Time Enough

So, 2006. A nice rounded figure, numerically speaking, only one little straight line.

Must admit I'm tired of the unnormality that comes from having birthday, christmas, and new years in quick succession - I'm ready for some uneventful averageness now, please. The unholy troika of anniversary-type events also can get you on a mental track of considering the passing of time in unhelpful ways ... and in honour of that thought I've posted a picture from my last trip to Dungeness.

Time acts quicker here, and everytime I go the abandoned fishermen's shacks on the shingle are edging closer to oblivion - this time one had gone completely, just a pile of planks and rusted metal, another one had lost its door and will probably go soon now the wind and rain can enter, another continued to lean over at an even crazier angle than on my last visit.

For a more traditional appraisal of time's arrows flight though 2005 (a number with three straight lines and a right-angle!) here are a few of my favourite cultural thingamagigs from a year that was politically and otherwise externally fantastically unpleasant. Best photo show: Carl De Keyzer's Zona in York. Best photo book: Larry Towell's No Man's Land. Best film: Joss Whedon's Serenity. Best TV: HBO's The Wire. Best record(s): The Fall's Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 boxset, and also 50ft Wave's Golden Ocean. Best novel: Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.