon my right hand it helps the left hand to focus. The distance covered by my gliding left hand is so ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/male-nail-varnish-74927/ Micro-climates like to flex their stats. Findhorn and San Francisco brag temperatures that dwarf their chilly neighbours. Generalizing as I like to do, if you live anywhere hilly, near the sea, with a great gush of water ebbing in and out, you have a fair chance of qualifying for micro-meteorology. If ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/ultra-micro-climate/ ddfcxz`rrfdfcb b dvb vcdcesv xszq2dc The text above was written by a Jack Russell in between the cleansing of her thighs, with a tongue that stank of dehydrated dog breath. Its paw typed with the skill of Shaun Wright Phillips, and at a glance, they could be twins. If you ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/a-dog-writes-74928/ Turn the telly on now. http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/raoul-moat-is-stranger-than-fiction/ STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE AWAY FROM DIRECT LIGHT http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/the-substance-of-centred-text-74929/ There are way too many birds flying headlong into buildings, trees, hillsides, and cliffs. These are static objects. You may not have noticed, but you will now. They make soon mistake you for one of the above as you wait for a train. It got me wondering the following: Are windows ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/suicide-birds/ The whereabouts of the nearest wall affects what and how we write. Many of us sit at a desk with our face to the wall as we shunt our desk up against a wall so things don't fall off. Facing a wall creates a visual focus but leaves our back ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/07/walls-have-mouths-74930/ I don't mind admitting I like football. I wish I could say I 'did' after this afternoon's debacle, but the tense is still present. I do like the games that go belly up, even when it's us on the receiving end. Sure, like you I want the players to accept ... http://www.thisness.co.uk/longhandblog/2010/06/self-harm-with-a-pigs-bladder/