I Am Deceptacon

When living with strangers, one must adopt strange tactics in dealing with other’s bad habits. Let’s call these tactics, albeit lies, “diplomacy.”
Now we have a problem in our flat: I have spotted mice on several occasions in the kitchen. My response was natural, I wanted to clean the kitchen, put all signs of [...]

Some advice to Posh

Last Friday’s Guardian article gave me a real chuckle. The following is my advice to Mrs. Beckham:
Dear Vicky,
On behalf of Los Angeles, and on behalf of myself as a native Angelino, I would like to offer you a simple tip: you really don’t need all that couture. Perhaps you like to faff around [...]

The Pounding: A real-life account

So the other day, I had a heated conversation with my mother regarding a LA Times article she had read about expats living in the UK.  The article described a few scenarios, featuring a couple who had basically given up their dream of retirement in order to live in London for the sake of the [...]

Project Idea

Below is a digital art piece that I finished sometime earlier this month. The image is of a lion–actually a stone statue–that I came across in an Edinburgh kirkyard/cemetery. I can’t remember what the name of the cemetery is at the moment, but it was in New Town off of Leith Walk. [...]

Lion from New Town