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Food Meme


Food Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

1. Large Breakfast, 2. chish n fips, 3. The rock fishes, 4. Nuts to Christmas, 5. Adnams “The Bitter” (Cask), 6. Homemade Bread, 7. DSC11784 – Cow stomach (beef tripe) in meat market (Laos), 8. Too much f*cking pizza, 9. pernod, 10. my sister, the blue-eyed Indian bride, 11. Hinder, 12. Gala Apple

Questions and Answers:
1. What is your favorite breakfast? Fried cholesterol
2. What is your favorite lunch? Chish ‘n’ Fips
3. What is your favorite dinner? Bouillabaisse
4. What is your favorite snack? Nuts
5. What is your favorite drink? Adnams
6. What is something you eat everyday (or often)? Homemade Bread
7. What is a food you hate? Tripe
8. What is your guilty pleasure (as far as food is concerned)? Too Much
9. What food smells gross to you? Pernod
10. What is your favorite ethnic food? Indian
11. What is your favorite restaurant? Tilley’s Bistro, Bath
12. What was the last thing you ate? An Apple

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Midweek Mini Movie Meme


Midweek Mini Movie Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

1. The Smartest Of The Goldfish, 2. Carry on Teacher (Gerald Thomas, 1959), 3. Boredom… , 4. happy new year, see you on the other side

As I don’t do films, here are my usual off the wall answers …

1. Favorite movie as a kid?
Brain the size of a planet and they think I care about films?

2. What movie has been shotin your hometown or near you?
Name any Ealing Studios film

3. While watching a flick, your favorite snack at the theatre or on your sofa?
Nothing, ‘cos I don’t watch films — so here’s a leggy brunette instead 🙂

4. What movie character do you think you’re most like?
Oh some goon or other!

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Osho on Pornography

A final thought from Osho, this time on pornography …

What is pornography, and why does it have so much appeal?

Pornography is a by-product of religious repression. The whole credit goes to the priests […] pornography is created, managed by the Church, by the religious people.

In a primitive, natural state, man is not pornographic. When human beings are naked, man knows the woman’s body and woman knows the man’s body, and you cannot sell Playboy. It is impossible. Who will purchase Playboy? […]

The whole credit goes to the religious establishment. They have repressed so much that man’s mind is boiling. The man wants to see the woman’s body. Nothing wrong in it, a simple desire, a human desire. And the woman wants to know the man’s body. A simple desire, nothing wrong about it.

Just think of a world where trees are covered with clothes. I have heard about some English ladies who cover their dogs and cats with clothes. Just think, cows and horses and dogs dressed. Then you will find new pornography arising. Somebody will
publish a nude picture of a tree – and you will hide it in a Bible and look at it!

This whole foolishness is out of religious repression.

Make man free, allow people to be nude. I am not saying they should continuously be nude, but nudity should be accepted. On the beach, at the swimming pool, in the home – nudity should be accepted. The children should take a bath with the mother, with the father, in the bathroom. There is no need for the father to lock the bathroom when he goes in. The children can come and have a talk and chitchat and go out. Pornography will disappear.

Each child wants to know, “How does my daddy look?” Each child wants to know, “How does my mother look?” And this is simply intelligence, curiosity. And the child cannot know what the mother looks like, and the child cannot know what the father looks like; now you are creating illness in the child’s mind. It is you who is ill, and the illness will be reflected in the child’s mind.

I am not saying sit nude in the office or in the factory […] there is no need to be naked, it should not be an obsession; however, this continuous obsession of hiding your body is just ugly.

And one thing more: because of the clothes, bodies have become ugly because then you don’t care. You care only about the face. If your belly goes on becoming bigger and bigger, who bothers? You can hide it […] let one hundred people stand nude, and they all will be ashamed […] and they will start hiding themselves. Something is wrong. Why is it so? They know only about their face – the face they take care of; the whole body is neglected.

This is bad. This is not good. It is not in favour of the body, either.

Any country where people are allowed a little freedom to be nude becomes more beautiful; people have more beautiful bodies […]

Nudity should be natural, should be as natural as animals, as trees, as everything else is nude. Then pornography will disappear.

[Osho, Sex Matters, pp 137-8]

Vacation Meme


Vacation Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr photo meme.

1. Small DSLR, 2. Popular Photography Magazine’s Featured Sunset *, 3. Eel in the smoke, 4. steam train through avondale july 07, 5. 1600×1280 – Morocco-beach – sun-sea-sand-pebbles, 6. Flowers for Mothers Day- UK 2nd March., 7. A locomotive To Brocken, 8. Winterwald, 9. Wellcome…into Alice’s Wonderland, 10. Bratwurst, 11. Mannequin Pis, 12. The most sacred place of Japan

Questions and Answers:
1. What is a must-pack in your travel bag or suitcase? (you just wouldn’t leave home without it) Olympus DSLR
2. What is your favourite thing to do while on vacation? Photography as an alternative to nothing with a bottle of wine
3. What is your great food/cuisine you have had or tried while traveling? Smoked Eel; heavenly
4. What is your favourite mode of travel – most enjoyable way to get there? Steam Train; first class, of course
5. What is your favourite way of “relaxing/unwinding” while traveling? Sun, Sea, Sand probably just edges out mountains and forest
6. Visiting friends and family sometimes involves travel – what relatives or friends do you visit most often when you go? (i.e. grandma, Uncle Bob, or Kate) My Mother
7. What was the best man-made wonder you ever saw/experienced while traveling? Steam Trains in Harz Mountains
8. What was the best wonder of Mother Nature that you ever saw/experienced while traveling? Winter Mountians and Forest
9. You could only take one book to read while travelling or on vacation – what would be in your bag? If I really can have only one volume then Alice in Wonderland; or more likely I wouldn’t take a book but buy something interesting along the way
10. Okay, you need a snack in that carry-on or backpack – what would it be? Bratwurst in a Bun
11. What is the “most touristy” thing you have done or place you have visited? Mannequin Pis; it’s such a horrible tourist attraction you have to see it once and be disappointed
12. You just won an all-expenses one-week trip anywhere in the world, where would you choose? Japan although it’s really too far for just a week

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Nico's


Nico’s, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 33/52 (2008 week 41).
Yet another reflection picture!

This week I’ve been eating out at the best “greasy spoon” in all London: Nico’s, 299 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL. Open Monday thru’ Saturday, 0645 to 1900. It is right outside Bethnal Green tube station on junction of Bethnal Green Road and Cambridge Heath Road.

Greek Cypriot, now run by the second generation. You can have anything from a bacon roll, through Egg & Chips to Dolmades or Kleftico. The food is cheap and the portions are large; do not order the mixed grill unless you are a real glutton or starving: it comes on two(!!) oval plates, one of meat the other piled with chips. A steak sandwich comes with (free) chips on the side — a full portion of chips that is! And they’re real chips too. Everything is cooked to order and the kitchen is openly visible from the counter. Needless to say it does a steady trade! Eat in or take-away.

It is very close to the V&A Museum of Childhood, where Noreen works; I was there too earlier this week and was taken out to lunch at Nico’s: I had: 2 (large) Sausages, Mushrooms and (a pile of) Chips; can Diet Coke. Noreen had: Double Egg, Beans and (a pile of) Chips; can Diet Coke. Total cost £8.50.

Highly recommended for restoring the soul but not for either the cholesterol levels or the waistline. Pure food pornography. 🙂


Nico’s, originally uploaded by kcm76.

The Atheist's Prayer

I found this somewhere on the intertubes the other day and thought it should be more widely known.

The Atheist’s Prayer

Our brains, which art in our heads,
treasured be thy name.
Thy reasoning come.
Thy best you can do be done on earth as it is.
Give us this day new insight to help us
resolve conflicts and ease pain.
And lead us not into supernatural explanations;
deliver us from denial of logic.
For thine is the kingdom of reason,
and even though thy powers are limited,
and you’re not always glorious,
you are the best evolutionary adaptation
we have for helping this earth now and
for ever and ever.
So be it.

Pieces of Me


Pieces of Me, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 31/52 (2008 week 39).

This is the collection of metal I wear permenantly; this scan was the first time they have all been removed in years — even the last couple of times I’ve had operations I’ve kept my wedding ring (middle right) on (but taped over).

Beliefs Meme


Beliefs Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

1. on earth all things are connected, 2. “Nothing Is True. Everything Is Possible.”, 3. religion, 4. Pick a god, any god, 5. Daily Paint 5/21: Yeti!, 6. Puff is Still The Magic Dragon, 7. DSCN3611, 8. Summer Time, 9. Dust to Dust, 10. ‘SIGNS OF RELGION AND BELIEFS FROM ABOUT 6500 B.C.’ – ‘FROM NOW WHAT IS MODERN TURKEY’ – ‘AT THE TOWN ‘CATAL HUYUK” – Best viewed large !, 11. Miles Levin’s memorial service, 12. Nut

As I thought up this subject I thought I’d better do it. 🙂

The Questions & Answers:
1. Something or somebody you believe in All things are connected
2. Descreibe your god in three words Everything and nothing
3. Something evil you believe exists Religion
4. Something you are totally unable to believe in God, any god
5. A conspiracy theory you believe is possible The yeti
6. A mythical animal you believe in? Dragons
7. What religion do you profess? Non-deism
8. Your favourite “holy” place Haven’t got one
9. What do you believe happens when we die? Dust to dust, ashes to ashes
10. Something everyday and ordinary that you find incredible Belief
11. What was the last religious event that you attended? Memorial service
12. Your favourite ancient god (Greek, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Egyptian, etc.) Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky

Oh and there isn’t a single animate object in the images!

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