NFTs and the Mona Lisa Curse
Why making art of value is more than just making yourself scarce
What can be learned from the suffering of the rich?
How I was cheered up by an article that argued I needed to make £300k to live comfortably in London
Friday Poem: On Jordan Peterson’s assertion on Question Time that racism should be tackled on an individual level because the concept of structural racism is too abstract, imprecise and low-resolution
A poem followed by a blog
Friday Poem: Declared Goods
We never count how many “goods” we utter each day.Good morning. Good weather. Goodnight, sweetheart.The Lord looked upon his creation and saw it was...
Writing for The Beast
How W.S. Graham’s The Beast in the Space can help orient the writer in a hyper-connected world
Friday Poem: The Good News
I pass him at the same time most mornings, pacing, proselytising, jeans turned up, casual shirt ironed, unlike mine, and I think about how gentrification has...
Remembering the Ice Bucket Challenge after watching Jordan Peele’s Us
The following blog contains spoilers for the Jordan Peele film, Us. Being so-on-the-button with the latest trends and cultural happenings, I just got round...
Poem in which the dove that Roy Batty releases at the end of Blade Runner develops an unquenchable thirst for power and becomes Twitter
I didn’t ask for a hand that has made murder to clamp down my wings and tail feathers as the ubermensch that caught me attained samadhi with his final breath...
What Blade Runner 2049 says about quitting social media
Do Androids tweet electric hot takes?
The Good Life was so bad, it made me want to quit streaming.
In the years since I returned to gaming, I have enjoyed reading reviews or comments online about really bad games. Not disappointing games or underwhelming...
The Moon is not a Cliché
A public service announcement
Poems written during Wednesday’s live stream (15/10/21)
One last visit to the Lake
Why being a scenester isn’t always an option for introverted artists
Not wanting to create within the context of a collective is not always a case of the “lone genius”
Poems I wrote during Wednesday’s live stream
I live stream most Wednesdays, when I’m not knackered from my paternal duties or dealing with the momentary return of covid symptoms. While I have failed to...
Tips for surviving National Poetry Day
Don’t worry, it’s just another day, it’ll be over soon
Paragraphs that might have been tweets, the response they might have received and how I might have felt about those responses (6/10/21)
One of my reasons for setting up a substack is so that I can get away from twitter and the twitter mentality. Here are some paragraphs based on ideas for...
An Italian man makes a grand, drunken entrance at the Tesco Local — A Haibun
‘The exciting news, it seems, is that he is quite drunk and is ready to make friends.’
Can Substack save me from Twitter?
I am exhausted and numbed by Twitter. Can rekindling my blogging help me to put the bird site to bed?