Rhodri Marsden

Drawing Flanks

I’ve never been able to draw. Or paint, or chalk, or sculpt bloody great heads from marble. I simply can’t make anything look remotely like anything else. Art lessons were tortuously embarrassing at school. I think my worst memory is of trying to make a hedgehog out of clay when I was 11 years old, [...]

Spotify Imposters

Last night I watched two programs on BBC2 that had something to do with space. I can’t really handle space. I’d be a shit astrophysicist. Anything that shows me up as being completely insignificant tends to send me into a spiral of introspective depression, and space is a prime offender on that count. Although so [...]

The Independent: Why are we fed up with smartphones? http://is.gd/a5f7J

rhodrimarsden: The Independent: Why are we fed up with smartphones? http://is.gd/a5f7J

The Independent: From tiny dotcoms the internet has grown http://is.gd/a5dgJ

rhodrimarsden: The Independent: From tiny dotcoms the internet has grown http://is.gd/a5dgJ

The Independent: Is it safe for kids to use social networking websites? http://is.gd/a5cIs

rhodrimarsden: The Independent: Is it safe for kids to use social networking websites? http://is.gd/a5cIs

Stinging Liver

On returning to London yesterday I went to grab some food in this caff, which looks like it might be called “The Bun”, which would be brilliant, but it’s actually called “The Bungalow”, which is almost as good as “The Bun”. It prompted me to come up with a barely thought-out theory about the quality [...]

Controversial Scallop

I’m writing to you from Aldeburgh, the Suffolk village where a local chef famously smashed the windscreen of a Ferrari belonging to Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay in a drunken fury over, I dunno, the uncanny similarity between the chorus of “Cosmic Girl” and some ELO b-side from 1973 or something. Now, I’m not a man [...]

The Independent: Does internet access qualify as a human right? http://is.gd/9DbLu

rhodrimarsden: The Independent: Does internet access qualify as a human right? http://is.gd/9DbLu

The Independent: It’s like tackling shoplifting by removing all the escalators http://is.gd/9rnbe

rhodrimarsden: The Independent: It's like tackling shoplifting by removing all the escalators http://is.gd/9rnbe

The Independent: Are catchy domains worth the cash? http://is.gd/9GBUG