Author: Davey Dreamnation

  • “I’ll tell you to rack off in a minute if you’re not careful.”

  • Screen

    Your windowsills strewn with corpses of too-slow flies.

  • “He had read about this particular type of behaviour …”

  • No more tracked changes — this time it’s final (.docx).

  • My flight had been delayed by an awkward incident during a brief stopover in Z—. One of the passengers — an older man in a crumpled suit — had been pulled from the boarding queue. Two persons, who did not look as if they belonged to airport security, searched the man’s carry-on luggage. From my…

  • Tracer

    Even at the very end, when it seemed almost hopeless to everyone else, I still believed there was a small chance they’d make it. I fact I’d held onto that belief — stubbornly, I admit, and without logic — since the beginning of their journey. Of course, I’d had no way of knowing who they…

  • Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10klm race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…

  • Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…

  • Feeling deep in Fryslân now.

  • Time to get back to basics.

  • My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.

  • years since the gap first appeared between the teeth of a little girl picking raspberries from her mother’s hand by the poisoned stream a toxic tale of porcelain has traced its tiny fingers round the lines on contour maps (& their bedroom walls they stick our portraits & sit up for haircuts while you look…

  • Simple

    As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.

  • This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!

  • Another staycation post, on a place where I like to go for a walk but never swim.