NaNoWriMo is a great idea. It’s obvious to me that the daily discipline of sitting down and writing words with a deadline works: it’s certainly been how my modest past works have been produced. And from the experience of writing those worthless volumes I know I can write 1700 words a day and much more. […]
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Pulp. I just love Pulp and one song will come to that desert island when I’m famous enough and I think it’s probably gonna be this one. Oh Jarvis. Where would I be now? Where would I be now, if we’d never never met? Would I be blogging this song somewhere else instead? And I’m
After the great song from REM, that I listened to way too much in 1993: Part of my ongoing homage to Graphjam and Indexed.
You can judge a man by the company he keeps. So what is Raymond Blanc, distinguished chef and successful businessman, doing in The Restaurant with the grating and graceless Sarah Willingham? I have previous with Willingham. It dates back a few years to the time she became Managing Director of the once great South London
Sarah Willingham: J’accuse. Read More »
Spotted in Brighton this weekend, it’s a delight to see that the Evening Argus is the first for news. One can only imagine it was a slow news day? And in other news, my namesake, former Seagulls player and Hartlepool FC boss, Danny Wilson says his team should have beaten the Albion. Glad they didn’t
King Alfred is Dead* Read More »
I’m totally on edge. I can’t concentrate on anything. I’ve been pacing the floor. I can’t eat. I’m going to be up all night watching results from the presidential election in the US. Does this make me weird? Probably. But as some people love football or F1, I love elections. And this is the best
It’s the damn waiting… Read More »
(I’ll be popping a few more of my homages to GraphJam and Indexed up in the next few weeks. Keep ’em peeled.)
‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ Venn Read More »
Waitrose on Western Road. The checkout lady asks me if I’ll need some bags. I ask for two. The woman in the queue behind me, the sort of forty-something social worker type who puts the ‘right on’ into Brighton tuts. She then chides me for not bringing reusable bags: ‘we all need to make small
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Sonnet by a broken-hearted geek Shall I compare thee to a MacBook Air? No. Thou art confusing and much thicker. Ctrl. Alt. Delete: You crashed our affair. I found out why by looking on Flickr. And now you’re running Boyfriend 2.0, Ignoring all my pokes and pings and tweets, I know your outward solid state
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Last week I became 31… here’s are 31 things I have learnt in the last 12 months: 1) Online scrabble is great. But time-consuming. 2) Very few people know what an Oxford Comma is. Let alone give a fuck. 3) I was wrong about Catherine Tate. She was a superb Doctor Who companion. 4) Unlike
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On Saturday night I saw Vampire Weekend for the last time. They were as entertainingly dazzling as they have ever been but my giddy schoolgirl obsession has to stop. I’ve seen them live six times this year. They’re undoubtedly my ‘band of the year 2008’. But it’s just different now. Not as innocently exciting as
Vampire Weekend: the end of the affair. Read More »
Thirty-one today. Cripes. At thirty-one Jimi Hendrix had been dead for four years. Jesus had two more but had hardly begun. Must pull my finger out. Mine’s a pint though. Cheers! Looking at the brightside. ;o)
On my 31st Birthday in 31 Words. Read More »
Here are some links to things I’ve been enjoying online recently: Politics I’m totally glued to the US Presidential Election. And I get my daily dose of polls from http://electoral-vote.com/. I’m really grateful to Jesper for posting this link about the Obama 08 campaign logo. It’s an amazing piece of work and this post deconstructs
Dan Wilson Links…* Read More »