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Sapin

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Diner's Club Card

Map of a Fictional World

Motion Picture Archive File Cabinets

Wurrmarr Landscape

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Grass Diptych

Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Brick Wall

OTS

B&W Rabbit

Penta

Nereid

Baconian Diptych

Blue Brush

Blue Triptych

Square

Lander

Ealing Broadway Christmas Tree

Cold Layers

I still haven't quite got the hang of getting dressed. I'm still an Angeleno. I wear t-shirts. That's what I wear. If it's cold, I wear a coat over my t-shirt. If it's really, really cold, I don't go out.

My friend Attack Cat, now that guy knows how to dress. He wears layers. I've never understood how to do layers. When I do layers, it's a jacket over a t-shirt, over a hoodie, over another t-shirt, over a sports jacket, over a turtleneck. Sometimes I'll wear a jaunty hat too. With perhaps a yarmulke under it or a long nightcap like Scrooge would wear. 

No, I've never been able to figure out layers. 

Winter will be here next week. The shortest day of the year. At these northern, vampire-friendly latitudes, you get about - as I recall - 55 minutes of daylight on the first day of winter. And that is some extremely cold daylight too. With rain and sleet and snow and freezing wind. Exposed skin will shatter instantly. And ships will be crushed by the incoming ice floes. Or is that spelled "floze"?

Long ago, veterans of the Roman legions used to retire to Britain - for the climate. Which I think tells us a lot about Europeans. In the USA, you retire to Florida or Arizona - for the climate. But in Europe, it's Britain.

Maybe Britain was warmer in 100 A.D.

Of course, they were giving away land for cheap too, so that was a big incentive. Retire from the Roman army, get a cottage with spectacular Thames views for no money down.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is that, even though it's the 21st century, I'm having trouble staying warm. While taking the above photograph, I literally froze my ass off (ironically the real tissue damage happens not during freezing, but when the ass begins to thaw).

But it did make for some good pictures.

Across The Thames

Desperately Seeking Kent

Last month I took a trip to Canterbury to haunt the University of Kent with some friends - fellow alumni of that windswept institution. From the train, at Rochester and Faversham, and Sittingbourne and Gillingham, many sights can be seen.

We spend a lot of time waiting, we spend a lot of time between here and there.

Dark Waters

Victoria Pan

Victoria Pan, the luxury city-fortress in "Carnival Earth", was originally imagined to be somewhere in the middle of the North American continent - near the Great Lakes region perhaps.

But why not here - at Zero Longitude?

South Bank Juggler

St. James's Park Moment

Low Web

Taking a walk round the hood with the baby yestereve:

Comp Self-Portrait 3

Comp Self-Portrait 2

Comp Self-Portrait 1

Russet Murder

Intercepting Crow

Quartet

Bandit

Planet Conus Landscape

Falun Dafa vs. Chinese Embassy

"Falun Dafa" demonstrators this week across the street from the Chinese Embassy, London, UK.

1000 Crow

Forth Ducklings!

Spring in Ealing brings out many little critters - including the squad of tiny lithe brand new squirrels in our back garden and this mini-flotilla of ducklings at Walpole Park.

Horsepower

Caterpillars - Heathrow Airport

May Wall Flowers

London Spring

L.A. Romanesque

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Thames

Scanodon Polar Swamp

Each week, we try to present an image from the sci-fi site, Cyclopedia Of Worlds. This week, a view of the stinking polar swampland of the planet Scanodon:

Aphrophine

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Tharat

Poster

Stomu

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The Amazing Spidercow!

March Time Pelago Sunset

Flyby

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Red Buddha

Barnard IV

John's B'day

Scanodon

Planet Shuttleworth

Taking Down The Day

T'Canidew Omuch

Family Butcher

L.A. River Vibe

L.A. Ffito

Velocicat In A Crate

Sitting

Ping Pong

Live!

Matterhorn

Tripping With Red Shoes

Los Angeles Evening