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Oxfords, Not Brogues
By all accounts, Reginald John Blacklock lived a very ordinary life. Known simply as John to his friends, he was characterised predominantly as diligent, strongly principled, often prickly, and entirely dependable. John was born in 1942, with eyes of blue,… Continue reading
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Greetings, Dear Sun
Ahhhhhh… The Sun. The God of Gods. Divine Designer. Harbinger of All that is Good. The darkness trembles as The Sun heralds its arrival, sending ripples of thunderous crimsons, amethysts, and lilacs across the ill-fated night. Moving with the undefeated… Continue reading
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The Secular Thirst for Aesthetic Salvation
Humans, as storytelling beings, have forever cast themselves as the main characters in the universe’s great epic. All good stories have a beginning, middle and end, and the stories we tell are no different. For almost all of history, people… Continue reading
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The Wildcats, NH: An Appalachian Tale
I sit down to write about the Appalachian Trail, and there are dozens of days that would be in contention for the greatest. This day was certainly up there. We’d spent the last few days hiking through the White Mountains,… Continue reading
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The Case for Vegan-ish-ism
Vegetarians catch a lot of flak. Vegans catch more. But, in my personal experience, there is no one more reviled than the flexitarians. In my third year of university, I was vegetarian. Whilst on the Appalachian Trail, I ate whatever… Continue reading
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1,000 Miles of Trail Magic: An Appalachian Tale
As beautifully defined by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, trail magic describes “acts of generosity in [the] wild and primitive setting of the Appalachian Trail [which are] often received with a heightened sense of wonder and gratitude by hikers.” Trail angels… Continue reading
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Only a Fool or a Child
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was a film I admired greatly and enjoyed a lot. I saw it a few times in the cinemas, and thought the cinematography, technicality and direction were excellent. That said, I rarely have thought about it since.… Continue reading
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Introducing… An Appalachian Tale
I have long intended to write about my experiences on the Appalachian Trail. But every time I do, I am stumped. Where to begin? Can five months’ experience, undoubtedly the most revelatory and intense of my life, be reduced into… Continue reading
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Where Cows Once Wandered
Up and over, a swinging right, a meandering left, then a squiggly weave. Like a ribbon caught in the wind, repeat that thirty-four times and you have a good idea of what it feels like to drive down 300 yards… Continue reading
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Altman vs. Musk: Who is Lex Luthor?
Earlier this week, the world’s richest and most powerful unelected man, Elon Musk, tabled a $97.4 billion bid to take over the non-profit assets of OpenAI, the world’s most powerful AI organisation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and a very… Continue reading
