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Nanowrimo. (Ends.)

Nanowrimo. (Ends.)

NanoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, ended on Sunday at midnigh with the arrival of December. It would be better called WoNaWriMo (wo = world) but it's been a worthwhile endeavour. I've fallen well short of the 50k target and don't have an accurate final count owing to handwriting most of my ... Read more »
You're the Top

You’re the Top

Very much the "Anything Goes" version of the Cole Porter classic. Rather than any of the rude ones where, well, anything ... Read more »
The Great Twatsby

The Great Twatsby

I really love freshly laundered shirts. So much so, being a web internetist wankr, I took a pic of mine only recently washed and ironed. And being even more pretentious I immediately thought of The Great Gatsby. 'They're such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick ... Read more »
How to use a toilet.

How to use a toilet.

Just in case you didn't know, it being 2008 and all that, here's what to do if you've been to the lav and have no idea what to do with that handle by the pan. Thank goodness all toilet goers on the City Thameslink will never be confused ... Read more »
Today's motivational spur...

Today’s motivational spur…

This morning I learnt that a school chum has published a novel. Not a close friend or anything but being a curious kind of person I popped over to Amazon buy it: Who is Charlie Conti? by Claus von Bohlen. And while I was there I tought, "well, I'd better get Richard Mason's new book too." Richard's ... Read more »
Venn you're in love with a beautiful woman...

Venn you’re in love with a beautiful woman…

Blame my mum for the fact I know this song. She had a Dr Hook tape and I think it got played quite a lot when I was wee. Well, blame my mum and Radio 2. Radio 2 still plays their tape. So, here's my homage to that great song 'When you're in love with a beautiful woman'. Responsibility for the ... Read more »
NaNoWriMo: the story so far...

NaNoWriMo: the story so far…

NaNoWriMo is a great idea. It's obvious to me that the daily discipline of sitting down and writing words with a deadline works: it's certainly been how my modest past works have been produced. And from the experience of writing those worthless volumes I know I can write 1700 words a day and much ... Read more »
Something Changed

Something Changed

Pulp. I just love Pulp and one song will come to that desert island when I'm famous enough and I think it's probably gonna be this one. Oh Jarvis. Where would I be now? Where would I be now, if we'd never never met? Would I be blogging this song somewhere else instead? And I'm blogging it not ... Read more »
Nightswimming

Nightswimming

After the great song from REM, that I listened to way too much in 1993: Part of my ongoing homage to Graphjam and ... Read more »
Sarah Willingham: J'accuse.

Sarah Willingham: J’accuse.

You can judge a man by the company he keeps. So what is Raymond Blanc, distinguished chef and successful businessman, doing in The Restaurant with the grating and graceless Sarah Willingham? I have previous with Willingham. It dates back a few years to the time she became Managing Director ... Read more »
King Alfred is Dead*

King Alfred is Dead*

Spotted in Brighton this weekend, it's a delight to see that the Evening Argus is the first for news. One can only imagine it was a slow news day? And in other news, my namesake, former Seagulls player and Hartlepool FC boss, Danny Wilson says his team should have beaten the Albion. Glad ... Read more »
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?

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It's the damn waiting...

It’s the damn waiting…

I'm totally on edge. I can't concentrate on anything. I've been pacing the floor. I can't eat. I'm going to be up all night watching results from the presidential election in the US. Does this make me weird? Probably. But as some people love football or F1, I love elections. And this is the ... Read more »
'Irish Blood, English Heart' Venn

‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ Venn

(I'll be popping a few more of my homages to GraphJam and Indexed up in the next few weeks. Keep 'em ... Read more »