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
- Washing machines that get slightly unbalanced because of a towel or something and cause a big stupid scene about it – first against the wall 41 minutes ago
- RT @eileencurtright: Maybe all that's wrong with your novel is that nobody falls without warning into a pit 1 day ago
- A totally bizarre and brilliant long read about Gef the talking mongoose. Settle in lrb.co.uk/v39/n15/bee-wi… 2 days ago
- IDEA: the Tour de Thanks. Winner is the one who says ‘thanks’ the most over a 23-day period without collapsing from exhaustion at any stage 3 days ago
- This is the book cover of the whole 2000s twitter.com/FergusVUP/stat… 3 days ago
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Category Archives: Happiness or not
Balcony
‘You need to think, and thinking well is the hardest thing in the world to do.’ —Vivian Gornick I was sitting on a balcony above a sea of heads, close to the edge, looking down on a lit stage. … Continue reading
Bicycle diary
The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as … Continue reading
The FEED
Sometimes everything seems so oh, I don’t know. – Joe Brainard Twitter is no place for a human being. – @themanwhofell I joined Twitter about four years ago. I don’t remember why. It might have been because I had something … Continue reading
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Keep human!
Take it easy, but take it. – Woody Guthrie Some things from the week. Armoured and alarmed my CV. Looked for a job. Made some “calls”. Disarmed my CV. Fell over onto some stupid rocks, twisted my ankle. Thought about the … Continue reading
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Talk first to the dog
If you cross paths with someone walking a dog, do you talk first to the person or the dog? Matthew Yeager, A Jar of Balloons or The Uncooked Rice Dogs chasing my car in the desert by John Divola 1. … Continue reading
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London’s hair is burning
Hair is dead cells. When it’s on you, we all want to touch it, but as soon as it’s off you, in your bed or your shower, it’s suddenly, oooh, horrible. So hair’s a really weird thing. But I think … Continue reading
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The orange cone
Savage Eyes On Wednesday after work I got on my bike and rode home. At an intersection on Brixton Road I pulled up behind a big red bus. It was dark, and I could see parts of my reflection in … Continue reading
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