The Geecologist

The Inside World

The Inside World

Dec 2, 2018 | 2018, Featured, Mixes, Toons | 0 comments

Two mixes in one year, this is bordering on prolific! Ken Nordine kicks this mix off with some of his unique ‘word jazz’ stylings, before we move over to world jazz, a whole heap of afrobeat, classic and modern, the surprisingly beautiful theme music to...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

May 1, 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

From the Veranda of the Room of the Last Chrysanthemum at the MagistracyThe Ninth Day of the Ninth Month Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens,...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Apr 9, 2016 | Fiction | 0 comments

‘This is about’ – the Irishman balances his hat on his thigh – ‘what we’d call, at home, a “skeleton in the cupboard”.’ ‘On Walcheren we say, “a body in the vegetable patch”.’ ‘Monster turnips, then, on Walcheren. May I speak in English?’ ‘Do so. If I need your help,...
Dear Life

Dear Life

Aug 19, 2014 | Fiction | 0 comments

She looked for the more important man to help her, but he wasn’t there. Now she remembered what he’d written. A play about Doukhobors that had caused a big row because the Doukhobors were going to have to be naked. Of course they weren’t real Doukhobors, they were...
The 100% Perfect Girl

The 100% Perfect Girl

Sep 21, 2013 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighbourhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her...