Skip to content
Dunciad Dunciad

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits…

Primary Menu
  • Blog
  • Prose
  • Politics
  • Cartoons
  • Photoshop
  • Twitter
  • W&Y Podcast
  • Contact me
  • Buy me a coffee!
  • My Books!

Day: 13 August 2020

  • Home
  • 2020
  • August
  • 13
Category: Post

I like Bill Gates… There I’ve said it. Now what’s your problem?

Posted On 13/08/202013/08/2020 By David Waywell6 Comments

Maybe my defences are a bit low today because I’ve been writing about QAnon but I’m in no mood to read any more conspiracy nonsense… And believe me: I paused a long time back there when writing the word “nonsense”. Those eight letters aren’t up to the task. I want to write “flaming pile of […]

Continue Reading
Category: Post

You Can’t Beat The Curve…

Posted On 13/08/202013/08/2020 By David Waywell2 Comments

Forgive my shoddiness today. I’ve been writing about the madness that is QAnon all morning, so I didn’t get chance to sit down and write about the things I’d intended to write about. I might leave that for another post and instead write a very quick piece about the exam grade controversy that’s currently in […]

Continue Reading
Recent Posts
  • Hello World…
  • Star Child
  • The Politics of Peak Shift
  • Picking A Baby’s Name Is Tough…
  • Can GB News Survive Its Own Contradictions?
Close

Why 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.

Copyright All rights reserved Theme: Galway Lite by Themeinwp