Stayed up far too late last night so today has been a long fizzle of nothing. Iāve drawn two cartoons and packaged up my Surface. Other than that, mehā¦ I feel tired, which never bodes well for the day. I canāt think when this tired. Even coffee didnāt wake me up. Despite all of this, […]
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Just more doodling the theme of the month…
Continue ReadingYou probably know by now that I am not, by any measure, a nationalist. On my better days, I donāt mind being British and I can even take a little pride in British accomplishments, though Iād never ā and I mean never ā get a flag tattooed on my leg. If I were ever in […]
Continue ReadingBefore I get into today’s post, a link to the piece I wrote yesterday for Reaction on Trump and October vaccine. Right. Now. Today… Sigh. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in gods. I don’t believe in ghosts. I don’t even believe in luck. I belive in science and technology and the progress of humankind… […]
Continue ReadingBit late today but not so late that I canāt wade into a debate I donāt care about, about a music festival I donāt watch, about music Iām largely indifferent to, and sensibilities that usually wind me up the wrong way. Iām talking about the suggestion that they might dump āRule Britanniaā from this yearsā […]
Continue ReadingAnybody born in Britain in the years after the war were taught one vital lesson. Whatever the peril we faced, there would be some Brits who would stand up, sort things out, get us through it. Americanās call it “The Greatest Generation” but we donāt really have a term for it. āThe Fewā is reserved […]
Continue ReadingāI can see your problem. You can draw cartoons but you canāt think of any decent jokes.ā That was the very first thing I read this morning. And I mean: the very first. And it was directed at meā¦ And you might wonder why I sometimes struggle with confidence? Yes, itās Saturday and I *almost* […]
Continue ReadingI 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 ā and perhaps all social media platforms […]
Continue ReadingI under-blogged yesterday, if thereās such a thing and Iām 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 Bannonās arrest… I was only wondering a couple of days ago how the world would bring Bannonās reign of influence to an end. I donāt 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. Iām not sure why except it never feels right catching it on Youtube the next day, where thereās too much temptation to fast forward a bit, which always turns into fast forwarding so much you effectively didnāt watch any of itā¦ Perhaps thatās 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 […]
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.
