Presenting to you, for your reading pleasure a series of unrelated points, one of which with tenuous architectural content:

Firstly:
I don’t know which I should be more excited about; the fact that a Danish Prince decided to marry a Tasmanian named Mary or that Krispy Kreme donuts are opening a store in the city. Our Mary, is certainly occupying a great deal of real estate in the printed media however double-deep-fried-donuts have gathered lines of mythical proportions out Penrith way. Either the folk at Weta Digital have been working their magic out panthers way or these lines actually exist and are made up of real people. I don’t care how good the donuts are, people should not line up for them.

Secondly:
Alain de Botton spoke on tuesday at the Sydney Wrtiters Festival. He and Andrea Stratton, waxed lyrical on Proust, the value of reading, why his writing is more than mere self help and why there are no great women philosophers - at least in the olden days. He truly was a pleasure to listen to; his turn of phrase and quiet, studied, Cambridge accent made for an entirely pleasant hour of chit chat. At the end of the talk it was revealed that, no his next piece of writing would not be on Dante, much to the dissapointment of an elderly litterati in the audience, but rather that it would be concerning architecture. It seems that he is fascinated by how we relate to space. “So are we!” cried Antoinette and I, unable to contain our excitement. On quieter reflection though, high up in my mountain retreat where I drink only the purest of mountain spring water and eat the leaves of the plant with the red berries, I have come to the conclusion that it is a potentially scary situation. This could be another Pattern Language, complete with cut and paste zen views and anti-modernism rhetoric. Alternatively it could be In Praise of Shadows which be okay I guess. For now we will give him the benefit of the doubt, he seemed affable enough and I enjoyed his baldness but if he starts dissing modernism because of the poor imitators of Mies and le Corbusier then he will truly know the pain of being criticised on a little-read niche webpage.

Thirdly (briefly):
To keep you abreast of my fantasies concerning typing in the dark, they will be fulfilled within ten working days, as evidenced by a sudden, drastic drop in my savings.

Parte the Fourthe:
The first mega-run of Functional Jones apparel was created today. Fifty fine t-shirts made of cotton and imprinted with design phantasique.