...as young as we're ever going to get...

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Always earnest, almost never serious, I do not enjoy long walks on the beach or any of that nonsense... I do enjoy good and/or good-looking people, black coffee, margaritas, midnight onwards, hectic cities, philosophy & chatting throw-away metaphysics, &c... I'm more left-wing than I should be, more abstractedly-minded than I should be, more averse to forwards-planning than I should be - at least, if I wanted to 'get anything done in this world'. But since I don't actually want to get anything of that sort done, I'm good.
My life is surreal - like if Kafka and Hunter S. Thompson got together and took a road-trip to Disneyland...

Oxford Road, Manchester, by Valette, 1910
Impressionism’s ability to make our smoke-filled factory-stacked industrial revolution cities beautiful is incredible. And these images of Manchester a century ago do make me happy - I can’t look at this image without trying to work out where Spar would be…

Oxford Road, Manchester, by Valette, 1910

Impressionism’s ability to make our smoke-filled factory-stacked industrial revolution cities beautiful is incredible. And these images of Manchester a century ago do make me happy - I can’t look at this image without trying to work out where Spar would be…