Okay, so, I need to be able to rate things 3/5 without it being a complaint.
No Chris, 3/5 does not mean I have to explain issues. It means it was totally and utterly banal and fine.
I do not give someone five stars for fine. I'm European. Adapt your flipping software.
8am taxi to the orthodontist. Wonderful woman. Deary me, I've never had a fourth minute chat about pickles before. Woe
04.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Like the work, pick up a copy of my second collection, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman Book of the Year for '23: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819
03.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"etchings of a complex choral unity ... promp[t] fat fruits to turn host and heavy womb."
Formicidae, 1st published in Dreich, '20
A new work, a wild epic, is coming later this year, the Kerygma, through Salmon #Poetry
#writingcommunity #art #writing #books #publishing
Going to start sharing my published work again, as I did between '24 and '25, not including the work in books. Partly, because I feel like it, and partly because, with a book coming out relatively soon, it makes perfect sense :)
03.03.2026 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A wee blast from the past
www.youtube.com/watc...
@Liac_Scot
If you missed it, today's (correct) lit pile on slams the awful quality & that it somehow = an $150,000 award.
I too adore bathing equatorial sweat and pheromones, but prefer being slick as seal-pups. Adds extra dimensions - the transgressive jouissance of love in an age of decentralized speciation
Me: perform complex tasks to deadlines, juggling multiple priorities, aye yeah.
Also me: take old but good boots eight minutes to shoe repair guy - takes almost two years.
I've just finished Strumpet City.
It's a masterpiece.
Anyone stating that writers don't need to read is a charlatan.
Anyone who tries to counter this by saying it's ableist to say so is a charlatan who works in admin.
If you don't read, you'll make a dreadful writer.
Moreover, if you don't read, you'll be a lesser person.
Dumb question, but how cold does it have to get on a Friday night for a northern Innuit to go, 'yeah, screw that, I'm staying in, it's too cold'?
-40 perhaps?
Just finished watching Brideshead Revisited (1981) ... absolutely stunning.
Masterpiece.
Interesting!
Thanks for sharing.
Would that I were at home!
Be careful, or the Chinese will steal your ice hockey...
Next up: how time travel saved curling from the clutches of Mao Zedong.
Whenever I see anyone in hippy garb, advising another to do their research, I sigh.
Somehow their research always results in the need to roll a six sided dice near a moderately cantankerous cat to discover that the solution is a documentary about 5g sea lice and oatcakes.
I propose a one year ban on jeans and white trainers, to remind people it is possible to wear something different.
09.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 090% of the human race dresses like a grumpy mother had to dress her child in a hurry in an outlet ski store in the dark.
08.02.2026 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the oddest things in modernity is how much so many people undervalue the joy of food.
A delicious late Sunday breakfast provides so much happiness.
Back in the 90s, as a teen, I supported the 'blue ribbon campaign' to stop government censorship of the internet. I now realise, I was absolutely and categorically wrong.
We should have let government take control, then and there.
Lovely lovely lovely chap too.
04.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On WashPo, are there any old legacy minded philanthropists who could give the 300 fired start-up cash to bootstrap a trust-owned paper?
There's literally the exact talent to start a full paper next week, with some ad men and finance needed. Lean, mean, & angry. It's perfect.
One day, perhaps, the 90% of Gen-Z, who can't stop waggling their feet or wiggling their legs, at all times, will learn how to sit still.
I've never quite understood why they are such ferocious adepts of constantly fidgeting.
Did their parents never say, stop fidgeting?
Remembering the guy at house parties who always tries to take over the music to play you 'real hot shit,' in other words, the seven millionth attempt to play arcade five, the flaming lips, and, maybe, Beirut.
Is he still a thing?
Strumpet City
What a line.
Oh I agree, just wanted to listen on a walk.
24.01.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Take this in Valley Girl, for instance: one thing I’ve noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses, and the worse that country is doing.
China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China
From now on, imagine Trump's speeches in valley girl vocal fry.
'oh my gawd, it's juhst soh unfair, we got everything, then we wanted more and they said no? Like worst people ever!'
Then you realise how small, how weak the man really is.
A petulant embarrassment.
