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The Bittersweet City: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. I recently saw Wild. It’s not often I’m driven to write about a film, but I feel very moved by this one. It’s going to stay with me for a while. I think it was Legally Blonde. That did the damage. I liked her in Four Christmases. But ye ole faithful – loneliness – set in. (The radio, I’m hoping, will assist with the loneliness but won’t kill all the brain cells that a TV would). Having seen all of the films at my closest cinema – save American Sniper. And the cowboy that's lov...
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The Bittersweet City: Flutter (A Short Story, Not At All Autobiographical)
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Flutter (A Short Story, Not At All Autobiographical). The idea had come to her in a Williamsburg bookshop. She had picked up a series of travel essays about Iceland, and she’d fallen in love with the photos; her glacial eyes gleaming at finding such serene blues on the book jacket. They had picked the Harpa concert hall as their meeting point. “We can pick up our own symphony where we left off,” she had said. They whatsapped their salads to one another. View my complete profile.
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The Bittersweet City: August 2015
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Flutter (A Short Story, Not At All Autobiographical). The idea had come to her in a Williamsburg bookshop. She had picked up a series of travel essays about Iceland, and she’d fallen in love with the photos; her glacial eyes gleaming at finding such serene blues on the book jacket. They had picked the Harpa concert hall as their meeting point. “We can pick up our own symphony where we left off,” she had said. They whatsapped their salads to one another. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Bittersweet City: Ahora Caigo
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014. And other words that end in an A sound. The truth is we've not had much time, or many euros to spare. Oh, eff off, you live in a sunny place, I hear you protest. You can walk to a beach, you lucky biscuit. ¡Callate, puedes caminar a la playa, eres afortunada! So that's why ditching the city for this place for a bit was much needed. See how it makes the Mister look positively catalogue-model winsome? Quite literally, Now I Fall, or Now I Get It! You know the format, but did you kno...
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The Bittersweet City: February 2014
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Friday, February 28, 2014. Just a short one, this month. The month and the post. Short because I'm aware that I've already broken my new year's resolution to post once per month, if you count that I'm an hour and 18 minutes into March already. (OK, for you in the UK it's only 18 - wait, no, 19 minutes in. Well, what is there to say about February? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Too Much Tomato Soup, or Cognitive Bias and Curvy Edges. Have you heard of the More Exposure Effect?
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The Bittersweet City: 32
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Monday, August 25, 2014. Today is my birthday. I arrived in New York 13 days ago, and I'm missing my family acutely. The Mister is still in Barcelona, working hard, and working on a plan to visit me here, as am I planning a half-term break to return to my beloved Barna. Today was also the first day at the new school with returning staff coming back (last week I was oriented amongst other brand-new staff only). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). US-born, London-raised, NYC survivor, Barcelona émigré, now...
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The Bittersweet City: January 2014
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014. January, Day 8. One of my new years' resolutions for 2014 has been to write at least a post a month on here, something I didn't manage last year with the upheaval of moving country. So I'm going to try to get January's post in nice and early. Here's wishing you a very happy, healthy, prosperous new year full of childlike wonderment and new things to make you go all slackjawed. Here's to 2014. Things I ♥. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Barcelona, 19 May, ...
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The Bittersweet City: July 2014
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Monday, July 14, 2014. Thoughts From a Londoner Twice Removed. I'll always be a Londoner, though, won't I? Came my needy cry. In his best discursive Spanish style (I mean that in the nicest possible way) he asked me several questions back. "Let's see, what's a Londoner? He wrote. "A fairly open and heterogenous state of mind? Caring about the best hamburger in town? Complaining about the Tube? Not being able to afford your first house? Having your mind as open as Cicciolina's legs? I don't have any hard ...
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The Bittersweet City: Wildnerness
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. I recently saw Wild. It’s not often I’m driven to write about a film, but I feel very moved by this one. It’s going to stay with me for a while. I think it was Legally Blonde. That did the damage. I liked her in Four Christmases. But ye ole faithful – loneliness – set in. (The radio, I’m hoping, will assist with the loneliness but won’t kill all the brain cells that a TV would). Having seen all of the films at my closest cinema – save American Sniper. And the cowboy that's lov...
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The Bittersweet City: May 2014
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Monday, May 19, 2014. An Open Letter to Nigel Farage. Barcelona, 19 May, 2014. Dear Mr. Farage,. It must be really liberating, fantastical even, for you and your supporters to live in a world where they suppose that crime did not exist in Britain before mass immigration. Immigration from the European Union and other countries around the world has been proven in no uncertain terms to bring massive benefits to Britain. Who dedicate themselves to keeping one of our finest institutions afloat. Today you said...
