Issue 161

S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M S P E C T R U M M I K E R U D D B I L L P U T T . C O MM M I K E R U D D B I L…

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..are hotly contested, in the same sense that having the first case of syphilis might be contested. Was it the Market Square in Lake Forest built in 1916 or the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City in 1922? Perhaps Highland Park Shopping Village built in 1931 in Dallas, which turned its back on the street…

Half out of the corner of my mind I heard emerge from the noise matrix of a video installation the phrase ’So many people living without me’. Was it a girl’s voice? I paid little attention and continued my way through the art gallery – being oddly impressed by the soft pendulous glooping of the…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. But I’m getting less sure that I’ve got the time. Film stars and musicians I grew up with are dropping of the coil daily. Friends and acquaintances, family – there’s hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear of somebody I knew being menaced by or succumbing to various…

.. in any case, I was on modest stipend (a bursary) that I was contracted to repay by becoming a teacher after graduating. In fact, now that I mention it, ambition is another area I’ve always been deficient in, so you put that together with a lack of vision and you might begin to understand…