Note: Before we get going, it strikes me as slightly ironic that when I bought www.bloodonthemotorway.com the idea was always that the novel would be serialised, and this domain, Blog On The Motorway, would be simply a new home for the blog I have written for years. The title being nothing other than a simple [...]
I was going to do my next 30 day song challenge today, but it seems a little unseemly to me to be writing about a song to have at my funeral when there is so much death around. From the death of a young woman who lost a battle with addiction and whose funeral is [...]
Last night I was getting all flustered about not having blogged in a whole week, when my partner rather sagely pointed out that nobody is even remotely likely to have noticed, something which seemed cold and cruel at first, but also wildly accurate. I never really notice when even my favourite bloggers go quiet for [...]
Song 23: Ben Folds – The Luckiest So here is the point in which I betray my gruff manly exterior and expose myself to be a puppy dog cry-baby lady man? Oh wait, in order for that to be true I would have to have a gruff manly image to shatter, wouldn’t I? Never mind, [...]
It seems a strange irony that the general increase in engagement with the news in general by the public at large seems to correspond directly with the complete collapse of the news making industry. You see that sentence there? That’s why I will never be a journalist, you know, a proper paid one. But who [...]
Song 22. Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill So we rumble on towards the end of the 30 day song challenge with all the enthusiasm of a wounded buffalo approaching a watering hole ring fenced by lions. Once again we find ourselves covering old ground, as I can’t really see the difference between today and ‘day [...]
Much as it pains me to admit, the time to recognise defeat has come, and a hasty retreat is needed. Almost exactly one year ago I took the bold (for me, anyway) move of kicking nasty evil Windows into touch and moved into the wild unknown of Ubuntu. Smarter, faster, and it meant that I [...]
One thing about fandom in general that I find appealing is its constantly shifting nature. There are always new and exciting things to come along and take your attention away from those things that you’ve listened to or watched or read that one time too many. You can get bored of a band, or a [...]
Now that I’m getting pretty jazzed about my writing again, I’m really keen to do my total physical rewrite of Blood On The Motorway’s opening chapters. Since I have written on some form of computer pretty exclusively since I started writing for sun, I’ve always edited by tinkering with the existing text. It seemed somewhat [...]
I will return to the 30 day song challenge shortly, but the next topic is ‘a song that makes you happy’ or some such, which is too difficult for me to wrap my head around at the moment, given that I have a head full of nasty cold, which I am currently trying to expel [...]
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