C.A. Monks

Landscape in oils on canvas.

Liquin. Prussian blue, paynes grey, burnt sienna, vandyke brown, lemon yellow, white.

"An author must have a social media platform to get a publishing deal." - George Orwell, 23rd October 1984.

It all seems pointless. The entire industry seems to be based on what idiot celebrity can sell substandard shit to morons.

Fuck 'em.
I'll write.
It's what I love.

Today, someone accused me of being woke.

Yeah. Thanks for the compliment.

I've tried portraits twice and failed each time. It's so difficult. The margin of error is so narrow.

You've nailed this. It's so good. Congratulations. Bask in the pride, you've earned it.

Everybody is a fucking idiot.

You, me, them, everybody.

Realise, compensate, THINK!

I'd planned to write today. Yesterday, I mentally prepared myself to have a long 7-8 hour writing session on my new novel.

So, naturally, I painted this instead...

The essential satire of the summer.
#reading
#booksky
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The essential satire of the summer.

#reading
#booksky

amzn.eu/d/9tbIgwn

Rock and roll tsar.

Olivia Rodrigo has a new fan. I'm going to add her to the list of women I'm totally in love with.

Currently: 109,783.

If you go back a million minutes, you're in February.

If you go back a billion minutes you're in the 1990's.

If you go back a trillion minutes, you're arguing with God about the shape of mountains.

(Nb: some of this might be mostly inaccurate)

Watched a bit of #Glastonbury on TV. So far, the highlights have been Wet Leg, Franz Ferdinand, and Neil Young.

So talented, but they make it look so effortless.

I'm getting a weird sensation that i should write a biography of the Austrian singer Falco.

I'm trying to ignore the signs. My efforts aren't working.

Oh, that's interesting.
I can't stand it. All the queuing and the time it takes irritates me.

I've just written a piece for a website (I might get around to creating eventually) on how to present liminality in novels without resorting to life events.

Yes, to me it's odd. But each to their own!

I love being in new places, but I could do without the traveling part of it all.

(I know you were using "travelling" figuratively)

Neil Young just has that ge nay say quwa.

(Pardon my French)

He is a fucking legend, though.

Oh, I'm so ahead of the curve...

I thought rod stewart was a twat yonks ago. His songs are crap, his style is crap, his personality is crap.
Quite frankly, I was hoping for the apocalypse only for the reason that he lives relatively close to me and I'd be justified using him as food in an emergency

I'm sure who ever it is will be "too woke" and "not as good as Sean Connery" in a million news articles.

What if Yoda wanted to be circumcised?

I'm willing to give bluesky a proper go, but the engagement level is woeful.
This is probably a waste of my time.

Flooding the zone with shit is a media strategy designed to wear you out.
Every media conduit is either a commercial entity or mimics a commercial entity.

The answer is simple:
Stop consuming. Stop watching. Stop participating. Stop giving them what they want.

Oh Saint Jebus, I'm so tired.

Please Gad, lit ma schleep tonickt an eel love you forever. I jist wanna me brain back.

One of my pals related his army training experiences to me a few days ago. He said CS gas hits the moisture (so CS is probably alkaline?)
He said air is the cure, so a leaf blower makes perfect sense.

I watched this a few days ago. The choices and compromises he had to make to get a career really opened my eyes. It's a tough industry.

(I'm absolutely sure you're lovely, but if you disagree, please be nice. I got jumped all over by 2 dickheads yesterday because I read a book they don't like)

Social media tip:
The instant your interlocutor starts trying to initiate an argument, leave the chat.

If you've got some bedevilment about you, you can garnish your departure with "LOL, you're a c**t!" But that's entirely up to you.

And that concludes my TED talk.

When you sober up, this exchange is going to embarrass you.

John Donne never met me.

Though that was probably my fault.

Serves them right for always coming up early. The show offs.