A few personal highlights from August 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots. This is my latest monthly selection of snapshots of things that caught my eye over these past few weeks, comprising the month of August 2023. As you will see, sunflowers figure heavily this month, as August will likely prove the peak month for […]
Cafe München: long-gone… but perhaps not entirely forgotten? This London bar was home to so many stories, including Forbidden Planet signings by Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alexei Sayle and a host of 1980s comics luminaries.
When you look back on this time, will it prove to be your favourite age?
2000AD memories! This post celebrates the first forty(-ish) years of 2000AD – and all its inspirational joy and anarchy – through five memories of the future.
The best times are behind us. The best times are right now. The best times are ahead of us. Which of these three statements is truest for you right now? It’s likely that each one will appeal to us in different ways at different times. Earlier this month, the print edition of the NME (the […]
If a tree falls in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?* Is the true Zen wisdom of blogging to be found not in whether it speaks to an audience, but in the purity of writing itself? Moby has been there and done that. In a fascinating chinwag […]
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