The Uncertain

  • Moore Crumb

    Growing up in Malaysia, It was impossible to get hold of comics but as my father was in the US in the late 90s, I was able to obtain a random collection, however, most of which just weren’t great. Regardless, I’ve often wanted to read the sort of revolutionary cartoons that emerged throughout the counter…

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    Moore Crumb

  • Return

    I’ve been coming back and forth from this journal over the years since I left London to chronicle my thoughts and memories through uncertain travels. It’s now seven years since I left and about five years in Boston. The isolation during the 2020 pandemic lock-down was harsh and drove me to many dark nights. Much…

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    Return

  • 12th of the 12th

    How many days, weeks and months has it been? A few days, weeks or months ago, I took pleasure in watching chipmunks, squirrels, cardinals and god knows what other winged creatures feed from the seeds I left them. Now, it’s just me wiping the dust of the surfaces. Laks Arlington, MA

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    12th of the 12th

  • 17th of the 6th

    This morning I pulled open the curtains to bird song I saw a rabbit gallop on the narrow paved alley I saw a shadow of a squirrel on the power line Three months in Laks Indrakaran Somerville, MA

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    17th of the 6th

  • Calling the Cranes – Update

    Emergency Season Calling the Cranes is still on the air, albeit airing recorded shows. If you miss it live, you can listen to it on Mixcloud. All shows are freshly mixed every alternate week. Lex I

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    Calling the Cranes – Update

  • Foot

    On the bottom of my left foot there is a scar from a leech bite On the top, a scar of a spider bite…and another leech bite On the front, scuffed crumpled toes from wearing boots On the left side, swelling from a poorly healed broken bone On the right side, the drooping arches of…

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    Foot

  • Calling the Cranes

    WMBR 88.1 FM I have been granted a show on MIT’s campus radio WMBR 88.1 FM in Cambridge, MA for the 2019 fall season. I will be on every alternate Sundays at 11 am beginning on October 6th. The next show will air this Sunday, October 20th and the following show on November 3rd and…

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    Calling the Cranes

  • Aimless

    I stood under a tree tonight, watching the cigarette smoke take the shape of the cool breeze that is gently rustling the leaves. What will this life amount to? The same thought seeps through as I leaf through pages. The same thought circles as I lay awake in bed, hearing every tick of the clock.…

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    Aimless

  • Agnes

    The life of an artist is inspired, self-sufficient and independent. – Advice to Young Artists- Unpublished manuscript deposited at the Institute of Contemporary Art.  A little tribute to Agnes Martin whom I have gained great admiration for when a friend told me about her no more than a month ago. I found the following…

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    Agnes

  • Whatever

    Narrated by a depressive and socially isolated protagonist, Michel Houellebecq’s first novel Whatever traces the disaggregating effects of post-Fordism on the intimate spaces of human affect. Set in the burgeoning information technology industry of the mid-1990s among a hitherto literarily neglected social group of middle managers (cadres), the novel suggests that the cultural project of…

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    Whatever