Welcome, bienvenue, aloha.
Initial topics to include living and working in central London, the financial meltdown, and the U.S. presidential election. Baseline material will relate broadly to the media, politics, history, science, human progress, film, music, art, business innovation, the social life and food.
The name is a play on Hunter S. Thompson’s first novel, The Rum Diary, which is set in Puerto Rico in the 1950s. Written between notorious bouts of drinking while working a beat for the local newspaper, it captures his thoughts on work, life and his surroundings at the time. It also tells a story of ambition, angst, and a desire for authenticity that I think are common to most twenty-somethings today, not just me. But I don’t really drink rum. I like gin better. I also live in London, UK, whose history is as soaked by gin as Puerto Rico’s is by rum.
Regular and ongoing updates to follow.
