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.
- 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 Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- The VUP blog I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I ran a project where you could listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- Today's Friday Poem is 'Howl' by Katrina Upperton, accompanied by an excellent pic of Bruce thespinoff.co.nz/books/24-01-20… 1 day ago
- oh my god. A man signed off his email 'Bob' and I've just realised I replied with 'Kia ora Rob'. His name was right… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- RT @sannewman: nothing I envy more than a person who's comfortable touching a stranger's arm in an affectionate fashion as they speak 4 days ago
- RT @simpscreens: https://t.co/BoLHrztqMN 1 week ago
- RT @TheSpinoffTV: The Friday Poem: Kae and the Tohorā by essa may ranapiri thespinoff.co.nz/books/17-01-20… 1 week ago
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Category Archives: Recklessness
Dear Bob Cunis
One of the things I did when up was up in Auckland for the writers’ festival was meet my friend Donald for breakfast one morning, on K Road, just after I had fallen over while walking to meet him. It … Continue reading
Posted in books, Poetry, Recklessness
Tagged Alice Miller, Auckland Writers' Festival, Bob Cunis, clarinet, Diana Bridge, Sarah Broom
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On riding into things
Last week I rode into a swarm of bees. I realised I was going to ride into them a fraction of a second too late. The bees were coming out of a tree growing on the side of the road. … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Recklessness
Tagged bees, bicycle, Casey Neistat, Miramar Peninsula, Wellington
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The unseen ass
To this day, I’ve haven’t thought of a decent comeback. I will never have one. I don’t believe anyone really has one. It’s because there is nothing to say. There’s just nowhere intelligent to go, maybe because I don’t disagree … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Memory, Recklessness
8 Comments
A sense of urgency in the air
– “I have noticed that when moving trolleys through the food store … there seems to be a basic obliviousness about the patterns of motion around them, whether or not there is a sense of urgency in the air, etc.” … Continue reading
Posted in Recklessness, Uncategorized
7 Comments
How to get more mystery into your life
I do. I do want to be found. I do want you to find me. – Kip in The English Patient (film) I recently read this post by Oliver Burkeman about making life more mysterious. Some of the suggestions included … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Recklessness, Uncategorized
4 Comments
dancing plague
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper. Rolf Alton Harris I was worried that this blog was becoming a bit girly, so I decided to use this image of a dancing … Continue reading
Posted in Recklessness, Uncategorized
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