It’s been an odd few days since I cleaned out ten years of emails from my old email account. If you remember, I mentioned that there were probably 38,000 emails from eBay alone that I had to delete. What I didn’t mention was that, as a result, I had to contact a certain organisation about […]
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Crashed into Monday morning with all the finesse of a cyclist with wet leaves clogging his brakes. It’s 5pm and only now do I have the time to sit down and blog. I expected to be doing this over my breakfast. So, apolgies for that and what will be a slightly rambling post. I’ve already […]
Continue ReadingPositively chilly today. It’s 18 degrees, cloudy, and rain (if not thunderstorms) are predicted. [Literally, as I publish this post, the rain arrives… Beautiful!] I could sense it was coming. Yesterday I could not wake up. And I mean: I. Could. Not. Wake. Up… I think it was some deep physiological response to the changing […]
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I don’t intend on posting too many of these but I’ve had a long hard week and I want my blog to see Friday out with one of my favourite cartoons from my newest collection, Crap Star Trek Alien & Other Drawings…
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This afternoon, I deleted my Twitter account. I got up today thinking I’d re-engage with the world. I now see my mistake… I suppose I did it because I’m in a bit of a transition. I’m clearing my decks, deciding what (if anything) I’ll do next. At the bottom of this post is a project […]
Continue ReadingFriday and already under attack from QAnon cultists annoyed by my piece yesterday where I’d called QAnon a cult. I knew I should have just called it a “nutty cabal”… I should have seen this coming. Commenting on American politics from a distance, I sometimes forget that there are a lot of people seriously invested […]
Continue ReadingMaybe my defences are a bit low today because I’ve been writing about QAnon but I’m in no mood to read any more conspiracy nonsense… And believe me: I paused a long time back there when writing the word “nonsense”. Those eight letters aren’t up to the task. I want to write “flaming pile of […]
Continue ReadingForgive my shoddiness today. I’ve been writing about the madness that is QAnon all morning, so I didn’t get chance to sit down and write about the things I’d intended to write about. I might leave that for another post and instead write a very quick piece about the exam grade controversy that’s currently in […]
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Taking a break from a two-page cartoon spread I’ve decided to finish (I hope to post it tomorrow), I found myself in a strange tidying mood… It’s probably because I’ve had an Amazon account almost as long as I’ve had email that my Amazon account is linked to my very first email account. For that […]
Continue ReadingWrote late into the evening about the VP pick. Should you wish, you can read it over yonder. I have to say, though, I’m feeling some mild relief that Biden announced Kamala Harris last night and not just because I think the ticket is probably the strongest that Democrats could field from those running. I […]
Continue ReadingDear Diary… A post that will ramble, so apologies in advance. Given I posted four times yesterday, I guess is makes sense that today I don’t feel much like posting at all. I shouldn’t have looked on Twitter, though I’m waiting for Biden’s VP announcement since I intend to write about it. However, having looked, […]
Continue Reading… (as written by Stephen Miller, with contributions in black Sharpie by Donald J. Trump) Four score and seven years ago our fathers, along with Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and the great George S. Patton, strongly brought forth on this continent, a brand new premier, world-class, top-of-the-line, triple A, gold standard nation, conceived on Fox News, […]
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Three blog posts in a day — perhaps there’ll be more — because I’m catching up on a slightly wasted weekend. I’m trying to improve the quality of my drawing and this Mogg picture was the first step towards that. I’ve taken more time doing this than nearly anything I’ve done in the past few […]
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Discussing favourite books of childhood, I was reminded of “Taste for Adventure”, a book that still lingers in memory. I don’t know how I came to own a copy or why I read it. I do remember loving it and then, many years later, writing to the author in my guise as Stan Madeley. I’m […]
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.
