I struggle with which side I’m on with these a lot of the time: Consistent, progressive, productive and building upon v.s. formulaic, routine, boring and too slow Spontaneous and fun and joyful v.s. unreliable, immature, naive and distracting Being still, zen, thoughtful and meditative v.s. falling behind, not trying hard enough (< the result of comparison and […]
Words from Edgar Allen Poe’s stories
Words of the day from my teenage reading of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories. Found in some paperwork, now it’s for you! You’re welcome to use these or the idea of such for educational purposes. Gothic themed English language or literature lesson, teachers? Supererogation – the performance of more than duty requires Phrenology – study […]
The optical journalist
The journalistic pyramid resembles t he optician’s reading boa rd. We are visual creatures, aren’t we? Do you read the entire thing or do you stop?
13 movie plots turned into clickbait! You won’t BELIEVE your eyes!!
“Clickbait headlines/taglines are annoying; we should be able to sue them for false advertising. Because every time “You won’t believe what happened next” always seems real fuckin’ believable… “Imagine if movies were turned into clickbait/movie plotlines were written by clickbaiters!” Said the wise Peter Colson on Facebook. And these were born. By Peter Colson and Jessica […]
Indie bookstores vs Amazon; my response to Farhad Manjoo
I don’t agree with this Slate article by Farhad Manjoo: “Don’t support your local bookseller.” He basically uses Richard Russo’s New York Times piece about Amazon’s ‘shocking’ and ‘disgusting’ Price Check smartphone app to catapult a rant on how indie bookstores are “some of the least efficient, least user-friendly, and most mistakenly mythologized local establishments you can […]
One Day by David Nicholls; amazing
Seriously. One Day by David Nicholls got to me. I’ve cried, smiled, felt my heart burst, romantically despaired, love-hated London and questioned the point of my own 26-27 years (especially when I got to that point). It described everything with the bittersweet aptness and post-party despair of free-falling after University. That freedom tainted by that […]
Beer: A poem by George Arnold
(Beer & poetry, a wonderful combination, and a favourite poem that describes my moments of thought, too) Beerby George Arnold. Here, With my beer I sit, While golden moments flit: Alas! They pass Unheeded by: And, as they fly, I, Being dry, Sit, idly sipping here My beer. O, finer […]
Facebook statuses, I write.
‘I’m bored of writing,’ I write, into the accusatorily blinking Facebook status box. I drop the words into it’s post-box slot and release them into the abyss. I semi-pretentiously wonder what to write next, as if Facebook matters, as if it matters if I have quality thought out here. No. Every day it more and […]
B0ring Tweets vs Ricky Gervais; my appreciation, your treat.
Adapted conversation from when I introduced funny guy The Bunnybeater to… @b0ringTweets Versus @RickyGervais Here’s Episode 6. It’s a particularly good one. Episode 7 was a bit of a let down after that, to be honest. B: “I don’t understand.” A: “You don’t understand?” B: “I…I’m starting to be entertained by them, but I’m not […]
The Book Club, Shoreditch
I felt like I was in a hipster film set. Not a set up film set, I mean, in a documentary about hipsters? … as in, it was so real, it felt fake? Just, space, wooden floors, with good looking creative types wearing cardigans and thick-rimmed glasses using their iDevices or playing ping pong (which […]