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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Friends. To The End.
‘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."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 moreGuest 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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Of Then vs Now
There’s a lot of memes nowadays about the blithe serenity and sanity of the 90s/early 2000s and I get it, totally. The world before the social media demon burst forth was, looking back, a more certain place. A place we wished we’d saved as a checkpoint so we could have a crack at things again […]
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Cripes, there’s an image to appear in my FB memories. Sat in Room 3 of Premier Inn Leicester North West during lockdown and editing a manuscript of Pennyblade to the tune of both my editor and agent. A weird time, a crossroads, full of fear and excitement: disease stalked the land and I was caretaker […]
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My Freemasonry Spree!
So I snooped about the Freemason’s Hall my job-hunting course is taking place in during lunch break. Photos of His Majesty everywhere and lots of homemade heraldry; it’s basically Dungeons & Dragons for businessmen desperate to be part of the Establishment. I got discovered by one of the staff who told me I couldn’t venture […]
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