Yesterday didn’t go as planned. Just after I blogged about intending to spend my day drawing, I got a delivery through the post. It was some hay fever tablets I’d ordered after finally accepting all the weird symptoms I’d been experiencing the last few weeks (sore eyes, sneezing, pressure in my ears) were explained by […]
Continue ReadingMeh Fever
This is a blog so you’ll have to excuse it if it occasionally follows the rough contours of my mood. I got up today feeling like I have nothing interesting to say. “Hmm, when has that ever stopped you?” I hear you ask. Yet I really don’t feel like writing. It could just be the […]
Continue ReadingPassports, R Numbers, and Bolsheviks
A new piece from me, yesterday, on what I think is missing from so much of the coverage of Trump in Tulsa. As I sit here today, however, at 11.20am on a Tuesday morning, I’m waiting for the news to break that the lockdown is finally ending. I’m not entirely sure what to make of […]
Continue ReadingThe Fnigle Eater of Shdadt
Once upon a time, many cold winters ago, there lived a fnigle eater of Shdadt… Or that, I am reliably informed, is how these stories usually begin. Myself, I can’t say that I fully understand this rather ridiculous tradition. After all, everybody knows there was a fnigle eater of Shdadt because, well… Where would Shdadt […]
Continue ReadingMonday: Lost
Bit late today, as I’m always likely be late after a weekend of important political developments. My blog writing always comes after I’ve finished my more serious work, so this morning that meant a 1000 words about Tulsa. I don’t think I approach either my more serious writing or my blog writing any different, except […]
Continue ReadingEasy Words / Hard Words
Three people dead and more in hospital after a stabbing in Reading and the troglodytes on Twitter were bouncing with nervous energy. They needed a name, a nationality, or least a skin colour, before one side would be able to claim the high moral ground. Was it a white nationalist and a member of antifa? […]
Continue Reading50 cents!
One of the unintended consequences of publishing that book earlier in the week was that it forced me to think about the collection of new cartoons I was considering put out there. Turns out that this isn’t going to be as easy as I’d hoped… It’s not so much the work – so much work! […]
Continue ReadingThe Week in Review
A product of my Gag Machine but also, I thought, the best way to end a week which began with a filthy cartoon about Philip Schofield, then developed into a three-day exercise in republishing a book of slightly vulgar but hopefully funny tales (current sales: a hardly surprising zero), and which ended with my experimenting […]
Continue ReadingSome Old Monks
Whilst looking for some old work which I thought I might as well archive here before I lose it (and discovering that I might have indeed lost it), I came across a directory of old monk cartoons that never made the finished book. I keep finding these directories so I never know which I’ve made […]
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I never take selfies. It’s a rule I have but, I confess, this FaceApp fad I’ve spotted on Twitter did make me wonder what I’d look like as a woman. Yes, yes, I know. Stop the giggling at the back and don’t claim you’ve never wondered about the whole opposite-gender thing yourself. I didn’t exactly […]
Continue ReadingTrutherism
I’m not sure how or when “truther” became the go-to word to describe people who routinely spread lies, but I suspect it’s going to be a word we hear a lot in the coming months. (Quickly checks the OED. First use: 2005, in the alt.fan.gene-scott usenet group, during a discussion about the government’s “involvement” in […]
Continue ReadingLate Night Update…
It’s been a busy day. I wrote a new piece for Reaction, about the disclosures in John Bolton’s new book. Link here. I’ve also added a link to that other book I shall not name over on my Books Page. It still feels weird putting this book back out there. I’ll probably regret it in […]
Continue ReadingDoodle
Just a cartoon I drew a couple of weeks back. Figure it helps me get me back on track… This is another of the cartoons I draw for my personal file. They’re a bit too out there to go to a magazine, though also my cartoons which aren’t “out there” still don’t get in magazines. […]
Continue ReadingFrom Crap to App
You’ll be glad to know that my slight detour into the world of erotic fiction is over. All 42,656 words of the “book” (plus one illustration) are now published and will reappear in the Amazon store within, I think they said, 72 hours. That’s assuming it passes the review stage. There’s nothing in it that’s […]
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