This week: The future according to ’70s Japan, Einstein on praying, 10 over-rated books, and Leos Carax isn’t a people person.
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Ryanair to Make Passengers Sit Inside Each Other
Saturday, May 26th, 2012Budget airline Ryanair are planning to fuck their passengers up the arse a little bit harder, with plans to make them sit inside each other on flights. (more…)
This Week’s Reading, 20.5.12
Sunday, May 20th, 2012This week: Marcel Proust playing air guitar, Harvey Pekar, Patti Smith’s poetry, and a defence of Nikola Tesla.
Good Old British Bloggers
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012blog
Spelled [blawg, blog] noun, verb, blogged, blog·ging.
Noun. Weblog. Example: The blogger blogged about his books.
Let us remember the days when our opinions were wasted on our peers and our poetry was destined never to see the light of day; a pencil scrawl in a diary. The days when we transported music on a cassette that held only fourteen tracks and waited for hours outside Woolies for a friend to turn up, because we had no means of sending a message asking ‘WHR R U? IM COLD N ALONE. LOL.’ Now look at us, typing our every incidental thought and contemplation onto a web log, for the world to peruse. (more…)
My life in the IRA
Friday, May 11th, 2012During those rather tenebrous days of the 70s, you could go to a cocktail party and discuss Genesis, Pink Floyd, and Yes, and there would be no smirk, the conversation would not linger on the superfluity of notes, the brazen ostentatious lyrics, instead the conversation would be serious, almost academic, maybe too academic, the conversation would be littered with Greek and Roman allusions, the lyrics would be compared to Byron and Keats, the musicianship would be fawned over. During wine and cheese you could bring up any subject, the intelligentsia would deconstruct and construct with the vigor of Irish road workers. I spent very little time outside, so the dark, wind, and rain hardly bothered me, the early 70s was lived not between cocktail parties, it was one long endless cocktail party, and this is how my trouble started. (more…)
This Week’s Reading, 06.05.12
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
A Virtual Pleasure: Book Reviews for New Writers
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012Let’s talk about book reviews. Book reviews for new writers, in particular. (more…)
This Week’s Reading, 29.4.12
Sunday, April 29th, 2012This week: Robert Crumb, Ezra Pound, orgies in space and more. (more…)
Loss of a Pet – Willie Smith
Friday, April 27th, 2012When I was ten, I got two things I dearly wanted – a BB gun and a pet hamster. I kept the hamster in a cage at the foot of my bed. After a while, I bought a girlfriend for him. But they started to copulate and so we decided to move the cage down into the basement. That’s where I had my BB gun range.
At the range I shot baseball cards, toy soldiers and newspaper pictures of famous people I didn’t like. I remember shooting Francis Gary Powers completely to shit. He was the guy in the spy plane who told everything. How the hell were we supposed to beat the Russians with finks like that? As I fired away at the few remaining shreds of his gray forehead, I thought vindictively of Benedict Arnold, righteously of Nathan Hale.
I also enjoyed shooting that traitor de Gaulle and photos of all bald people in general. The shiny domes made keen targets. (more…)
This Week’s Reading, 22.4.12
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012After a week’s hiatus to deal with the headcrushing chaos of London Book Fair, TWR returns. This week: Kool Keith, post traumatic stress disorder, book spine poetry and Les Fleurs du mal illustrations.
