I remember exactly where I was when I learned of the passing of Kurt Vonnegut — I was in Wisconsin staying on a friend\’s couch into the second month of my travels around the states. I wrote a poem in Read more…
Category: words
Meanings, thoughts about how words are used. Odd observations and thoughts.
a whole day swamped with the efforts of stupid people with unfunny jokes. i never did like the kind of pranks that april fools tend to plump for, and seriously, the guys who push the whole agenda of that dumbass Read more…
Please check out our sister site — it houses some older pieces that were culled from a scattering of poetry and writing blogs and some newer pieces. All of it is worth a read and I would appreciate any comments Read more…
The Gambler is the story of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor in the household of The General and his family. This was paired with Notes From The Underground: both of them being fairly short novels and stylistically similar — both of Read more…
I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like \’If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.\’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of Read more…
As should be the way, with each new character that is introduced a new layer is added to the story, and thanks to the pacing, the subtlety of which is truly starting to emerge after 6 episodes, each of the Read more…
Taken From Chuck\’s Official Site: Posted March 20th, 2008 by Dennis In emailing back and forth with Chuck earlier this week, I asked him what he\’s been up to. I might have been feeling him out for what he\’s been Read more…
I have been meaning for an age to read Dostoevsky and, having a literature degree, am slightly ashamed of myself that it has taken until now. I am of course reading a translation but I have to trust that it Read more…
God, how I miss this magazine. I had to hunt for it — weirdly Suffolk was strangely backwards when it came to stocking anything thought of as vaguely dodgy. How do I know that they thought of it this way? Read more…
I know that as soon as I sit down to write this rant, no matter how many times I look at it there will be a typo that is going to make me look like an arsehole. That aside though, Read more…