posted by Gordon White filed under Life Skills
Obviously I don't mean piracy in the tawdry plagiaristic sense.... No -as ever- I mean it in the camp, swashbuckling, Johnny Depp sense.
Although, there is an amazing, classic article on plagiarism that you all should read over here. From one of my personal saints/people I would stalk if we shared a city.
Piracy is about opportunism and maximising an advantage when
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posted by Gordon White filed under france
Living in the Northern Hemisphere means my birthday has gone from being a cold, wintry affair to a blisteringly hot pain fest in the middle of summer.
And graveyards are more enjoyable in the winter, I feel.
But whatever... We were in Paris for my birthday and that's now a summer activity. And the Père Lachaise cemetery was our one hat tip
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posted by Gordon White filed under Nightlife
A catch up with some of my London-based school chums was long overdue.
So I thought it best to risk ruining what would have been a nice, quiet evening for three people by turning it into some impromptu birthday drinks... For me.
And now that I work in town, what better place to meet up than somewhere that is an easy two
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posted by Gordon White filed under Etiquette
So yes, it's been a while.
This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Bad because a societal hiatus of longer than four months and you start to hoard homemade marmalade and buy television show-themed ouija boards off the internet.
But good because you get a chance for a do-over. One that you have planned for a long time... A
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