A Brooklynite on the Ice

Originally the diary of 4 months spent in Antarctica working as a documentary film sound recordist, this blog has evolved into an online repository for the thoughts, travels and trivia of the writer Richard Fleming. For McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and polar exploration, see August through December of '06. Currently you are likely to find in these pages chronicles of my actual and literary meanderings, as well as notes on my many other passions. Also, did I mention I wrote a book?

9/03/2006

Transmission rupted...

After packing up all my ECW gear, layering myself like a woolen Napolean (that's a Mille Feuilles to you, you gallic gadabout) and praying fervently for a restive gastro-intestinal tract on the seven hour Pisten Bully traverse to Black Island, I arrived at the office fifteen minutes before our meet time only to discover that because of 50-knot winds we are postponed at least 24 hours.... This post showcases one of the more bizarre structural constraints of the blog: that, unless one is a most faithful subscriber, everything is experienced in reverse chronological order.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: you must be ... frustrAted ... disapOInted ...; 15:22
Anonymous said...: hey richard - I'm pretty envious - I wanted to join the British Antarctic Survey as an artist - my MA degree show is in less than a fortnight - look this is the first blog site I've ever seen - do I leave a pithy remark or tell you in depth about my dramatic lovelife - I'm thinking the pithy remark - bit short on those at the moment - but I'll be celebtating with a 'brooklynite on ice' at the show - what spirit do you recommend? love Leah; 18:03