Jeremiad

Just back from Barcelona, living the good life for a while. How many more years will that be possible? Not that I think that life will be "bad" per se, but it's difficult to be entirely optimistic. And this kind of week long city break using cheap airlines is almost certainly in its final days. I read Derrick Jensen's A Language Older Than Words while away, which is a truly great book - and I'm now started on Book 1 of his new Endgame opus. Dig the pic? I do, it accompanies a new interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the latest Rolling Stone in which he adds his voice to the peak oil debate "What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum". You can read some of the piece "Vonnegut's Apocalypse" online. Squeezed out another maudlin poem "Jagged Mountain" while away, you can read it over at Rubedo.