Starting up diaries on here ( Read more... )

 So, after almost two months of doing nothing of note on the book, I've managed to write three chapters in two days. Between 2 and 3 in the morning usually.
I'm quite convinced these are possibly some of the best things I've ever written.
It would be lovely if that turned out to be true.
One of them made my girlfriend cry.
I am unsure if this is an ( Read more... )

 This week's research/topics of finding outness in order of nothing at all:

The Fianna
Ice Cube
Cold War interrogation techniques
Symptoms of PTSD
The Targum Johnathan
Cults of ancient Carthage
The warding properties of rosemary and rowan
Hard Rock Returns to Prison
Rokia Traore
Revolutionary Suicide
Mouse Guard: Winter 1152
Ahsoka Tano
How to make robots ( Read more... )

Regarding Al Megrahi, I see the opposition to his release falling into two camps.

1) Justice is not being done. To which I guess the answer is: If our society has reached the point where we need to fetishise the incarceration of a dying man to fulfil our need for 'justice', something has gone terribly wrong. The continuation of suffering does not ( Read more... )

 Hello Internet,
I ask you, is there anything better than finding several long lost and obscure tunes faintly clinging to life on an old battered CD-R? Tunes that even the internets will not provide.
No Internet, there is not. That is the answer to that question.

And Joh's coming up at the weekend.
Small mercies, small packages.

The collection of Artist's Books at the Dean is unbelievably impressive. Wrote some mighty fine pieces this week, even if I say so myself, which,I never do. Also, Venus is going in the exhibition, and the gargoyle story is nearly done, just need to get it bound and copyrighted ( Read more... )

 Miro rocks.

Fin.

Unexpected discoveries this week:

Swedish electronica sufficient to make me buy new speakers solely for the pleasure of hearing it.

A plethora of bees.

My Milk Toof.

Inspiration.

In roughly that order.

Dear lord, if I bite my tongue any more this week it's going to drop off.