Properly late to the blog today, though my excuse was that I’ve been doing real work. Took me three hours to hammer out just 1500 words, which isn’t bad going when I’m being particularly careful about my words and trying to even more careful about my facts. I had strange dreams last night. Deep elaborate […]
Continue ReadingTo mark the occasion of my giving myself a proper Fat White Family haircut (pictures will not be provided) as well as celebrating my having spent the afternoon drawing (a picture will be provided once I finish it), I thought I’d spread the word on this lesser-known band. I’d say underrated too but they’re fairly […]
Continue ReadingA brief update since I woke up today intending to write something long and thoughtful about politics only to find I’m suffering my usual bout of post-podcast exhaustion. I think I finished editing it at 10pm last night and even a good night’s sleep didn’t help. I still blame the hayfever tablets. I’ve definitely lost […]
Continue ReadingNot sure if anybody is visiting the site since my stats have gone down for the past two days but on the off chance there’s anybody out there interested in the newest episode of the podcast, here it is. This week, among other things, we talk masks, Libya, and cancel culture.
Continue ReadingAt every stage of this crisis, it seems the British government aren’t just a step or two behind the rest of the world. They’re deliberately traipsing along at the rear like surly teenagers taken to see a museum devoted to the stirrup pump. It’s pathological how this government chooses to do the wrong thing and […]
Continue ReadingAs is my nature, I can rarely do things in moderation. I’m currently in a bit of a rut with my work. I don’t know what to do, so at night I’m going through some heavy-duty TV/movie watching. It started a few weeks ago with Piccard but has intensified in recent days. Last night I […]
Continue ReadingYou’ll have to forgive me today. Last night, I foolishly succumbed to Youtube until well after midnight. I don’t know what to say. It was shameful. I know exactly how it happened. I was shutting down for the night when I briefly browsed Youtube, wondering if there’s been any news about AMD’s Zen 3 processors… […]
Continue ReadingAlso from me today, over at Reaction, I did some rough back-of-the-envelope calculations about mortality rates and why politicians seem to get it so wrong.
Continue ReadingWell, that was something of a surprise. Donald Trump has now lost both cases that were before the Supreme Court and with the court divided, remarkably given how Trump was supposed to have stacked it in his favour, 7 votes against 2. I wrote about this a few months ago when the best legal minds […]
Continue ReadingI thought I’d wait to see what the Chancellor had to say before I blogged today but I’m beginning to wish I hadn’t bothered. There’s really not that much to say… I’m sure some of his measures will do what they are intended to do but so much of it works at the macroeconomic level. […]
Continue ReadingChrist! The day is weird and slightly yellow like somebody has scraped butter across badly burnt toast. It hasn’t stopped raining and… well… I really can’t be arsed. I have these days. I sit down, pause to look at what I’ve been doing, and think it’s all utter crap. Two or three cartoons out of […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been watching so much sci-fi recently that I find myself wanting to watch even more sci-fi. On Saturday night, I almost started The Expanse but I realised I have far too many series on the go. I want to finish at least one before various free subscriptions run out. Instead, I thought I’d bite […]
Continue ReadingWhy Dunciad.com?
It’s a cool domain name and it was available. Yes, I know. Available. Crazy, isn’t it?
Really?
Yes. It also helps that it’s also my favourite satire written by Alexander Pope, one of the most metrically pure English poets who also knew his way around a crude insult or two. If you’ve not read it, you should give it a try.
So this is satire, right?
Can’t deny it. There will be some. But it’s also an experiment in writing and drawing, giving work away for free in order to see how many people are willing to support a writer doing his thing. It’s the weird stuff that I wouldn’t get published elsewhere in this word of diminishing demands and cookie-cutter tastes.
