Non-Presence

by Kieran Healy on December 21, 2006

I’m sure you’re all tearing your hair out with frustration or worry, so I apologise for not posting much. For the past week I have been on a very tiny island on the south end of the Rangiroa atoll, in French Polynesia. No internet access there. Also no electricity.

In other news, it turns out that if you write a book called Last Best Gifts then the website for it gets a _big_ surge in hits from Google searches in the weeks before Christmas, but not because people are suddenly interested in the topic.

{ 4 comments }

1

Chris 12.22.06 at 12:28 am

Apparently, the philosophy of biology textbook Sex and Death (Sterelny and Griffiths) is one of the most returned books on amazon.

2

bad Jim 12.22.06 at 4:47 am

“Merry Christmas, Mike. Here’s my left kidney,” I said, handing up the festively decorated cooler. My brother is notoriously difficult to shop for.

3

tina 12.22.06 at 6:54 am

Merry Christmas, Kieran!

4

kid bitzer 12.22.06 at 10:59 am

for christ *sake*, kieran, why didn’t you call?
we’ve been worried sick about you!
i mean, is it so hard to just find a pay-phone and call to let us know that you’re still alive and haven’t been, i don’t know, murdered! or anything!

that was a thoughtless, inconsiderate thing to do. Your mother and I are very, very disappointed in you.
now go to your room.

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