The Lives of Mariette |
It's summer, more or less, so I went for a walk in the country with a dog that I know.Feeling adventurous, we took a short cut off the main road down a public footpath and into a field. This, you see...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:00 GMT |
The Mythical First Novel - finally online!! |
FIRST, NEWS: the first few chapters of my first novel, THE BOREDOMS OF BLUETTS PORTH is up and running on Authonomy.com. http://authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=4772Witness the cracking up of a you...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:53:00 GMT |
Fear & Loathing in DFS |
Christmas is coming.For most of the silly season I intend to guzzle PORT and feast angrily on DRY ROASTED PEANUTS, while that flashing box in the corner laps away at the periphery of my sanity.But MOR...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:59:00 GMT |
Teeth |
I went to visit my father a few days ago... yes my father's still alive, you facetious little shit; he is in his 90s, bewildered, withered and hateful. He barely speaks English. He was born in Croyd...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:35:00 GMT |
May I? |
Hastie is coming round to summer, now the hayfever's worn off. Cocktail peach evenings and distant humming. Heat stultifies sound. Footsteps absorbed in airwaves. Gravity press...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:57:00 GMT |
Pick up a Pequin |
I've been made Pleased by the Pequin magazine. They publish every story alongside a haunting photograph. So here's one of mine...Ivory TowersI really must do some more, but life is in full...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:17:00 GMT |
George Melly |
It seems that as the world moves ever forward into a single, eternal MacDonald's advert, not a day goes by without seeing one of the Old Guard fall. Those people who do not spend their time...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:34:00 GMT |
Demographic |
A thought, preying on my mind.
Reading the press, scouring the internet, watching the damned infernal TV these days, one rarely escapes lightly without hearing the use of the word 'DEMOGRAPHIC'. ...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:02:00 GMT |
Remnants of a Life |
I haven't written since July for God's sake. News is generally that I'm still alive, just about. Nothing that another three years of intense boozing can't cure.
I've been busy visit...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:00 GMT |
The British Summer |
God spare me from the British summer.
Lurid music adrift from Skodas,
A pink man strained, without his shirt,
Spouting filth and spilling beer.
The flatulent apes don't want me to sleep
Please spare m...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:43:00 GMT |
