Tag Archives: humor

a Washington D.C. diary, of sorts

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

There is a man who walks very slowly down my street every morning. He never walks on the pavement, always the road, keeping close to the parked cars. I spotted him once downtown. He’s not hard to miss. Dressed completely in black, … Continue reading →

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The Republican Party: dead or still twitching?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

Less than three in ten Americans view the Republican Party in a favourable light, a CNN poll found this week. And in other breaking news, I’m still flat-chested. Timed to coincide with the publication of the GOP’s 2012 election ‘autopsy‘ … Continue reading →

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haggis

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

I originally wrote this post some time ago, but recent events mean it is time for an update. So. A wee bit of sheep offal and some oats and they shit themselves. You can buy a hunting rifle and a pound … Continue reading →

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glowing in the dark

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

6.30am on Monday morning, and the temperature was at freezing point. I had lost all feeling in my toes and my face was numb. One of thousands of volunteers at President Obama’s inauguration, I had been on the National Mall for two hours, shivering, hopping from … Continue reading →

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You just put your lips together and blow, Joe

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

The trombone. It is not, on first sight, the sexiest of instruments. It is played by making the air inside the instrument vibrate, and has a sliding mechanism to change the pitch. Typically positioned towards the back of an orchestra, the trombone is … Continue reading →

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what is the city but the people?

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Here’s a fun fact about Marco Rubio, the 41-year-old Republican Senator from Florida: his first job was building cages for exotic birds. He’s not the first politician to start small; Ronald Reagan washed tables in a women’s dormitory, Jimmy Carter … Continue reading →

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i approve this message

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

I am bereft. No more debates, polls, rallies, speeches, commercials, interviews, reports, documentaries, photo-calls, in-depth articles, out-of-their-depth articles, profile pieces, diary pieces, speculative pieces, twitter-spats, commentators and talking heads. Goddamn it. But oh man, what a year. Every moment of … Continue reading →

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six days

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

Just before midnight on Monday, as D.C. was being hounded by Sandy, I gave up on the piles of sodden, disintegrating copies of the New York Times book review that I had saved to read later (i.e. never) and instead … Continue reading →

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those they left behind

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

As Romney and Obama battle it out tonight in one of the most heated and sterile environments known to anyone who’s not a lab technician, spare a thought for those good folks for whom the words ‘it coulda been me’ never … Continue reading →

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sledging in denver

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

What do Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State, and Chris Broderick, guitarist with thrash metal band Megadeth, have in common? Do they favour the same brand of breakfast cereal? It’s possible. Are they aficionados of the 1983 sci-fi television … Continue reading →

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