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Anniversary
2008-03-04 09:41:00 Stupid things I remember about that love affair: We met at a friend’s house. A huge house. I can’t remember the first thing who said to who, only that he was tired and wanted to go to bed, too polite to say so when I stopped him outside his room to talk to him. I had ... More About: Anniversary
Why do I keep a blog?
2008-03-02 20:41:00 Saturday, 1st March, 1.43 pm - Highgate Wood Deep in the wood. No one could find me here without looking for me. Who would look for me? Called Little One - wanted somewhere to go whilst strangers view my flat and remind me of what I’m doing, of where I’m trying to go, of how I ... More About: Blog , Queen
An earthquake in London?
2008-02-27 02:10:00 1.10am The room just literally shook. Very gently, but very definitely. At first, with my quaint little history of petit mal and red wine, I thought it was just me, but a few other people say they felt something too. Was that an Earthquake in England just now? 1.23am The BBC is now reporting this More About: London
February Dregs
2008-02-19 15:23:00 Miss Havisham: burned to death Potter about. Diddle on work website. Scratch as iTunes peppers the day. Stare at the piles of unpacked books and unsorted clutter and feel like the end of university all over again. Door goes. Ignore it. Hear key at the door. Throw on dressing gown. Politely suggest to buzzarding estate agent ... More About: February
Blind Fate
2008-02-18 01:22:00 Sometimes when we don’t want to hear the answer to a question, it’s easier not to ask it. It doesn’t make the answer any easier to hear of course, regardless of whether you ask. More About: Fate , Blind
Blog for life: You?re Not The Only One
2008-02-10 20:57:00 The pretty Miss Peach has come up with a practical exercise for people who love the sound of their own keyboards. A small group of bloggers are putting together a book of short pieces by, surprisingly, other bloggers all over the world. You’re Not The Only One will be a collection of submissions from blogkeepers ... More About: Life , Blog
So long Camden Market
2008-02-10 04:42:00 The cynic in me can’t help but think that the recent fire will conveniently pave the way for a total redevelopment of the existing market as a whole. More About: Market , Long , Camden
The price of love
2008-02-07 12:09:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/713949 2.stm More About: Love , Price
With a kiss, with a sword
2008-02-07 04:14:00 I saw you from the bus. You mouthed something - could have been anything. It looked like three words, but I pretended it was four, five maybe. Even two. I pretended I couldn’t see through the years of unwashed dirt, clumsy finger marks and breath smeared across the glass. I watched instead the city kick ... More About: Kiss , Sword
Oh My Gods?
2008-02-04 02:14:00 Now here is one thing I will certainly be watching at the cinema. The original series has also finally be scheduled for release in English on DVD this year. If you still don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, then watch the video below. To a certain generation: if you haven’t watched this since ... More About: Gods
How not to get a job
2008-01-25 02:04:00 Sign on, as usual. Have fortnightly banter with my friend there. I call her The Phantom Menace. Tell her about my impending… Interview - a nice place with red telephone boxes everywhere. Ballsed it up by letting slip how desperate for cash I am. I am, yes. He slips into second, stumbles into third. He waits weeks ...
A L Kennedy wins Book of The Year
2008-01-23 01:01:00 A L Kennedy has just been announced as the winner of Costa’s Book of the Year award. In my conceited and inconsequential opinion, it’s an award well deserved. I first encountered her work on my Modern Fiction course at university, where she was also a guest lecturer in the Honours year Creative Writing module. Original ... More About: Wins
Vanity Press
2008-01-22 13:58:00 Maybe if I stare at this for long enough, I’ll see a Guardian article on dispossessed rising novelists or an ‘About the Author’ blurb on the inside sleeve of a Random House bestseller, instead of an unemployed layabout with half-snacked on delusions of grandeur. More About: Press , Vanity
No place for a love that never died
2008-01-17 13:12:00 We move in silence. I whistle along to the tune in my mind like the breeze over granite-coloured water - the sea air washing through my head alone, salting each thought. You say nothing. You never do. You just stare at the horizon, dumbfounded. Only you could be dumbfounded by the simplicity of a straight line. ... More About: Love , Place , Died
Why do people think Tom Cruise is mad?
2008-01-16 14:15:00 Watch this rant and find out. More About: Tom Cruise , People , Scientology , Cruise
Redundant Nerd Flotsam
2008-01-15 20:19:00 The recent desktop obsessions of a full time nerd, obsessive and schoolgirl masquerading as a part time novelist… Input over output. Input over output. Input over output… More About: Nerd
Anthropomorphosis
2008-01-14 17:27:00 Today is the first Down Day of the New Year. To celebrate this, at precisely 3:41pm today in the past, a man will be standing in Leicester Square, dressed in a business man costume and smoking a cigarette. He’ll be watching the pigeons pecking and scuffling amongst the scraps underfoot. He’ll be looking, empty-eyed at the near-faceless ...
For the dawn
2008-01-06 18:45:00 The writer no longer burns. He cools himself with lukewarm instant coffee, eats cheap chocolate and doesn’t cut his hair. He reads Vonnegut, bus tickets and old journal entries alike, the latter filled with the ash of long-cooled embers. Still not yet a Random House novelist nor a Faber poet. No Boy Nextdoor in the bed beside ... More About: Dawn
Force restart
2007-12-17 12:43:00 >_ Crash. Too full of crap. Too many problems. Too much running (at any one time). It just doesn’t work anymore. This is a permanent fatal error? Type 0. Type more. Backup (selectively). Uninstall. Empty the trash with nostalgia. Those silly attachments: those unread files, unopened folders. “That’s made some space.” All that space - ... More About: Force , Restart
Major regression in P minor
2007-12-12 02:27:00 I can’t think of a metaphor for finding old albums you used to listen to as a teenager. There must be one. Time travel, maybe. No, that’s not a metaphor. That’s what they do. Old teenage albums - dog-eared cardboard CD covers and sticky coffee-ringed plastic cases - they’re metaphors in themselves. It’s a Fire - ... More About: Major , Regression , Minor
Stables Market. Gone.
2007-12-07 02:54:00 They certainly didn’t waste any time. Having only seen it today I’ve no idea when it began. “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!” Retro World is gone. The arch the surplus army store squatted in has been demolished. Those insane little stalls, deep within the catacombs that sold everything ... More About: Market
A Note from Patrick Wolf
2007-11-30 16:16:00 Regular readers might have detected a slight fondness for a young musician named Patrick on this blog in the past. Now I’m not a groupie, honest. Nor am I an obsessive. Not really. I’m just someone who loves his music, marvels at his brain, and was happy enough to meet him earlier this year after ... More About: Note , Patrick Wolf , Wolf
How to Get Published, for Dummies
2007-11-27 04:43:00 Dear Benji, Thank you for submitting “This is the majesty of Dunstable.” Your poetry is now being reviewed by our editorial staff for acceptance into the International Library of Poetry and Poetry.com’s Open Amateur Poetry Contest, as well as the Poets Choice: Rate My Poem Contest. We will send you a follow-up email upon acceptance to our various contests. This process ... More About: Dummies , Published
Portraits
2007-11-24 03:13:00 The box. The box is a metaphor in itself. It doesn’t exist in any tangible sense, but oh, what a metaphor. What a cliché. Open the cliché and BANG. There it is. The past preserved - buried, successfully forgotten about. Hermetically sealed scents and sounds of years ago, an album of feelings locked away because they ... More About: Portraits , TRAI
Triskaidekaphobia
2007-11-18 13:41:00 He felt the indifference surrounding him - the hard seat of the pew, the flagstone’s chill leeching into his heels and toes. He no longer looked to the statues above, no longer watched the unattended altar and wondered. He simply stared on at whatever his eyes encountered, no longer even asking for answers, no longer ... More About: Writing , Phobia
The music of the spheres
2007-11-16 16:20:00 Everyone’s in their own bubble, their own world within the void. Each of us, in our own polished steel sphere, all float aimlessly about the cosmos, without steering, without gravity. Without control. The closest we truly get to one another is when we bump, just briefly, but always moving on our own path, sometimes parallel ... More About: Music , The Music , Music of the Spheres , Spheres , Eres
To Vancanada, and The Lust for Vellum
2007-11-10 21:01:00 I bring my own order to chaos. Never underestimate the motivational power of an ordered, tidy room. Dig doggedly enough through the detritus of mundane living and you find something made of silver - a talisman shining old-fashioned smiles from beneath the receipts and pennies. Beauty within the dirt. Buried treasure. Follow the map back to ... More About: Lust
Post Halloween Blues
2007-11-10 15:26:00 Hallo. I’m Maureen, the mildly despondent pumpkin. I have seasonal affective disorder. Have pity on me. More About: Blues , Post , Halloween , Allo
Star Trek XI: Anorak Anarchy
2007-11-09 14:41:00 After the gratuitously unnecessary (and now increasingly disputed) redesign of the Enterprise (it looks too predatory - too sleek and angular, unshockingly more like a warship rather than an explorer, though a lot of fans are now claiming this is not the official redesign) the latest indication that the producers are continuing Enterprise’s trend of paying absolutely zero attention to the show’s existing continuity has come in the form of Winona Ryder, cast as a younger version of Spock’s Vulcan mother. What an otherwise lovely idea. Unfortunately however, Spock didn’t have a Vulcan mother. He was half human, on his mother’s side. Like the Eighth Doctor, apparently. Nobs in space. I realise that a blog post about Star Trek can send most readers away in embarrassed droves, like knocking on the wrong door and finding yourself in an Incontinence Anonymous meeting. It’s just I really used to love this show as a kid. The cringingly reflex idea of a St... More About: Anarchy
Any Question Answered
More articles from this author:2007-11-08 11:58:00 PD: What’s Patrick Wolf’s middle name? [1 minute later] AQA: Patrick Wolf was born Patrick Apps on 30th June 1983 at St Thomas’ Hospital. He is a singer-songwriter from South London. He has no middle name. Cue arguing between the gays, BL insisting that he does indeed have a middle name, and that it is *****. PD ultimately texts back: PD: Is Patrick Wolf’s middle name *****? [wait 10 minutes for a reply] AQA: No, Patrick Wolf’s middle name is not *****; he does not have a middle name. There are no people living in the UK called Patrick ***** Wolf either. At that point we though it best to just leave it. It wasn’t worth paying another pound just to upset someone. More About: Question 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
