Friday, 27 June, 2025

Category: words

Meanings, thoughts about how words are used. Odd observations and thoughts.


Today was a very kinetic episode — as usual packed with more than most would be able to get into six pages. Ellis has the use of comics and their panels down to a fine art as far as conveying Read more…


The best ideas tend to be the simple ones — high concept is fine but has to be cooked with as much delicacy and precision as a souffle. This story takes a simple premise — a person who has a Read more…


Please click the above link to go and read this wonderful new fanzine that a group of my friends have out together. There is a mix of poetry, prose and other reading material that will hook you and keep you Read more…


Vonnegut uses the perfect framing device for this novel wherein a timequake bumps everyone back in time ten years to run through that whole decade of their lives again. He starts off by leading us in by the nose with Read more…


It\’s interesting, but from the title of the book and from the foreword by James Grauerholz I was led to expect something that was perhaps going to be more of an intimate, traditional style diary. As Burroughs states at one Read more…


I wasn\’t sure what to expect from this book which may be a stupid thing to say given how much I have read Mr Ellis, both in the form of his graphic novels and the regular missives from his website. Read more…


mooncalf by nicole isabella please check out this great poem (by clicking the above link) by my friend nicole which has been accepted by gloom cupboard — this cool zine that comes in both print and online editions. i always Read more…


I think one of the things that I am enjoying most about the characters of the Freakangels is how we are allowed to see the way the main protagonists have been damaged by whatever event has taken place in the Read more…


it\’s odd, when i first started writing under the skull cull logo it seems that the search engine terms that dragged people to this page were somewhat weirder. perhaps the more content you get the better quality of surfer gets Read more…


Two friends have this great collaborative website set up with some off the wall writing that is bound to draw you in and hook you — go and check it out and you won\’t be disappointed. Click the image above Read more…