The Year Starts
There is a weird leap to try and erase the previous year when a new one comes around and pretend that there is a blank slate being drawn upon; like we have hit a Star Trek reset button. There is no tabula rasa…
Keep It Regular
There is a weird leap to try and erase the previous year when a new one comes around and pretend that there is a blank slate being drawn upon; like we have hit a Star Trek reset button. There is no tabula rasa…
I like to watch biopics. I also dig straight historical documentaries. I like to delete the drama out of them and understand the data. Sometimes the data is the drama, I suppose, but I am not entirely convinced that understanding the noise…
Most of the regularity in regards to my creative work has been offline. Apart from watching films and reading books on Kindle I have had a fairly limited interaction for me. I needed to take a bit of a break. As with…
I have started doing something on TikTok, where my name is Musehicktok, where I ask people for requests of what they would like me to write a poem about. I relish the challenge, and I love the chance to get know those…
There a desire to remain somewhat uneducated. Why? Because education can smooth off the edges and make you as boring and tedious as the dusty fuckers who think that they are the gatekeepers of culture. If you dance to the music or…
Watching writers read and watching writer’s stories explored by talking heads around them is interesting. Does it give you more than the writing you read from them? I’m not sure. When I would write about reading Bukowski I was doing so with…
I realised the other day that I may have found animals that I have owned after they have passed, but I have never sat with an animal as it dies. It seems reductive to even generalise, because my cat Gandalf and I…
Whatever you think the cause of the irregularity has been this year, you would have to agree that it has been unusual. I think anyone that is reading me is likely to agree that the source of instability has been the incumbent…
I have actually been doing a lot, none of it made its way through this extrusion nozzle though. It’s kind of a weird world to live in at the moment. I go to work because that is not locked down and it…
I’ve been part of a few writing communities over my years online, but a lot of them, if they didn’t disintegrate, kind of wound down into lesser versions of themselves. You go through the honeymoon period where there are all these new…