Article 24
I'm just posting to say that I'm not posting. It would be a reasonable assumption that, having created a nascent friendslist, I was now scribbling like fury through a series of carefully delineated...
View ArticleFeeling Constructive
I've an unexpected enthusiasm for minor DIY! I've installed blinds, raised the bed by 30cm to store the comics archive, and put fitted storage into an alcove. I like sawing, drilling, standing back...
View ArticleNeither beautiful nor useful
A friend has recently built himself a woodshed. Every good woodshed needs Something Nasty in it, so I'm going to make him one. I'm not sure how best to do it. It needs to survive rain and ideally...
View ArticleBerks do furnish a room
I've decorated/unpacked and I'm really happy with my room. I go into small ecstasies at every minor amendment, and send links and pics to friends and relatives: 'I have a nice lamp.'''You know all that...
View ArticleDr Who = gateway drug to queerness WHO KNEW.
There's an auction of Dr Who gear at Bonhams, stirring up childhood recollections.ME: 'They've got Nyssa's plum velvet outfit. I wanted to be Nyssa when I grew up.WORKMATE: I wanted to marry Nyssa. She...
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Without sufficient comment, and mainly for my own record, an edition of Antennae (the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture) on botched taxidermy. Humans attempting to capture and replicate and do...
View ArticleVictorian filth
Had a seminar last night, teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray. The text, and the Wilde trials, prompted the question: what models of same-sex passion were available in the late Victorian era? What was...
View ArticleFerret.
Does anyone know somewhere, or someone through who, I could meet a ferret? (Happy to go to a fete or a farm, donate to a charity, or chuck someone money for the experience.)There are professional...
View ArticleAnything with a pulse
I'm trying to eat a bit less dairy. I've started a spreadsheet listing some of my favourite foods and my reasons for liking them to see what change I can easily achieve:I like PIZZA because it is...
View ArticlePhotographers' and twitchers' event
Photography Workshop on urban wildlife. 10 quid unwaged, 30 quid waged, Saturday April 3rd. Breeding black redstarts in Deptford! (Just because I don't comment on your pictures of flora and fauna...
View ArticleSolitary vices
Making the young people's music is accepted as often-collaborative (even though one member of a band sometimes carries the others). Creative writing is often assumed to be solitary (even though writing...
View ArticleTickets for BBC comedy, this Friday
I've got four tickets for BBC comedy pilot, Wood Green, tomorrow night!I *never* get BBC tickets! So had forgotten I'd applied for this show, and am unable to take them up on it.Would anyone like them?...
View ArticleWood skip wood skip wood skip
I have mentioned the art skip, in which art is placed around this time of year. Nothing awesome so far (can we beat the glittering heraldic shields or the space rocket from last year?). Now campus has...
View ArticleFree radio comedy this evening
I've got two spare tickets for a radio comedy pilot on Wednesday: Will Smith (floppy-haired posh Bergerac fan) in a sit-com set-up (rocky marital relationship). The tickets are free, so I am neither...
View ArticleLondon Pride tomorrow - come as you are.
Pride is fun, and Pride is about community getting information about politics and activism and meeting new people. And waving flags and wearing a stupid outfit and prancing down the main street as...
View ArticleFAQ
I was having a very pleasant time at BiCon but I was, I think, unusually vague, over-stylised and lapsing into verbal shorthand. Exacerbating that, everyone else looked pretty sleep-deprived.So I...
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Tooled up on Baker Street
On Dr Watson's first adventure with Sherlock Holmes, the laconic consulting detective asks him:"Have you any arms?""I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.""You had better clean it and...
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Lots of bands with 'wolf' in the name.
I went to my first festival at the weekend, in a garden built by a Victorian atheist to entice people away from church on a Sunday. He ran free coach trips from nearby towns. They'd deck the woods with...
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Making bisexuality boring since 1992
It was Bisexual Visibility Day last week, and I posted this, then took it dow, fearing it was a bit rainbow-coloured-wholemeal-snowflake. But people said it wasn't as bad as that, so I'm putting it...
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Giving the Bones to Someone Who Appreciate Bones
Edited to correct: I NO LONGER have two books by Natalie Goldman (author of Writing Down the Bones) which I don't want: Wild Mind and Thunder and Lightening, both on creative writing. SORRY!Posted on...
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