Tuesday, July 12, 2011: Air Asia Flight D72703, Somewhere Over Indonesia At any given time, without pulling a muscle, ruffling your shirt, dramatically changing position or even raising an eyebrow, you will easily be able to touch at least 11 people. 13 if the flight attendants are walking past with their cart. Your breath is [...]
Right now I’m 11km above Bali on an Air Asia flight from Coolangatta to Kuala Lumpur. I’m five hours into an eight hour flight. The girl next to me has fallen asleep and I’ve got nothing but an iPad and a packet of mints for entertainment. Ben, bandmate, bro and BFF is sitting 11 rows [...]
I wanted to help out the people of Japan and New Zealand in the wake of their horrifying natural disasters so I asked a few of my favourite writers and friends to contribute to an eBOOK I curated. The result is Fault Lines and it’s now available from http://faultlines.info/. There’s a new (uncharacteristically serious but [...]