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  • Update: Local Guide

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    So I just saw a guy wheeling a shopping trolley with an office chair in it, all the way down my street. And I’m thinking: why’s he need the trolley? The chair has wheels. Just push the chair. I’m telling you, shopping trolleys are the new mode of inner city transport. The only thing I’d…

  • Writing and stalking

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    Ok, so I was feeling a little defensive about television this week, but I was STILL managing to rib so-called reality TV, boo, hiss. Television, to sum up my case, can provide the keen viewer with a heck of a lot of valuable story. Television — I may not have said out loud, though I…

  • Make My Bed In Hell

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    There is something wrong with this picture Yes, that’s correct, the archer on the cover of The Naked Archer isn’t actually naked. http://community.middlebury.edu/~mobrien/covers/ With thanks to Cat Sparks for the link. — P.S. There are just SO MANY possible comments I could’ve made I wasn’t sure where to begin.

  • Update #1: The Bum

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    So someone has given the bum across the road in front of the church a Gameboy. He sat there all morning, pressing Gameboy buttons. I mean, I don’t know if the thing has batteries, but it’s good he has a hobby. Being homeless has got to suck.

  • One ‘yay’ and two references to evil

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    Season 4 of Oz turned up in the mail, complete with free bags of Canadian air. *breathes* Ahhhhhhh….. brrrr! Don’t you love when they package things in air? I can’t wait until they start packing things in soil. It will be such a boon for all those Canadian vampires waiting to get out & see…

  • Drug of a nation, thanks — hold the fries.

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    Everybody’s talking ’bout tv. I love TV. I love narrative and voice and character and journey, and for these reasons, I love TV. If you’re looking for excellent writing on screen, of course there’s wonderful examples in the cinema. But there’s even more numerous examples of good writing on TV. Instantly, I know, some people…

  • And the hits just keep orrrrnnn comin’

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    Coincident to my discussion of the-glasses-I-do-not-need (see: yesterday), my web stats have clocked some people landing on my website as a result of a Google image search for my name. Firstly, I notice you don’t get much in the way of results using that method. I’m cool with that. Secondly, if ANYONE sends me pictures…

  • Forward into the Light

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    So within 10 minutes of being told I needed glasses (well, not so much ‘needed’ as ‘could do with’ or ‘would benefit from’ or ‘useful if you want to prevent that burning, itching sensation, in your eyes, at least’) — (oh, and not so much ‘glasses’ as … well, glasses, really) — within just TEN…

  • More good advice for writers (she said, ironically)

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    So, this evening, instead of cleaning my paintbrushes, I sat down & had a beer. Then I threw the paintbrushes away. This saved me such an incredible amount of time in cleaning that I’m not sure why it wasn’t recommended to me in the first place.

  • Hide in Plain Sight

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    Writing is a funny thing. It’s a performance art where the performance is done in private. It’s a private pursuit that relies to an arguable degree on having a public twin, a persona, if you will, that represents the private world without interfering with it, and grants time enough or space enough or validity, assurance,…