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Sunday, 13 September 2020

To be honest, I’m too knackered to try to think up some clever-clever ‘isn’t he such a smart cookie’ title, so this will have to do. If you’re really interested, you can regard it as a ‘companion piece’ to my ‘entry’ on art a few weeks ago. If you’re not really interested, what the hell, just read this anyway

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I was getting one with this Hemingway bollocks when I decided, for one reason or another to post it here as my latest blog entry. (Note to f...
Friday, 11 September 2020

I’m disappointed. When you tell a joke, it’s a bit of downer when no one laughs. OK, not a joke you know what you mean

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About 15 months ago, I came across a very useful website called Deadlines for Writers . And that’s exactly what it is: you are provided with...
Saturday, 5 September 2020

When, why, how and where (subs: please check) using a simile is always pretty pointless, rather like driving a red car with a tennis racket or eating a sausage in Latin or (cont. P94)

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No entry here for almost two months (well, seven weeks). Am I losing interest? Well, no, it’s just that pretty much all that’s been occurrin...
Friday, 17 July 2020

What is art? Quick, where's the bloody door!

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My ‘project’ is as interesting as ever — to me, at least — but it is lasting a lot longer than I anticipated. Certainly that has something t...
Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Meet me, the ‘hate criminal’ and ‘transphobic’ to boot. That I am not, never have and never shall be and loathe bigots is neither here nor there.

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As is the odd way of these things, I have — more or less — been accused of a ‘hate crime’. The situation is similar to when I posted a comme...
Saturday, 6 June 2020

‘Teflon Don will go on and on: How could Trump survive November’s election when he’s engulfed in riots, Covid meltdown and high unemployment?’ Well, here’s what one man thinks, and it’s worrying

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While in the US all the peaceful protest and demonstrations of the murder of George Floyd, the riots and looting by some, heavy-handed conta...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Woe is us, woe, woe (and for once I’m a little more serious)

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I’m not a born cassandra and tend to look on the bright side of things. I’m a ‘the glass is half-full’ guy. But for some years past, and ag...