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Artists of Tomorrow

Posted on 27 July 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong London, 2008 – My friend Kyle and I spend four hours at a pub on Goodge St., bonding over pints of beer and bowls of chips. Having just met, we discuss our pasts leading up to this … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature | Tagged alice b. toklas, art, beer, bergamot station, books, c.s. lewis, england, ernest hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, France, gertrude stein, goodge street, henri matisse, j. r. r. tolkien, james joyce, london, los angeles, oxford, pablo picasso, paris, paul cezanne, pubs, science fiction, shakespeare and company, slake, sylvia beach, the eagle and child, The Lord of the Rings, ulysses | 1 Comment

How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep Like an Urchin in London

Posted on 9 June 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong If you’re an American lucky enough to travel to London in the near future, good for you. Just don’t tell us. We may resent you forever. Unless you’re offering to take us with you. But chances are … Continue reading →

Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Travel | Tagged accents, america, bars, bicycles, borough, borough market, brick lane, bush administration, camden, canada, canada water, cars, don cheadle, england, english food, fringe theatre, george w. bush, great british pound, Guinness, hampstead, hampstead heath, hostels, london, london underground, london zone 1, london zone 2, london zones, maps, money, museums, oyster card, parks, pubs, river thames, sainsbury's, sam smith, southbank, tate modern, taxis, tractatus logico-philosophicus, traffic, tube, wells tavern, wittgenstein | Leave a comment

Thinking Back and Looking Forward

Posted on 6 January 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong As the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration approaches, I think all the way back to last January. The Urchins had a visitor, Kindra’s mum, who was staying in a hotel in Canary Wharf, and so there … Continue reading →

Posted in Geo, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged 2008 us presidential election, america, barack obama, books, bookstores, dreams from my father, england, london, presidental inauguration, pubs, wells tavern | 1 Comment

Writers on Writers: Barack Obama and Doris Lessing

Posted on 4 January 2010 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong I’m quite thankful to have a literary president. Not only is President Obama an author (sans ghostwriter) of two books - both of which were written before (and in the case of Dreams from My Father, long before) his … Continue reading →

Posted in Art & Money, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged barack obama, books, doris lessing, dreams from my father, england, excerpts, feminism, fiction, london, misunderstandings, novels, postmodernism, pubs, television, the golden notebook, the urchin gets misunderstood | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: pubs

Artists of Tomorrow

How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep Like an Urchin in London

Thinking Back and Looking Forward

Writers on Writers: Barack Obama and Doris Lessing

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