Monday 1 October 2007

I Loike Your Spoike

The mornings are getting colder, darker. I dressed like an Italian boar hunter today to compensate and it worked. Instead of going to work in a digital media factory I imagined myself travelling up the Isonzo River, cleaning the barrel of a Marlin 30/30, anticipating the inevitable taste of BBQ hog meat in the great outdoors.

I pass Bellot's spoike every day. Joseph Rene Bellot was a French Arctic explorer. He is commemorated by this spike for his efforts to find the British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Sir John went missing trying to map the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic.

Talking of Canada, you really should check out Death From Above 1979. A sadly now disbanded rock duo. May their souls live on in our iPods forever.