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Posted on 18/08/07

No ideas but in stamps, flags and other things

Shopaholics at least have an excuse, even a raison d'être, for making their lives a refuge for stuff. But what's my explanation? I avoid the mall at all costs, practice a shopping regimen even the Pope would find austere, and yet to judge from my jam-packed surroundings, I'm compulsively acquisitive - despite any claims to intellectual purity, my existence seems to be situated somewhere between a memorabilia collection and a show-and-tell class.

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