Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Conversation
He held the light for me I saw the door there was no Spot – outside and inside. It was my first day In the new house. Dad,...
Pursuit music
We drove for years past Super 8s & motor inns, blue neon swimming like luminol across the windscreen, cruised by phone...
Cape York
When you arrive at the tip of the Cape, the coast opens its arms and you’re split into the rivulets left...
The morning fog (A Golden Shovel after Kate Bush)
is sweetest at the Tropic of Capricorn, the colour of lemon chiffon cake, and just as light. It might begin with...
Ingredients for preservation
Wear calico dress with Blueboard shoes, Corflute wings, Mylar glasses, dangling Ethafoam earrings. Create houses for each object. Know what is inside without a reference image. Bundle up...
Orison
Three days later, we bought a Newton’s cradle. Put it on the table, and heartsick, tried to click click click our way...
Meteorology
I can predict the future. A little. And everyone loves to talk about the weather. I find what patterns I...
Q&A
[What are some common sources of light?] And, can light survive exposure to extreme temperatures? These are both questions we are...
Routines
About once a day I think about the wetness of Ellen’s eyes as Obama placed the Presidential Medal of...
Adjudged
William Spalyng, who, for selling putrid beef…was put upon the pillory, and the carcasses were burnt beneath. Arthur Griffiths, The...
Pirate mailbox
In Cincinnati, just south of the Hamilton County Zoo, on a south-east corner where Erkenbrecher Avenue intersects Vine Street,...
Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
He had four hippos in his private zoo and would visit them each dawn in his silk kimono to explain survival...
