I admire your persistence and your communicative style. I am envious and a bit astonished at how you are able to communicate with these spiky Southerners - very WalterBenjaminesque in the arcades, incorporating top level flaneurship
I'm intimidated by your penwomanship Rosie, (perhaps should that be keyboardwomanship), so doubt I can write anything sensible, but I'm concerned you had to travel to your polar opposite to get a proper hug. Does that say something about what our society has become?
I think you might have enjoyed the hikoi; it felt like it unified a lot of people, although no doubt some became more entrenched bigots.
Thanks Rosie, as an ex-Londoner I'm enjoying your view of the place and its life (I say ex-, it's been 8 long years, but then longer I don't live there, the more I realise how much it's part of me...)
The Stone Tarot sounds really interesting, but I can't find more than a mention of it in your other writings (it's not so easy to search for specific stuff within substacks, I find) - if you've written more about could you point me towards it?
Hello, I have written about it elsewhere but not here- that's a good post-prompt! It was a piece I made for the performance art festival Parking Day, where you get the use of a downtown carpark for a day. My city is very windy, so I had been thinking for ages about a deck that couldn't blow away. Will write a more comprehensive explanation once I've moved into my new house. Watch this space.
I admire your persistence and your communicative style. I am envious and a bit astonished at how you are able to communicate with these spiky Southerners - very WalterBenjaminesque in the arcades, incorporating top level flaneurship
I'm intimidated by your penwomanship Rosie, (perhaps should that be keyboardwomanship), so doubt I can write anything sensible, but I'm concerned you had to travel to your polar opposite to get a proper hug. Does that say something about what our society has become?
I think you might have enjoyed the hikoi; it felt like it unified a lot of people, although no doubt some became more entrenched bigots.
Thanks for your writing, again.
Ha ha thanks Alan! I'm sure I could get quality hugs if I wanted, but hugs are like drugs- best to have them only when you're in the mood.
Thanks Rosie, as an ex-Londoner I'm enjoying your view of the place and its life (I say ex-, it's been 8 long years, but then longer I don't live there, the more I realise how much it's part of me...)
The Stone Tarot sounds really interesting, but I can't find more than a mention of it in your other writings (it's not so easy to search for specific stuff within substacks, I find) - if you've written more about could you point me towards it?
Hello, I have written about it elsewhere but not here- that's a good post-prompt! It was a piece I made for the performance art festival Parking Day, where you get the use of a downtown carpark for a day. My city is very windy, so I had been thinking for ages about a deck that couldn't blow away. Will write a more comprehensive explanation once I've moved into my new house. Watch this space.
P.S. I agree about the search function...
Wonderful writing Rosie. I just loved reading this- felt I was there too