“I have no idea where we’ll be by later today.” It’s been a very long 24 hours since I wrote that line. My Mum is now in hospital and I don’t have much news, mainly because of the ’vid, which means I couldn’t go with her, can’t visit, and the hospital are clearly so […]
Continue ReadingAn update for those of you following my current trials. Yesterday my mum mostly slept, which meant I could grab a couple of hours to write an article which should appear sometime today. The sleep, however, has been worrying me but then I remembered my summer… You might remember that a few months ago I […]
Continue ReadingMy mother is not Hunter S. Thompson. If you’d thought that, you would be labouring under a misapprehension or you’d be simply confusing her with my sister. My sister has been struggling with her inflammatory condition for so many years that she can take drugs like a pro. She’s like the late master of Gonzo […]
Continue ReadingApologies in advance. I hate boring people with my ongoing problems but I honestly find these blog posts useful. First, they’re a way for me to vent a little. Second, they provide a good record for what’s been happening. Many a time I’ve come back to look at a blog I had written to remember […]
Continue ReadingA hypochondriac looking after a hypochondriac is a toxic mix. I spent more time that I should this week Googling “my knees feel nauseous”. Those weren’t my knees, I should add, but my mother’s knees and Google didn’t have an answer. My mother had a complaint that medical science had never before discussed. That was […]
Continue ReadingLong day which began sometime around the dawn chorus as I finished my piece on last night’s debate. You can read it over here. I grabbed a few hours sleep but it’s been one of those difficult days, largely on account of yesterday being better. Today was one of those days when we tried to […]
Continue ReadingI forgot to blog yesterday and nearly did the same today. Pretty exhausted at the moment and I want to stay awake tonight to catch the last debate. I’ve also had a long week and yesterday was especially busy with phone calls. Yes, I do find it strange to write that line. I never get […]
Continue ReadingHearing test day today so I’m rather nervous. Not for me, you understand. My Mum has never wanted a hearing aid and we’re not entirely sure how she’s going to take to it. Her dad wore two most of his life after being left deaf after being a gunner in the Great War. Friends I […]
Continue ReadingI managed to get my US news back on my Amazon Alexa. I bought one of these tiny pocket routers/hubs, plugged it in, uploaded a small zip file which I downloaded via my VPN, which contained al the OpenVPN details for the account I use. Minutes later, I’d connected my Alexa to it and was […]
Continue ReadingI read an argument today that I’ve heard so often over the past few months. It amounts to… “Human beings are not meant to live like this.” It’s about COVID-19, of course, and it’s only a persuasive argument because it appeals to our vanity. We’d like to think we’re all above the grubby business of […]
Continue ReadingGlossing over yet another Boris Johnson affair – surely the most non-story story there’s ever been – I thought I’d write a little bit about politics today. Life proceeds at pace otherwise but I’m not going to dwell on that. Instead, I thought I’d talk about the fact that Republicans are now splitting off from […]
Continue ReadingLately I might have given the impression otherwise but I do still love blogging. I know I’ve not exactly been firing on both cylinders for a few weeks, but life remains complicated by my Mum’s recovery, which on some days seems right on course. On others, not so much. Today has been one of the […]
Continue ReadingI got distracted today, partly on account of editing a podcast yesterday and getting behind with other work… Otherwise, I’ve been pissing my time away today trying to get a VPN to work on a Asus router so I might still have access to one of my regular sources of US news which has now […]
Continue ReadingWell, I’ve had better birthdays. Just off the top of my head, I’d rank higher any birthday when my aunt didn’t die. Yep. You heard that right. Mid-afternoon I hear the doorbell goes. I assume it’s Amazon delivering something… Hey! Perhaps even something for my birthday! Except, no. It was a teary relative I’d not […]
Continue ReadingHappy Amazon Prime Day! Happy #NoBraDay too (I’m not wearing one)! Happy #OralBDay too! I’m sure there are a few more of these dumb hashtags we could celebrate, though if you’re in the party mood, it’s also my birthday, which I share with Paul Simon, Margaret Thatcher, and Sasha Baron Cohen! Very nice!!! There was […]
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.
