Happy Amazon Prime Day! Happy #NoBraDay too (Iām not wearing one)! Happy #OralBDay too! Iām sure there are a few more of these dumb hashtags we could celebrate, though if youāre in the party mood, itās also my birthday, which I share with Paul Simon, Margaret Thatcher, and Sasha Baron Cohen! Very nice!!! There was […]
Continue ReadingEek. It’s already 10pm and I didn’t blog today. Been really busy with two cartoons (possible commission!) and writing a piece for tomorrow, whilst also followed the Senate confirmation hearing. Not much of an excuse for not blogging but it’s the only one I have. I’ll do better tomorrow, I promise…
Continue ReadingThanks for all the kind messages yesterday. I’m feeling better than I have in days. A solid nine-hour sleep helped. It was my first proper nightās sleep in too long and if thereās one defining truth about me itās that I need my sleep. Yet, yesterday, sleep wouldnāt come. Nothing I could do could stop […]
Continue ReadingItās World Mental Health Day, which I donāt normally mark because Iām never sure who decides which days are which. Seems like a marketing gimmick to meā¦ However, I thought Iād write a bit about about my own mental health after the last few weeks. It might help me today. I feel I need to […]
Continue ReadingPolitical ideology can be such a crock of shit. This thought crossed my mind enough times in the past twenty-four hours that I thought I should write it down. Politicians often present their fundamental worldviews as though they are coherent, yet itās so notable how so little of it makes sense. I donāt particularly like […]
Continue ReadingWell, that was every bit as hellish as I feared it would be. I’m not fully fit having been a bit ill earlier in the week. I’ve also not been pounding out the miles for the past six months. So, though I managed to get us to the hospital in time for the appointment (half […]
Continue ReadingI have a new piece over yonder, which is a profile of Kamala Harris, who was always my pick for the VP place on the Biden ticket. In other newsā¦ Iām badly in need of some luck. Not that I believe in āluckā but itās better to believe in some transcendental power balancing the old […]
Continue ReadingAnother day off today makes it sound like Iāve been doing nothing but this week has already been busy. Written two long articles (the second should appear ahead of tonightās Vice Presidential debate) in addition to my other duties including pushing a wheelchair to a blood clinic. Iām still knackered and suffered a little yesterday […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump has just declared himself fit for the next debate. I don’t know what to say, except I guessed that he would. At the moment, the best way to anticipate Trump is to imagine the most ridiculous thing he could do in any given moment. That’s my conclusion, having done a lot of writing […]
Continue ReadingI’m late to the blog, which is an indicator of my day being stupidly busy. Not just real world stuff but writing too. Politics is in a crazy place in America and Donald Trump is acting beyond the point where it can be rationalised as “disruptive” or “non-traditional”. Tonight he’s leaving hospital, telling people that […]
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Iām sure Iām not the only person waking us this Sunday morning and watching that new Donald Trump video with a regretful degree of scepticism. I want to think good things about his recovery but how can you when you know youāre being played? First, the video was released alongside pictures of the President working […]
Continue ReadingRest day… I am knackered.
Continue ReadingIt had bothered me. I’ve spent my time today writing a longish piece (you can now read it over yonder) or putting together a short animation (purely as a bit of relief) and all the time Iāve been wondering why Warrington Specsavers no longer do home visits around here. I mean, this really bothered me. […]
Continue ReadingFelt like more of a normal day. Just finished a piece on the latest development in Trumpworldā¦ Fascinating stuff. Should appear later today over at Reaction. In other news: the Welsh male voice choir are still camped out beneath my motherās bedroom window and sheās getting mightily pissed off with them. I must admit, Iāve […]
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Hard to get going today. A bit of normality ā the thing Iāve been dreaming of for days ā but I find that my brain wonāt work. I think itās exhaustion but itās also hard to break that sense that Iāll be dashing around doing something in the next five minutes. My Mumās now taken […]
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.
