Owen Booth

A very red tomato that appears to be folding in on itself as if under its own immense gravitational pull

Tomato singularity

Ouch

They are, they are. I’d have to choose The Long Goodbye as my fave (not least because it’s the longest)

Prose is still great. Feels a bit slower than I remembered but I think that’s just because books have sped up in the intervening period.

Books! They’re great, aren’t they? Except for the terrible ones!

For no particular reason and in no particular order, here’s some things I’ve recently been reading/re-reading

So-called 'bad track' is complete and utter bollocks.

Oh but now I’m reading a *beautifully written* book about incredibly boring people and to be honest I’m not sure how to proceed

Don’t make me mute you Ray. You’re better than this.

Didn’t do it again though, did he?

Somebody quoted this from one of my stupid books - "You'll find that most of life consists of repeating yourself again and again and again, and hoping that eventually by some miracle it might make a difference" - and I realised it’s both the definition of insanity and my absolute philosophy of life

Speculative Zoology and the World of After Man; an Interview With Dougal Dixon — Tetrapod Zoology Time for more Spec Zoo at Tet Zoo!

“Other popular-level books used evolution to tell the story of the past, but nobody had taken the whole process – the observable trends – & projected them into the future”

—Speculative Zoology: @tetzoo.bsky.social interviews Dougal Dixon, author & illustrator of AFTER MAN
tetzoo.com/blog/2025/3/...

However I am happy to read books about very cold people, such as this one, which is totally wonderful

I don’t want to read your terrible books about boring people. Or your boring books about terrible people, for that matter.

I went for a run so you don’t have to. There was a dog (not mine).

Heads up! We are closing in on the THREE HUNDREDTH edition of A Personal Anthology, which will be something of a landmark.

I've got some great contributors lined up, but more are needed. So if you love short stories, and can write something about a dozen of them, please get in touch...

Will ask him today! And likewise.

Very much this. The wonderful circle jerk of media and ruling class arseholes who care only for their own enrichment. They are happily destroying the country but it's okay, because they are *oh so civil* and that's what *really* matters, isn't it?

The Sunken Bell is an unpleasant pub. Grim men, salt-scarred and edging mania, hold to its tables as if to let go would cast them adrift in some terrible storm. Even the local farm perries cannot compensate for what can only be called an atmosphere of doom. - Hookland Fruit Cider Pub Guide, 1980

“Why can’t I just have ideas in my mind?”

I’m feeling attacked here, Ray…

Backyard. Am good

#LegitimateConcerns

Is it the fucking Jutes again? Fuck’s sake!

I have installed myself with a (single) pint

What has he done now? I’m too scared to look

See you there

Nag’s Head. Any time that works for you from 7pm

Name the day and I’ll be there. In fact I might just go to the pub tonight and wait for you to turn up.

PINTS!