I try to avoid using Twitter but I have two problems. The first is that I like it as a source of news. The second is that I like to keep in touch with people I perhaps naively think I know and like. The fault with the platform – and perhaps all social media platforms […]
Continue ReadingI under-blogged yesterday, if there’s such a thing and I’m not sure there is, but only because I was too busy writing two pieces for Reaction, one on the new kind of political convention (spoiler: I like them) and then a piece on the arrest of Steve Bannon (spoiler: only the best people…) Today I […]
Continue ReadingWrote all morning about the Democratic convention and, the moment I finish, the news breaks about Steve Bannon’s arrest… I was only wondering a couple of days ago how the world would bring Bannon’s reign of influence to an end. I don’t know what promoted it, but I distinctly remember standing in the kitchen thinking […]
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Not sure why I went back to this one. I think it was the legs on the previous one. It was an example of where my mind sometimes works too literally. I drew proper legs when he deserved something… odder. Then the lip just seemed like it needed enlarging and then it was obvious that […]
Continue ReadingWas up until a stupid hour watching the Democratic convention. I’m not sure why except it never feels right catching it on Youtube the next day, where there’s too much temptation to fast forward a bit, which always turns into fast forwarding so much you effectively didn’t watch any of it… Perhaps that’s why I […]
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Just doodling…
Continue ReadingA new piece by me over yonder, talking about the US Postal Service. Today I’m going to spend more time drawing but not simply because I need the practice. I find pulling faces around to see if I can find a caricature quite relaxing and I definitely need a little of that after the whole […]
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It’s been an odd few days since I cleaned out ten years of emails from my old email account. If you remember, I mentioned that there were probably 38,000 emails from eBay alone that I had to delete. What I didn’t mention was that, as a result, I had to contact a certain organisation about […]
Continue ReadingCrashed into Monday morning with all the finesse of a cyclist with wet leaves clogging his brakes. It’s 5pm and only now do I have the time to sit down and blog. I expected to be doing this over my breakfast. So, apolgies for that and what will be a slightly rambling post. I’ve already […]
Continue ReadingPositively chilly today. It’s 18 degrees, cloudy, and rain (if not thunderstorms) are predicted. [Literally, as I publish this post, the rain arrives… Beautiful!] I could sense it was coming. Yesterday I could not wake up. And I mean: I. Could. Not. Wake. Up… I think it was some deep physiological response to the changing […]
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I don’t intend on posting too many of these but I’ve had a long hard week and I want my blog to see Friday out with one of my favourite cartoons from my newest collection, Crap Star Trek Alien & Other Drawings…
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This afternoon, I deleted my Twitter account. I got up today thinking I’d re-engage with the world. I now see my mistake… I suppose I did it because I’m in a bit of a transition. I’m clearing my decks, deciding what (if anything) I’ll do next. At the bottom of this post is a project […]
Continue ReadingFriday and already under attack from QAnon cultists annoyed by my piece yesterday where I’d called QAnon a cult. I knew I should have just called it a “nutty cabal”… I should have seen this coming. Commenting on American politics from a distance, I sometimes forget that there are a lot of people seriously invested […]
Continue ReadingMaybe 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 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.
