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A little more about the story we tell
I mentioned it when we started up but our podcast, Crudely Drawn Swords has been running for a couple of years now and on Thursday I posted our fiftieth episode. That is something in the region of 45 hours of collaborative improvised storytelling on our part and it has made me think a lot about the genre we are part of. Using a game as a way of ( Read more... ) -
A small aside
A long time ago I used to post videos from rides I did with Zorro out around the place. It was pretty fun but after he retired I haven't really got back into it with Iris. Sari has though and that has inspired me to get back and start taking some video when we go out together, so if you want some of those old-school over-the-ears-cam adventures in ( Read more... ) -
The ruinous marriage of hubris, prejudice and treachery
I am not tremendously optimistic about tomorrow's election. And by "not tremendously optimistic" I mean that I am deeply pessimistic. In fact the only way I can see it going is the turkeys voting en-masse not just for Christmas but for some kind of special extra-Christmas where every family has to eat three turkeys ( Read more... ) -
Hurrying to slow down
We're back from a long trek across the country to ride in a clinic with legendary horseman Joe Wolter and it was about as good as one could possibly hope for.
I'm not going to go into a lot of detail on it right now, I'm sure Sari will have more to say later and these days a full write-up is more likely to go into the magazine ( we actually have ( Read more... ) -
Another adventure
Because, as one friend observed on Facebook, we don't like having free time Sari and I are now magazine proprietors. If you follow herecirm you will be more than clear about this already, but just in case you missed it, you can now subscribe to Horsemanship Magazine as produced by us ( Read more... ) -
The wild will always be waiting
A few weeks ago I posted about my adventures in music and how much a part of my life it has been.
We've finally got the tracks through and they're sounding pretty great- you can listen to them here and they will be appearing on all the usual digital services in the next few days. Please do give them a listen, I have never been more proud of any ( Read more... ) -
It wasn't me that you outsmarted
Well our government voted to begin the process of leaving the EU, which I suppose that we knew they would in spite of all the hopes one might have that there was something that could be done to prevent it. I was angry with them all over again. Angry with our main opposition party for not doing their job and opposing anything whatsoever angry with ( Read more... ) -
A simple form of goodbye
When I was sixteen, four of us went around to our friend's house. He had a drum kit and we had guitars and a keyboard, so we shut ourselves in his room and started playing together. As far as I can remember we mostly played Enter Sandman by Metallica, maybe a Levellers song and we made up a riff of our own. It was, I daresay, somewhere close to the ( Read more... ) -
Where we find ourselves.
I've been thinking a lot about politics over the last six months, as you might imagine. My political leanings are towards thinking that other people are mostly trying to do their best and that if you treat them fairly then the world could be pretty good but apparently that goes against the prevailing worldview right now ( Read more... )
