Moneydick: archive

Current Location: Brighton, England
I’m now in a computer room at the University of Sussex in Brighton England. I’m surrounded by messy-haired Polish girls staring questioningly at their computer screen, bespectacled Asian guys squinting at Chinese emails from home, and a posh British girl yapping about last night on her mobile.
I arrived yesterday having caught the [...]

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Regent’s Gardens

The Canal North of Regent’s Park (full size)

Regent’s Park (full size)

At the Royal Naval Observatory, Greenwich

Greenwich Back Streets

Waterloo Bridge, London

-Images lovingly produced by Autostich.
Graffiti on the South Bank West of Waterloo Bridge in London:

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Londoners are privy to the finest in street entertainment in every public square, most tube stations, and in large markets. Here’s a collection of some videos to show you just what I mean.
Thanks to Youtube for hosting. You’ll need the flash player to view these horribly pixelated videos.
1: Holborn tube station Sep. 22nd 2005:

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Met an awesome brotha in Picadilly backpackers hostel in London a couple days ago. His name is Sasha, and he is most likely from a foreign country. Here he offers advice to not only the hostellers of London, but of the entire world. Follow along below if the video doesn’t work or you can’t understand. [...]

Well this was a funky day from the start. Simply because it started on Monday. I got off wok kind of late like at 7pm. I went to my friends house afterwards and we planned to goto his friends giant loft. we packed a bunch of stuff to go out with an artistic evening. I [...]

Two days ago I spent some time perusing the Freemason’s museum in London. It’s housed in a massive, parliamentary-like granite building on Queen’s Gate street just NE of the Picadilly area. I spotted some masonic symbols on the door and made my way past the guard at the front. I was asked to sign in, [...]

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London is brilliant, just brilliant. Haven’t completely formed my ‘opinion’ of it, but I’m getting a lot out of it so far.

I was denied access to entering the UK. Well, that’s not entirely true: It was for 20 minutes, but 20 minutes that felt like 5 hours. Here’s what happened: I got off the plane and walked up to the man who reads my ‘landing card’ and checks out my passport. He was a short Pakistani [...]