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  • Wicked, wicked boy

    So work on articles and book has dribbled to – not quite nothing, but very little. And, caught on the prongs of guilt over not keeping up with my energetic co-editor, I find myself reading pointless comics (Hellblazer) and light books… in between bits of Improving Literature, such as Jungians on dream work and Boice…

  • Symptomatic

    Sorry I'm not blogging very often; still feeling a bit distant/reserved from the blog after the messes with TypePad; and still a bit uncomfortable with its new interface, which is technically better but more complicated (which is of course distracting from the business of actually writing). An interesting discovery, an uncovering, at my doctor's appointment…

  • Pillar to post

    Irritable today… after spending too much money on things I don't really want, while feeling pushed from one thing to another – £750 for the privilege of staying in the UK, £440 for new glasses with frames I don't quite like. Phone calls to government agencies and chain stores, lots of voicemail and people apologizing…

  • To the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

    [A grumpy letter to the festival. Perhaps I should sign myself Brigadier-General, as in those parody Monty Python letters to the Times.] Dear LLGFF, So the 22nd London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is on tour; and just three movies from its series will come to Newcastle, at the Tyneside Cinema, in mid-August, with about…

  • Mamma mia

    Well, well, two summer blockbuster films in one week: quite bizarre for me. David C. and David R. wanted to go; I argued that I didn’t really want to see Mamma Mia, but they wanted to, and it sounded pleasant to spend the time with them, so I went. Well. I suppose there are a…

  • Too dark a knight

    Today, a day of seeing the doctor, prescriptions, correcting paperwork, getting things done: a decent enough day, though there was no Writing of the Book in it. (And I can’t help thinking that those are the dangerous days: when you really are busy but don’t get any of the big stuff done. However, admittedly, there…

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