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New York? Well, you know…

No, it was fucking excellent. I’ll write a bit about it over the next few days, but suffice to say it was the shit.

But by god, it was cold. I had New Yorkers apologising to me. And it snowed most days! In April! Yeah I know! New Yorkers - apologising!

Seriously though, it got bitter - colder than Christmas day, they said.

It was otherwise amazing. Apart from the news, where they (and I swear) said things like:

Police searched the area with thermal imaging equipment and canine dogs.

and

The company prides itself on recruiting women and other minority groups.

But I love the States, and any form of anti-Americanism is racism, pure and simple, and that can’t be good. They gave us Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Aaron Copeland and James Taylor and painters like the Wyeths, Frasier, peanut butter, corn and the best sport fans in the world.

Yes, they believe that their troops in Iraq are fighting for their country (they aren’t - they do a fine job I would be unable to do since I am a lesser man than the least of any of them - they are barely containing a civil war, but they are not fighting for my freedom or theirs), so let’s cut them some slack.

It’s good to be back really. I mean back writing here. I missed it, the discipline and the general wiseassery. I was in a stationery store in New York, trying out pencils on the sample pad that was filled with the usual sentences:

This is my pen.
Hello everyone.
The weather today is partly blah blah blah…

What did I write?

QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER SLOWER BROWN FOX
Lazy dog unavailable for comment

See? Without this site, I’m just a jerk.

How about those guest bloggers, though, yeah? Am I right?

A serious big thank you to everyone who wrote here while I was away. I know that posting for another blog feels a bit like using someone else’s toothbrush, but the writing was great and I hope you enjoyed them as much as me.

It’s cool to find a diverse group of artists, but it’s a downright privilege to host all of them in a way that works.

Tomorrow: A bad start at the airport

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