Crashed The Invite
Facebook saw that post I did about David Cronenberg’s Crash on here and it’s invited me to ‘create an event’. The mind boggles…
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What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)
‘Crash’ is quite a different movie in 2024. I hadn’t expected that when I sat down to watch it again. Like the ‘unfilmable’ book it’s based on, David Cronenberg’s movie caused outrage from both the political right and left. I always think art has hit pay dirt whenever that happens, drilled down to something deep. […]
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‘She understood me and I her’ my mum texted me after her oldest pal passed away recently and that line really hit me. I brace myself for losing old friends because it would be less like losing a limb and more an entire wing of your mental library. All those jokes and memories and references […]
Read more "Friends. To The End."Not All Kids Want to Grow Up To Be Astronauts
Back in the eighties me and my brother awoke to a hurricane that had hit Britain. We’d never seen the like and, this being the eighties, we just assumed nuclear war was occurring. I was terrified and then I was weirdly elated. I realised I had survived the nuclear exchange and now I would grow […]
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The Stevens Residence
Currently owned by Edward Norton, the Stevens House (1968) began as an impossible demand: a five bedroom luxury house on a 90’ by 30’ plot with no solid walls on two sides so that the ocean and mountains could be viewed. Six architects turned it down and then John Lautner- to whom crazy challenges were […]
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Came to the writers group tonight to find my friend Daniel Ribot had asked my fave author Ellen Kushner if she’d write me a postcard, given work had stopped me from going to Worldcon. She was more than happy too! It’s really made me week so it has. 😊
Read more "Well This Cheered Me Up…"THIS SATURDAY I ROCK MY HOMETOWN OF SYSTON! It’s a beer and literature festival in a pub!2pm-3pm this Saturday, Pharmacies Arms, Syston. A reading and a Q&A and a couple pints!
Read moreBoy that’s an olde path!
A thought came to me just earlier (see photo above). There’s paths and trails in forests right? Made by people wandering through but also by animals. So before people were around there must have been forest paths created by animals. So how old are some forest trails on planet Earth? Were they first trodden out […]
Read more "Boy that’s an olde path!"Guest Post: ‘Art And Worthlessness’ by Marlon Brando
Oh, it’s all worthless, really. Life is committing fully to things and to people that you know will not repay you with any of the passion or respect you hope to receive. This is what I call Zen Nihilism, and you go right on doing it. There is no other way. You continue to work […]
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J.L. Worrad 