We are waiting for connection. We are waiting for an opportunity. We are waiting for this path to be filled; with life, with victims, with delightful sounds. The sounds of passion, and pain, and punters passing by. We’re waiting for you.
We’ve been waiting like this for too long. We waited while you were misbehaving in [...]
It’s astonishing how hard it can be to find a small, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computer. I should know: I’ve been looking for one for ages.
I want something very small and simple, with just a browser and a plain text editor on board. I want to be able to go out all day and just [...]
My latest at The Morning News is A writer by any other name:
Well, it’s accurate, you can give it that. But there’s not much spark, is there? Not much of me. Where’s the humor? Where’s the person? Where, in particular, is the biography? These two sentences are just statements of fact, things my mother could [...]
Issue 6 of CRAM magazine is out now, and it includes a couple of things I wrote: Breakfast with the White Stripes and What Radiohead gets.
Elsewhere in the pages of this free PDF mag you’ll find articles about high quality beer, healthy breakfast cereals, and an amusing and informative infographic about coffee. Go grab [...]
The Morning News published a little piece I wrote, about someone whose life was changed by a pivotal moment. I suspect a lot of people have moments like this, that shape their futures. Not many of them are so well defined, and they don’t often get documented. I find people’s descriptions of such moments fascinating.
Jenny [...]
This is not new, but I can’t find it in any of my online archives so I thought I’d post it again.
The dungeonmaster was a ginger-haired boy called Patrick, known to everyone as Paddy. I’d been in the same class as him for years but never really got to know him that well; I was [...]
Well, here it is then. Hidden Stories is the place for inspiring people to hide stories in silly places. It’s a bit brown. I hid a story in central Bradford this afternoon. Tee hee.
Oh, and if anyone could let me know if it looks acceptable in IE, I’d be grateful. Ta.
My personal light cone reached Gamma Serpentis earlier today, a distance of 36.3 light years from Earth. The bug-eyed monsters who live there have just witnessed my birth in a small house in a small town in north Kent, and are wondering what kind of a writer I shall turn out to be. Everyone born [...]
Sometimes it’s possible to sit down and start typing the beginning of an article, and just keep going until you reach the end, having discovered a satisfying middle about half-way through.
But not always.
This morning I sat down to write something fairly short (about 400 words) on a topic I know well. A few days [...]
ROBIN: Right, I think we’ve easily got an album’s worth there.
SIMON: (Shrugs)
ROBIN: We should do some final mixes. Which one first?
ELIZABETH: Fotzepolitic, I think.
ROBIN:
SIMON:
ELIZABETH: You know, it goes “See-en soo-bon sme bachtooyoo” in the chorus.
ROBIN: Ah, right. That one. Me and Simon call it “Jangle 3”.
ELIZABETH (Annoyed): Fine. That’s one track. What else?
SIMON: I [...]
