Hey FOLKS! Welcome back to my blog. This week I’ll be etching angels into blocks of ice and teaching you how avoid smudging your mascara whilst reading Immanuel Kant. I hope you’re all having a simply wonderful time. I’m swell, thank you for asking! I’ve lost three pounds since last week which proves once again […]
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An ugly cartoon for an ugly man at the centre of an ugly story. I have mixed feelings about this cartoon. I put it on Twitter and immediately deleted it. Am I perpetuating a terribly racist trope? I don’t think so. I think I’m simply shaming the man. There’s something so predictable about a man […]
Continue ReadingThe worst part about writing anything based in the “real world” is when I get something wrong. I feel terrible when it happens, even though I also realise it’s an occupational hazard. I know I can’t stop my prejudices from informing my writing. That’s true of all writers and it would be foolish to think […]
Continue ReadingI have typically conflicting feelings about Bansky. Whilst I like most forms of public art, I’ve never understood the rationale that makes him so acceptable. He is, in my eyes, a decent graffiti artist but producing the kind of stencil-art that is seen in every city and town. Depending on its location, it’s sometimes viewed […]
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For the new Martin Rowson drawing challenge. For those of you who don’t get the reference and haven’t follow the career of Michael Gove, it’s long been rumoured that he once tried to unblock a toilet with a vacuum cleaner…
Continue ReadingTwo threads of my inner monologue came together today leaving me feeling like I’m simply not a good person. The first thread: I learned the sad news of the passing of Grant Imahara, who had been part of the team that brought the world Mythbusters. He was tragically young and it’s clear how much his […]
Continue ReadingProperly 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 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.
