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Gimpo's M25 25-Hour Spin
Once a year, at the weekend closest to the Spring Equinox, Gimpo - best known to KLF watchers as the man who filmed the money burning - drives around the M25 for 25 hours. His aim is to do this for 25...
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Brandy In The Basement
Jason Arnopp is a lovely, charming man, so it is sometimes difficult to understand where the malignant evil in his writing comes from.You may know Jason from his Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures or...
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The First Church on the Moon - out now
Today is my 42nd birthday. To celebrate I'm putting out a The First Church on the Moon, a Douglas Adams-esque novel and the sort-of sequel to The Brandy of the Damned, as a freebie.You can get the...
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EPIC UPDATE - Plate Spinning 101
There's so much going on that I'm starting to lose track with what's been announced and what hasn't. Hence this EPIC UPDATE to put that right - more for my benefit than for yours, I suspect.1. The...
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Go Home @klfbook, You're Drunk
A relationship with a book is very one-sided. You learn from it, it does not learn from you. A book can alter your brain if it so wishes, but you can do nothing to the book. Except throw it at a wall....
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Youth's early Killing Joke-era "acid flipout"
Writing The KLF was in part an attempt to scratch an itch created by an aborted attempt to write a book about Killing Joke. There's a lot of cross-over between those two stories, and many of the...
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The Daily Mail is a Drug
The reason for the Daily Mail's continued growth is simple. For every story it runs it asks itself, "How can I present this story in manner that will generate a feeling of disgust in the reader?" The...
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Jimmy Cauty's tiny police state
Yesterday I went to launch of James Cauty's Aftermath Dislocation Principle, a square mile of post-apocalyptic landscape shrunk down to 1:87 scale. The model itself is huge - 448 square feet - but the...
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Ten Reasons For Burning Money
Burning money is an action where intent is everything.I've already written at length about Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond burning a million pounds, but what other reasons are there for lighting up the...
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Moon Bibles
This story appeared in The Times earlier in the week (many thanks to Steve Moore for sending me the clipping).Microfilm moon bibles! What a wonderful snapshot of that brief moment in history when we...
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Talking RAW with Alan Moore
Yesterday me and @DaisyEris Campbell drove up to Northampton to visit Alan Moore, the Greatest Living Englishman, to talk about Robert Anton Wilson. We filmed the interview and we'll show it in...
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Transformation and Jamie Reid
Yesterday I was looking at this page from the 6 February 1977 edition of the Sunday People:The reason it's framed is because it's the actual page which was the source material Jamie Reid photocopied in...
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Tour Dates
Well, it's a bunch of talks over the next six months - I can pretend that's a tour, can't I? A man can dream.A couple of these are still a little vague, but I'll update as the fog lifts.SUNDAY APRIL...
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Steve Moore (1949 - 2014)
Steve Moore (centre) at the Brinklow Crescent burial mound. Photo by Mark PilkingtonWhen someone dies there is a temptation to write an obituary. If I'd written an obituary for the comic writer,...
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Historia Discordia - The Origins of the Discordian Society
Adam Gorightly's new book is hardcore. The most battle-hardened historian would blanch at writing a history of Discordian Society.As you can imagine with a society whose major contribution to world...
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Our Pet Queen
There's a new book from me that is being published on Monday. Our Pet Queen is an ebook short I wrote for Random House Canada about the monarchy. Yeah, you weren't expecting that, were you? Here's the...
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Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
I've written a book called 2000 TC: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On.The text was finished on Friday and look, here it is already. It's not for sale, though, it's a private edition of 111...
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Cosmic Trigger Festival Talk
It's too early to say exactly what detonated at the Cosmic Trigger play and festival in Liverpool this weekend, save to say that this particular firework was not a dud and much will be written about...
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2015 Tour
Spring is definitely here now, so it is time to emerge from hibernation and go out and face people.Here's the public talks I've got lined up for this year, so far...Thurs 16th April - LondonA Campfire...
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine algorithmically compressed into 400 words
My new book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century is finally loose in the UK - being sold in shops, downloaded as ebooks onto Kindles and as audiobooks onto phones. It...
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Adventures on the Edge of Culture
We've got something a bit special planned for this years Brighton Fringe. The May 12th Odditorium, called Adventures on the Edge of Culture, is an evening of the following... A talk from me called...
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For Robert Anton Wilson's Birthday – some words on Operation Mindfix
Today is the birthday of the late great American agnostic Robert Anton Wilson.His books (and in particular, theIlluminatus!trilogy he co-wrote with Robert Shea) depict a bewildering world of...
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Summer 2017 talks and appearances
Summer is (just about) with us and my new book Watling Street is getting ready to launch... but more on that soon. Now it's time to leave the house and pop up in strange places to talk about that book...
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Watling Street - Book and podcast launch
I am a proud parent limping out of a delivery room with uncountable stitches and a head full of endorphins - my new book has entered the world!Her name is Watling Street and you'll find her at your...
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This website is being abandoned - I've moved
This website is being shuttered up - but the party continues over at johnhiggs.com, so come join us over there.This blogger site will be left as is for now, and possibly taken down in due course. Or...
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