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  • Achievements in Literacy

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    chrisbarnes was right: Partially Clips is funny. http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1303&b=1&c=1 In other news, I have signed up for a couple of panels at Conflux2 (Conflux Redux to its friends). I have no idea why I’ve done this. I thought I’d sworn off panels. Curse you, Donna Hanson, for outwitting me by producing a really, really enticing programme.…

  • Good old boys

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    So I saw BUBBA HO-TEP today, the movie based on the Bram Stoker award winning story by Joe R. Lansdale. And if that sentence doesn’t go halfway to explaining this movie, let me also add that it features an aging Elvis & an aging President Kennedy, trapped in a nursing home, being preyed upon by…

  • Why today & not tomorrow?

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    “Suicides have already betrayed the body.” — Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die Today’s subject line was prompted by girliejones in our discussions on the suicide of Hunter S. Thompson. How do you pick a day to die? Not just die. How do you pick a day to inflict irrevocable violence on yourself? How do you…

  • Those crazy writer guys, they so crazy

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    So I caught a couple of minutes of Law & Order: SVU this evening — enough to note that tonight’s murdering ‘psychopath’ (now THERE’S an overused word) was a rejected novelist. How do they know he’s a novelist? Why, when they pay a visit to his psychopathic den, he has wallpapered his apartment with rejection…

  • Half the size, twice the price

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    “The first I learned of the new practice of splitting novels to satisfy chain store strictures was when I read Peter Watts’ introduction to ‘Behemoth: B-Max’, which turns out to have been the first half of the final novel in his ‘Starfish’ trilogy. He says in the introduction to this novel — and later confirmed…

  • Writing and brain injury

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    “Day-to-day tasks like making a cup of tea, cooking and remembering things still cause him problems. But despite this he has discovered a talent for writing.” Well, don’t I feel special.

  • Never understanding

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    But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. — Anne Sexton, Wanting to Die http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?45442B7C000C07050E70 Thankfully, I want most to know ‘why build’. Thief — how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long,…

  • The edge of Hunter S. Thompson

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    “The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” — Hunter S. Thompson RIP

  • Just a general update, really, no big deal

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    So the bum in front of the church across the road seemed fully into his Gameboy this morning, pressing its little buttons like mad. And then I realised, he didn’t _have_ the Gameboy.* In other news, I’m apparently an Angst Writer. Oh, please, bite me (she said, morosely). I’d paste the dooverlacky text in, but…

  • Writing and drilling

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    “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” — Ernest Hemingway Of course Hemingway is an excellent writer. *Of course* he’s an influential writer. Possibly THE most influential writer. I can probably almost recite by heart that…