stealthtractor

Recommendation from stealthtractor’s book club (like Richard & Judy’s, less commercial): Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Killer students.

The RT graduate speech synopsis: a blend of confidence and humility will get you a long way towards your dreams. As will knowing when to run

I’ll be guest of the Holiday Inn conglomerate tonight. I’ve got all my must-haves with me: Moleskine, Space Pen, other lofi geek tools.

Three songs that have me busting out the air guitar: Here I Go Again, Back In Black and I Wanna Rock. Fist-pumping heaven.

A pithy history: saw West Wing pilot, declared “meh” to self and peers, rewatched two years later, realised error, enjoyed up to season 5.

Pen & paper nicer than keyboard & screen, but schoolboy handwriting spoils the aesthetic. Solutions: i) better writing, ii) get over myself

Were I the Master of Geography, I’d transplant London and its inhabitants to the south of France and watch the beautiful consequences.

What can you surmise of a man by the fact he wears slippers, and tatty ones at that, around the office? Careful, the man/legend is I.

Would be nice to use my razor-edged elbows for good, buckling swashes and such. But neat ideas thin on the ground - tin opener?