Blogroll
- A book you might like This is a book you or someone you know might like.
- Bat, Bean, Beam Everyone links to Giovanni Tiso’s blog but I don’t care. It’s too good.
- Elliot Scribblings Londoner Elliot Elam sketches people on public transport.
- Five Dials Five Dials is free online magazine edited by Craig Taylor, who seems to be a genius. In Five Dials no. 32 you can read a piece I wrote about Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace.
- I Like Boring Things Some words that James Ward has written about different things. He is also in charge of the Stationery Club, The London Twirls Project, and the Boring Conference.
- Isinglass Martin Edmond’s wonderful blog.
- Let Me Be Frank Sarah Laing’s compulsively readable cartoony blog on reading, writing, parenting, angsting.
- Oliver Burkeman My favourite writer on self-help. He really hates “The Secret”.
- The Animalarium This blog gladdens the heart. Celebrates animals (worldly and otherworldly) in illustration and design.
- The London Review of Breakfasts Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him. (On the LRB, I have reviewed as Egg Miliband.)
- The Red Room This is (poet and great brain) Sarah-Jane Barnett’s fantastic blog on NZ poetry.
- The Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- These Rough Notes I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I run this project where you can listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- I’ve landed and have immediately broken out into wicked hives all over my body! I just wanted people to know that. 6 hours ago
- Helpful reminder: Don’t buy my book :)) twitter.com/jelsamina/stat… 6 hours ago
- I’ve been thru a bunch of security areas today and, man alive, they really get right up in there nowadays, huh 9 hours ago
- Thanks everyone. I get it twitter.com/lynnw192/statu… 9 hours ago
- Just saw a tree full of more plastic bags than leaves, like in a Leunig drawing: apt as a political statement tho maybe a little obvious, A- 20 hours ago
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Category Archives: Clothes
The Tri-Suit
Today I bought a tri-suit. A tri-suit is a versatile garment that you can wear to swim, bike, and run without having to get changed in between. To make these seamless transitions possible, the tri-suit has to be sleek and all-encasing. That makes it … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, books, Clothes, Uncategorized
Tagged Frog and Toad, tri-suit, triathlon
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How not to ride a bike
1974 poster by Jerzy Flisak for When the Legends Die via 50Watt Hello, the stylish people on vintage bicycles, wafting through red lights like pollen on the breeze. I’ve see your red lipstick. Your tweed. Your buttons. Your bicycles with permed … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Clothes, London
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Nightrider pants (three hazy clothing-related anecdotes)
There came Ezra, dressed To the nines in his velvet Jacket, pants with equestrian Seat, his cowboy hat, swinging His silver-headed cane as he Made for San Ambrogio, women Applauding him from their Windows. It was one of the Sights of … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Uncategorized
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