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109: you’d be happy you did it.

July 24, 2019

Hullo. I was in LA yesterday. It rained. I have powers. 44 43 1-43 1 Zero Byyyyeeee!!! **** The wait is over. Thanks for your patience. Issue 44 dropped...

108: totally fishing for booze

July 18, 2019

Hullo. You may be relieved to discover that I’m not wearing shorts. I’m on a plane. That would be inhuman for everyone. Once and Increasingly Near Future...

107: Not being eaten by a tiger is pure art.

July 11, 2019

Hullo. I’m wearing shorts again. This is getting silly. Doktor Avalanche I like to party. Everybody does. What Happen Happen Links Byyyyeeee!!! **** So, I’m...

106: I deserve a diet coke.

July 4, 2019

Hullo. I wore shorts once this week. It’s been a bad time for everyone. I'll Miss You Master xxx Byyyyeeee!!! **** It’s Wednesday 26th July.Four to two I...

105: mumbling inaudibly at a hyperspeed thrum

June 19, 2019

Hullo. It’s the sort of week that even just managing to finish my taxes fails to lift my mood above an autumnal day. There’s a lot of time passing going on....

104: tasted golden treasure from beneath Smaug’s belly.

June 12, 2019

Hullo. The week has been one of intensity and then slowly uncoiling. As such, this is going to be random. I’m hope you’re well. I’m enjoying wearing my...

113:at least three funny jokes

June 5, 2019

Hullo. Just the facts this one. There’s a bunch of free writing linked in this one, so a newsletter is extraneous, right? Contents! DIE ALSO DIE YET MORE DIE...

112: conversations in pub toilets

May 30, 2019

Hullo. I woke up this morning, having finally escaped DIE 8. I am now looking around confused, not quite sure what to do. I’ll do this. Contents! Better is a...

111: notes on the Temple of Tharglethloop

May 22, 2019

Hullo. This is the sort of week when an artist dropping a line saying that they’re behind is a cause for relief, because it means there’s one less thing I...

110: obsession and math

May 15, 2019

Hullo. How come I didn’t know about Crocodile’s mash-up cover of Groove is in the Heart and California girls until now. You’re a fool, Kieron. Contents!...

109: the cold hard calculation

May 9, 2019

Hullo. I write this on a plane, suffering in turbulence. I won’t pretend that doesn’t make me nervous. I’m not superstitious, but I look sidelong at...

108: like a voice in the back in my head

May 1, 2019

Hullo. Prediction: history will look back on this period and call it Bad Hot Takes week. I’m going to save my own for later, not least as I haven't seen...

107: abandoned shelf of shame

April 24, 2019

Hullo. I’m not sure how I lived to be 43 years old and not seen Smokey Robinson being harassed by the letter U on Sesame Street, but I’ve now seen it, and I...

106:neither future, nor fad, but present.

April 17, 2019

Hullo. Yes, I had a week off, in which I discovered that when people say “I’m looking forward to it like root canal surgery” they were actually being ironic....

105: the characters are the dungeons

April 3, 2019

Hullo. My body, having failed to make a script emerge from me, made do with making pus emerge in a tiny red hill on my nose. But the script is done, and so...

104: my mutant power.

March 27, 2019

Hullo. I’m going to keep this tight today, as I’ve got a lot of work backing up, and really need to leave space to get on with it. Or, at least, leave space...

103: so happy I'm scared

March 21, 2019

Hullo. I flew back from Seattle, had to immediately to a dentist where my jaw was pumped full of drugs, and then proceeded to not actually go to sleep at...

102: literary bar room gleeful racket

March 13, 2019

Hullo. I’m writing this in a plane next to a nose-drooling man who I hope has allergies as otherwise I’m sitting next to a plague-bearer and will be patient...

101: a colourful metaphor

March 6, 2019

Hullo. I just did a “I'm very glad the church have decided to join in the celebrations of the release of DIE 4, by hailing its lead with their Ash Wednesday”...

100: Oh, Carlolina

February 27, 2019

Hullo. I've been wincing since I started this list that I only put three zeroes at the front. 001: looks great. 010: and upwards looks great. 100: loses the...