Exhausted today. So exhausted, in fact, that I haven’t the energy to do anything other than dump a few words in this blog, which itself isn’t a bad thing. I’ve wanted to update it for a week, but I’ve barely had time. More about that later. Stayed up late last night (again), watching the orange […]
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I’m not, I hope, unreasonable. I even hope people who contact me find me pleasant to deal with. I try to be quite generous with my time and attention. I essentially like people and enjoy talking to them. Nothing delights me more than getting a fun message or email. Where I draw the line, however, […]
Continue ReadingIn The Mail on Sunday, this week, Peter Hitchens again writes about what he calls the “Great Panic”. He complains that those that challenge him “choose to abuse me, often with lies, personal smears and swearwords.” He goes further: “Your childish, intolerant reaction has strengthened me in my conviction that mine is the better case. […]
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It feels like the wrong thing to emphasise about a film that’s essentially a two header, heavy with dialogue, theology, and character motivation, but what stood out for me about The Two Popes were the special effects. Crazy, isn’t it? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a film where the special effects were so integral […]
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Is anybody really surprised by the news that a record 3.3 million Americans sought unemployment benefit in just the last week? Is anybody properly shocked by the realisation that so many of our fellow human beings had jobs that had absolutely no security should a crisis hit the US economy? This isn’t so much a […]
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.
