Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 11:08PM 
Excuse me while I blow your mind with this here epic treatise on the psychopathology of the geek, and why the geek kings need to stop dragging the reputation of geeks everywhere through the mud with their lazy, fatuous reversion to cliché. And if you’re thinking of complaining along the lines of tl;dr, then please don’t. George Orwell’s essay 'The Lion and The Unicorn' is 23,000 words, and people still read that.
Friday, January 24, 2014 at 12:09PM I’ve decided to try putting up a few kids’ stories I’ve been messing about with recently. Mostly they’re just bedtime stories I’ve made up for the kids which, if I think there’s anything remotely original about them, I note down and promptly forget about. Normally that's about as far as they go, but sometimes I remember them and work them up a little before letting them sink back into the obscurity of my hard-drive. In an attempt to reverse this trend, I'm going to put them up here.
Writing Saturday, December 21, 2013 at 08:33AM 
Waterhouse's Echo and NarcissusI can never read Henry Miller or Iris Murdoch without wanting to throw their books in the corner followed by a loud fuck off. All writers like this reveal, with their ever decreasing circles of intrigue and destructive behaviour, is their own egocentrism, whose ultimate and inevitable pay-off can only be a solipsistic fart of arriving back where you started. It doesn't matter what it is, and it should hardly be visible, but you need to find some ethical motivation for why you're writing, or there won't be any beauty, just ugliness. It is of course tempting to confuse ugliness with seriousness, just as it is with pessimism or cynicism. But immersing oneself in squalor is just as reductive as drowning oneself in kittens; it's just a different register of self-absorption. Capote complained that Kerouac's work wasn't writing, it was just typing, which can seem the case. But at least Kerouac was trying to do something real by writing fiction that emulated the actuality of lived existence with all its ebb and flow. I know which I'd rather read about.
Writing Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 10:04AM 
Some thoughts on Sebastian Faulks' Jeeves and the Wedding Bells and why it's such fun.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 08:30AM 
