Benjamin Myers

While doing that contrived closed hand gesture that no sane person does in real life.

It beats golf.

No, YOU spend your spare hours getting called a cuck on Darren Grimes' Fashbook page.

#awardwinningwriter

Episode 6 - Under the Rock, Poetry of a Place

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Been up all night worrying about the toads I displaced into a neighbours' pond while relining mine yesterday.

Forgive me, lads. Your palatial new spread awaits.

A man with neither chin nor sock.

Just remembered the bassist from The Damned once had a No. 1 hit with a Rodgers & Hammerstein show tune.

Truly, the past is a foreign country.

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It's spring.

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I definitely find GoodReads reviews way more toxic than anything any broadsheet/literary journal runs.

I'd say the majority would be rejected upon submission.

Writing a novel is not necessarily difficult.

Finding the time and money to be able to write a novel, however, is very difficult.

Great stuff.

I now demand to be a judge on the cake programme. Which I don't watch.

(Not arsed about the dancing one though.)

"Culture should be a knife fight..."

God keeps watch over my office.

Screen Two - The Firm Drama about Bex, an estate agent with a seemingly respectable family life who is also a football hooligan leading a vicious 'firm' of thugs.

This aired 37 years ago today.

Gary Oldman is untouchable in it.

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I'm sorry to hear this, but this is a lovely remembrance. I credit Cliff (RIP) for his positive influence on a large chunk of my writing career.

Sirius the dog. Literary superstar. Friend. Bringer of joy.

A sad newsletter this time, in memory of our best boy, and literary superstar, Sirius:

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I think I shall read this.

‘We’re a pub friendship – with songs attached’: deadpan dazzlers Black Box Recorder return, thanks to Billie Eilish Their unnerving songs about car crashes and suburban ennui, sung in a sparkling yet unemotional RP, stood out from the Britpop bloat. Now, thanks to a certain singer taking their streams stratospheric...

A lovely read by @luketurner.bsky.social on Black Box Recorder, who seemed to lurk spiv-like in the corner of every London pub when I worked at Melody Maker in the late 90s.

(And why have I not heard of Rotting Hill - best title ever - by Wydham Lewis?)

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An exceptionally good package from the good people at Folklore Tapes.

Have you seen (local, to me) 1960s folksy horror/sci-fi flick The Watchers yet? It's on the BFIplayer.

#thewatchers

Not saying she's the worst writer I've encountered in person, but she's in the Top 1.

Not at all.

But a simple citation might help your argument that (checks notes) "they're doing it to get attention".

I was 13 when this came out in 1989. Quite radical, I suppose, when Bros were the big band.

All my music was traded, taped or secondhand then, so when you could buy something new you forced yourself to listen to it all.

And once you've heard Big Black at 13, a conventional career is unlikely.

I'm afraid such a boldly outlandish claim would require some sort of empirical scientific evidence for me to even consider it as fact.

I'm sure those with Tourettes might say the same.

People keep messaging me to ask where they can buy books and when I say "book shops" they genuinely think I'm giving them the sarcastic brush-off.

What's a gal to do?

I recall it as the even more poetic "he sprinkles pressure on his breakfast". Beautiful!

Seems a nice fella, and I'm not saying he *should* discuss his personal life, but I have literally no idea if he's gay, straight, other, had partners, what he likes, dislikes etc etc.

Compared to Richard E Grant or Rupert Everett's film memoirs, it comes up rather short.

This isn't even mentioned in Tim Curry's recent memoir, which - frustratingly - begins (I'm paraphrasing) "If you want to know all about me, mind your own business."

And he sticks to that throughout. Weird.

'But what does that mean? How do you define an island mentality?' 'It means that, once, we looked to the horizon, and we wondered what lay beyond, and then set out for it. We colonised and plundered, and then when innocent people had been slaughtered and their resources accrued, we returned with riches. Then we turned inwards to slowly fester and moil in our own bitterness for a century or two, fearful that someone would one day do the same to us. Believe me, I know because I've been a part of it, but never again. Never again. The sea is a border, a boundary, and living on an island like this makes us think we're something special. But we're not. We're just scared, that's all. We're scared of the world. And that breeds arrogance and ignorance, and ignorance signals the death of decency.' From The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers.

Keep thinking of this brilliant explanation of this Island's mentality from The Perfect Golden Circle by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social