No Blog Today
No blog today: Stealing the structure of Herman Hermit’s No Milk Today from 1966 and turning it into a sorry excuse for a blog post.
Preptober for NaNoWriMo 2023
I’ve decided to take part in NaNoWriMo this November. In preparation (Preptober) I’m setting myself up for success – see how!
Greta with a chainsaw, Cassandra at the flea market
Having the story of Cassandra and Apollo explained to me by a young man while a little girl in Greta plaits plays with a toy chainsaw.
From Headstones through Time, These Days
A round-up of my reading this third quarter of 2023, from Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones to Lucy Caldwell’s These Days.
Opening to Speech and Snow
Opening up to participating in an open call for performance poetry and an art photography exhibition at the Gothenburg English Studio Theatre.
Is YouTube Timely or Evergreen?
Is YouTube an evergreen social media platform? There is some reason to think it is … or at least that is more longterm than ephemeral.
You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm
You are you and that’s OK, says the graffiti. Pictures from August’s visit to Stockholm for SWF23 – but they’re take outside the conference.
Stephen King and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival
The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…
Property pleasure, property porn
My current pleasure is viewing YouTube films presenting property for sale in different parts of Europe, and dreaming myself into the films.
It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot
X marks the spot where Elon Musk stabbed the Twitter bluebird, which acts here as a metaphor for the destruction of our world by big money.