About Me ( Please Read First )

I live in Southern Greece and am and always have been, I suppose, a gourmet. I cannot  remember a day when I have not thought about food,  and have almost photographic taste buds.

I can still remember the taste of my mother’s breast milk, and the taste and texture of the first solid that was pushed in to my gaping maw; a piece of  buttered toast dipped in to tea,  I am still a tea and toast fan to this day. ” What about your  wedding day?”  I hear you say. Well actually on my wedding day I was out of  bed at 6 am to start cooking the food for our guests.

As for the time travel thing,  ah  you’re dubious I see,  let me explain.  Many years ago when just a lad I started to have very strange dreams,  always of the past, and I was always about 35 years old   ( the same age as in the picture you see at the foot of the page) and they were  very vivid,  life-like.  I assumed these were just dreams,  that is until I started finding things!  The first thing I found  was after a particularly vivid one about being on a beach late at night with a  young lady in Southern France in 1947 and eating oysters.  On awakening I found myself not only clutching an oyster shell, but also itching from all the sand stuck to me from wrestling with the young lady in question,  this happened many times.  Then in one dream at  Cafe  Tartine in Paris  I met another traveller who told me about the whole gig ,  also how to control the experience and about chronogenetics in general. I also learned that many people who travel are famous so you never know which great character, from past or present, you will bump into next as they flit, hauntingly, back and forth. There is Oscar for instance  whom I first met in paris in1895, but now is the host of a comedy quiz show on the BBC, or  ruler and goddess of  Egypt and all its lands Cleopatra Ptolemy,  who now has to make ends meet as a  British TV chef.  When I see her tucking her dark locks behind her ear as she gets animated,  I remember the girl sat in a bath of  milk doing the same gesture and talking about the overthrow of the Roman Empire over 2000 years ago, you just can’t get the worshipers nowadays.

Travellers simply use their travelling skills as a tool, so to speak, to further their careers what ever they may be.  And actually the person who told me about these powers and how to spot other travellers was none other than Thomas Jefferson!!!!

I do hope we will have fun together as I guide you through my life,  whether I am  writing about food or travel (in the broadest sence of the word that is) or just about life’s quirks in general.

David

That’s me, so here are a few things that I  am interested in:

Mycology,  Forests,  Food and Drink,  Travel,  Crime fiction,  Art,  Literature,  Photography,   Animism,  Shade,  Magick,  Ngamiland Botswana,  Light,  Nighttime,  Applied arts (design),  Chronogenetic engineering,  Komboloi,   Perceptual psychiatry,  Hedonism,  Aesthetics,  Cafe Culture,  The Cafe Neon,  Paris,  Absinthe,  Walking in the shadows,   Social criticism,  Love,

Favourite  Books:

Blood Meridian,  anything by James Ellroy,  Atonement,  Bone in the Throat,  Thongs,  La-Bas,  Quiet Days in Clichy,  Mambo Kings,  Tropic of Capricorn,  Platform,  Vernon God Little.

Favourite Films:

Down by Law,  Whitnail and I,  The Big Lebowski,  Tampopo,  The Milagro Beanfield War,   Goodfellas,  The Hairdressers Husband,  Betty Blue,  LA Story,   Henry and June,  The Godfather Part Two,  Monsoon Wedding,  Manhattan,  Amores Perros,  Before Sunset,  Before Sunrise,  Night on Earth,  Once Upon A Time in America,  Raging Bull,