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Matt Rees Interview
Just a quick post to point out an interview I did with Matt Rees, about writing and publishing and the like.You'll find it here.
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Godless Brighton: The Verdict
Evangelical Christians are descending on Brighton. But have they got their work cut out? From the Brighton Argus website:Good luck with that, Reverend Archie Coates!
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Sign Outside an Art Exhibition:
(from the Bridget Riley exhibition at the Walker in Liverpool)
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In Liverpool a couple of weeks ago a friend took me to see this amazing thing:This is Turning The Place Over by Richard Wilson, and it's fantastic. What makes it even better is that it genuinely is...
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The Trickster and Julian Assange
Tricksters usually live in myth, but occasionally they occur in real life. Timothy Leary was probably the best example of a 20th Century Trickster. Now we have a 21st Century candidate for the role -...
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Image From My Daughter
My 10-year-old daughter has been experimenting with photo editing software and has just emailed me the following.Really, I could write an essay about it, but instead I'll just allow you to meet it on...
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Brian Barritt Versus The Grim Reaper
Brian Barritt died this morning at around 6am.He was 76.When I first met Brian, nearly 15 years ago, he showed me the following passage from Tim Leary’s Confessions of a Hope Fiend. This was written in...
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The Soviet Union Won The Space Race
Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space. To celebrate, the BBC has put online an essay that asks ‘What if the Soviet Union had won the Space Race’? It's a nice...
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Brian Barritt Remembered
I'm doing a talk on The Books of Brian Barritt on June 11th, as part of the Brighton Book Festival. For more details, here's the website.I'll have more to say about this soon, no doubt, but it struck...
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Illuminatus! vs Atlas Shrugged
As has been widely noted, the twenty-first century is strange, worrying and makes very little sense. Help is at hand, however, because the late twentieth century produced two huge novels which shed...
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Interactive Fiction
I've been experimenting with interactive fiction. If you're wondering what interactive fiction is like, click here and read my short story First Against The Floor.Actually, that's a terrible title for...
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A Writing Name
What has happened to my poor name? It has been replaced with an unfortunate Scrabble hand. I have adopted an initials-based 'writing name,' but why? Traditionally, writers hide behind their initials if...
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Drowned and Knighted at the Summer Solstice
Last week was the Summer Solstice. I spent the night in the fields around Stonehenge being drowned by persistent rain with occasional freakish cloudbursts for variety. Curled up in a foetus-like...
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Osbornicide: Why Drunk George Osborne has been killed off
The spoof twitter account Drunk George Osborne (@OsborneDrunk) is no more, alas. It's a shame, but its time was up. Spoofing George Osborne is no longer possible, or indeed necessary.As crazy as this...
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Death and The Batman
Yesterday some nomark shot up a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. You know this, of course, people are talking about nothing else. What makes the whole thing so unthinkable is the shooter's lack of...
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Albionist: Paradise Is Your Birthright
The following is an essay I wrote a couple of years ago for an art exhibition entitled Albionist: Paradise Is Your Birthright, which attempted to look at modern Britain through the eyes of William...
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The Brandy of the Damned update
The Brandy of the Damned is now available as a very handsome paperback. It is available from all good bookshops that are called Amazon.It will set you back £8.99 but if you're a member of Goodreads,...
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KLF essay in Darklore Volume 7
Darklore volume 7 is now available, and it's a goody. It contains much that is exquisitely strange and disturbing from writers including Mike Jay, Robert Schoch, Mark Pesce, Blair Mackensie Blake, Cat...
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