I set myself the challenge of writing a little story where there’s a word-intersection for each line. Obviously this was influenced by my present obsession with the New York Times crossword.

I love the work at YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS and would be happy just to be the person who does it. But I’m not, so I just had to copy them.

This comes from one of my “morning pages” written on 23 June 2008. I have very little to say about it.

I forget why I wrote this short story other than as a musing on death in general and funerals in particular. I’ve always had a thing for inglorious ends.

I sometimes think about the idea of someone standing at the exact same window a floor below me, looking out at the city and leading a parallel life.

Saw an ad in the New Yorker (28 May 2007) and wanted to make a comic about jumping from mainland Italy to Sicily. But then I ran out of steam, as you will see.

I set myself the objective to make a comic in two hours no matter what, text included. And this is what I ended up with – using photos instead of drawings in order to be able to get it together.

Paddy O’Rourke “6-Week Studio”, rm103, Auckland, closed 14 April 2007.

I saw this pigeon sitting alone on a nice building façade in Cuba Mall in Wellington. So I gave him a nice love story.

These are texts based on works in Gordon Crook’s “Inhabiting the Circle”, Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington, 28 February – 24 March 2007.