I have passed through "being frustrated" re the internet shenanigans (tl;dr THIS FUCKING INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER ISN'T PROVIDING A SERVICE) and am now into acceptance, where I just deal with the fact that I will never, ever, ever catch up with my online admin or editing and that I am going to use my entire data allowance in ten seconds and Virgin ( Read more... )

Yesterday: Went to the cafe in the old public toilets to meet Budgie, who was delighted by the location and then GRIEVOUSLY INSULTED ME by describing The Renaka Device as "Hemmingwayesque", which is clearly the nastiest thing anyone has said since the influx of people consistently saying my poetry reminded them of Eliot finally dried up. But I had ( Read more... )

Unlike apparently everyone else who flings themselves at words, I still prefer the "actually writing" bit to the "I have written" bit unless there's something worthwhile to distract me from the HIDEOUS GAP between "finished doing a thing" and "someone has acknowledged that I've done the thing, therefore it is Real ( Read more... )

I've been out with Ruthi twice in two days and I'm seeing her again tomorrow Ruthi I hope you're not sick of me yet ( Read more... )

I would like to tell you that the reason I somewhat forgot to update until now is that I've been monstrously busy but I did spend quite a lot of Wednesday having unnecessary fights on Facebook so that's not what I would call Exactly True. (I also had an Unnecessary Fight IRL in that I punched a man's BMW and told him to die in a crash but it's okay ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to Green Park with Pingy. We ate strawberries and drank a bottle of wine and a bottle of something else, and we played conversational topic table tennis, veering back and forth between memories of K, the use of horses in the city, the difficulty of being friends with people who are ill in ways that may kill them without warning, ( Read more... )

Pride summary ( Read more... )

Summaries ( Read more... )

Dick party pretty good, aside from:

1. PLEASE STOP BURSTING BALLOONS NEAR ME I DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT
2. oh my god stop outing me to strangers I don't care if they're nice I don't care if they're confused as to why there are dick balloons I don't care if you're drunk it is none of their business refer them to me and I will either give them an ( Read more... )

Poetry

Only you can prevent

As noted elsewhere, being BLINDINGLY FURIOUS is a good way to make poetry happen. Best we don't ask why.

LAST NIGHT, right, I went to THE BBC and watched two hours of Natalie Haynes and guests making jokes about Ovid and Agrippina the Younger and it was GREAT. The audience were disgusting I have never heard so many ( Read more... )