Headphones on, hunch over the keyboard and working on my bad posture, I’m the breed of writer who always has music playing in the background. Most of the time it’s just random stuff on Foobar, but sometimes I’ll listen to one side of a vinyl over and over. Depends on the mood really….. And that’s one of the great things
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Allow me a moment of melodrama as I say that in hindsight there’s a sense of prescient to reading this just before the UK general election. Following the results, a dark cloud descended on me as I reflected on the machinations of power. But that would be in the future, because I had ear marked this tale of vengeance for
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I like to think that I work pretty hard at this, and lately I tried my hand at creating more work for myself through Patreon. But it hasn’t been sitting easy with me, especially in light of thoughts I’ve had over Christmas. So in the past couple of weeks I’ve given some thought to the balance between content and doing
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Who is that? Not the author himself? Well, knock me down with a feather because last week I was warned off from looking back over 2019. Now, I don’t want to offend Crow’s delicate sensibilities regarding mediocre retrospection, but we’re gonna have to have a little talk about music and what happened on the eve of 2020 . Rationale &
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Out of the roiling chaos dances the Wide Wanderer, she who makes the North Wind and who kicks out the snake’s teeth. All things are hatched from the world egg…… “Ahem.” *Sigh* Even Crow. “What are you doing here?” I ask. He gives me a cheesed look. “I heard you were going to make some pun about 2020 and hindsight
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With Or Without You Oh, how many times have you been caught thinking, “I wish I’d never been born?” It’s like the motto of the civilised peon when confronted with their inevitable slavery, so cunning in its artifice that the chains are mere smoke and mirrors, a world of bread and circuses filled with sound and colour all signifying nothing
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People can often be heard to talk about the soul of a “thing”; that a film has soul, that a tune is soulful, that a dish is soul food or even that an object might speak to their soul. I don’t think we spend much time thinking about what any of this means. If something has soul, how does it
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