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[A Pleasurable Headache] What is that large, ominous cupboard sitting directly on top of the toilet?
September 5, 2021
Just the links this time around too I'm afraid. Links Surviving a Decade as a Full-time Author No One Has Heard Of <https://litreactor.com/columns/surviving-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Dark Matter in Crates off a C-130
August 22, 2021
It has been an unrelentingly grim time in the day job this past week or so, so please excuse the brevity of this week's edition. Links i had a problem with...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Catching a meteor with your bare hands as therapy
August 8, 2021
Another two weeks and some great progress on Project Greenfingers. I finally cracked the spine of the thing, introducing some conflict that was just not...
[A Pleasurable Headache] American rope, put there by American soldiers
July 25, 2021
Let’s get right into it, shall we? Why it’s (almost) impossible to argue with the right https://www.salon.com/2021/07/18/why-its-almost-impossible-to-argue-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] When something's good it's never gone
July 10, 2021
Updates The short story mentioned previously (lets call it Project Greenfingers) continues to plague me. I'm trying to adhere to my own mantra here of "Trust...
[A Pleasurable Headache] a little bit of everything all of the time
June 27, 2021
Updates I've been beavering away at another short. At this point, I think it's missing something. Most of my projects usually come about when two previously...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Godless Grifters & The Swartzelder Method
June 13, 2021
A short one this week as the day job becomes a chaotic mess. Never take time off, kids. You’ll just come back to so much work. Links Young, Male and Anti-...
[A Pleasurable Headache] we can remember that for you wholesale
May 30, 2021
Apologies for this one. A system snafu means I am reconstructing this edition of the newsletter mostly from memory after the last version was swallowed up by...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Bolt-01; regeneration; escape
May 16, 2021
Updates For those in the British comics scene you will probably already know about the passing of Dave Evans (aka Bolt01) recently. For those not in the...
Simmer; a sense of direction; cheese
May 2, 2021
News & Bits https://twitter.com/ryanklindsay/status/1388200772823748608 As mentioned in the previous issue, Everfrost (Words: Ryan K Lindsay, Art: Sami...
[A Pleasurable Headache] actual updates; logging off; a hidden horror gem;
April 18, 2021
Updates First up, Everfrost #1 drops in June from Black Mask Studio. "All scientist-warrior Van Louise wanted was to retire and get off-planet as her society...
[A Pleasurable Headace] she ain't no human being
April 4, 2021
It’s another short one this week I’m afraid. I’ve been spending the last week or so looking at (like really looking) at some of my favourite newsletters, the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] the language of destruction
March 21, 2021
It's a bit of a short one this week. I'm still sitting on a huge amount of links to read in my backlog. This week has been my first real week off at the day...
[A Pleasurable Headache] man of clickbait, man of longreads
March 7, 2021
Updates A rejection this week for a piece of flash fiction. Originally the piece was a Drabble that I had punched up to take advantage of a pretty high level...
[A Pleasurable Headache] the real lesson was the knights we lost along the way
February 7, 2021
Over the years I've tried to kill the perfectionist streak in me, trying everything from self-imposed deadlines to CBT. The latter has probably been the...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Habits; Tenet returns; Zwift; Q-Anon's structural integrity
January 24, 2021
We’re already nearing the end of the first month of 2021. This year, for me at least, is all about going back to basics after the plague year shattered all...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Rebooting Cyberpunk; the small web; Gatwick drone; Tenet; the mighty giraffe
January 10, 2021
We're pretty link heavy for this years first edition. Have at it! Cyberpunk Needs a Reboot by Ryan Zickgraf...
[A Pleasurable Headache] Shadowrun; Le Carre; 2020 in movies and books
December 27, 2020
I hope you all had the best Christmas you possibly could, given the circumstances. 2020 continues to act like the antagonist of every slasher movie ever,...
[A Plesurable Headache] the wolf; web waste; bro culture; manchette; pilger
December 13, 2020
Not a huge edition this week. The day job has been hectic with a return to work after having to self-isolate. That said, next week is my last full working...
[A Pleasureable Headache] KSR; Violence and Watch Dogs; the lowly Kettlebell; House of Fear
November 29, 2020
This weeks links: Kim Stanley Robinson and socialist sci-fi Owning your computer Watch Dog Legion and depictions of violence The Kettlebell House of Fear Kim...
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