Mind The Gaps – Phil Smith (Book Review)
One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about Phil Smith’s writing is the element of ‘the trickster’ that is ingrained into his work. There is an archness that is quite … Continue reading
Haunted When the Minutes Drag 6
6. Nostalgia Is Not Memory Nostalgia is often mistaken for memory. This flatters nostalgia enormously. Memory is unstable, unreliable, and prone to decay. Nostalgia is selective, repetitive, and oddly resistant … Continue reading
The Big Empty – Unexpected Thoughts About the Universe.
Nature, it seems, is an obsessive recycler with a very small repertoire. If you were hoping for a universe of infinite, snowflake-like variety, I have some slightly disappointing news: the … Continue reading
The Spiral: Six Attempts to Notice While the System Keeps Running 2
THE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IN A LOOP (in which time becomes a washing machine cycle and refuses to let you out) There’s a particular flavour of modern despair that … Continue reading
The Spiral: Six Attempts to Notice While the System Keeps Running 1
I. HOW DIGITAL ERRORS ECHO ANALOGUE HAUNTINGS (in which the machine coughs up its ghosts and pretends it meant to do that) There’s something charmingly pathetic about a digital error. … Continue reading
Haunted…
Well, the proof arrived and it looks bloody gorgeous … It’ll be in Amazon from May 4th.
The Green Man: Myth and Reality – Imogen Corrigan
I was in the process of writing – well, researching – an idea I had for a novel. It involved various incarnations of the Green Man and probably owed more … Continue reading
Ley Lies
Map 1 1 All Mathematics would suggestA steady straight line as the best,But left and right alternatelyIs consonant with history. In his book How We Believe, Michael Shermer argues the … Continue reading
Lies, Damned Lies and Archives.
i The past is fragmented and falsified. Of course, this is nothing new. Archives have been doing this since the concept of archive was first mooted but if, as a … Continue reading
Weird and Eerie (2) The Phantom Hitch-Hiker
Part Two – The Phantom Hitch Hiker. i. Thumbs It is 1981, and my friend Mark had just bought his first car. We would go for night drives, searching for … Continue reading
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