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My New Project is Launched.
The Dragon and I have been collaborating on this in our spare time, and today, we launched it. On the Dragon's birthday, no less.
So, dear friends, please meet tardisaliceFor the first instalment in "Alice Who?" you can go directly to ( Read more... ) -
Where, O where, is my freedom?
Now, London, don't get me wrong. I think it is wonderful that you offer Freedom Passes to the disabled, and that we can use these on buses/Tube whenever, and the London railway line after 10.30. No denying it's a wonderful service, and much appreciated ( Read more... ) -
Crumbs! Finishing unfinished business - after all these years!
About ten years ago I started writing a novel. I had written them before. I can't even remember exactly when I started writing this one. Anyway. It's pootled around on various CDs and disks and floppies. It's survived several computer changes. It has been unfinished for at least eight years. Every now and again, I got it out, opened it up, read ( Read more... ) -
Throwing a question out there.
Generally speaking, do you prefer an user-name on a blog or journal to have an underscore, or a hyphen, or do you prefer it to be one word?
For_example, for-example, or forexample?
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It's going to be a bad hair day. For the next couple months.
I could almost cry. I've just had my hair absolutely slaughtered for the first time, a truly bad haircut - dreadful - beyond doubt the worst cut I've ever had, eclipsing the BAD Amelie-fringe look I got given when I was 17. And I always used to get such good results from that place too ( Read more... ) -
I swear my hair's changing colour.
I swear my hair is turning redder by the month. It's turning positively coppery, especially when I'm wearing red. I've heard of people having eyes that change colour depending on their clothes, but hair...?(other than whitening or greying, of cos ( Read more... ) -
Rotovision? Rotovating? Or talking a load of rot?
Does anyone know what term I'm trying to remember here, a term that describes an art style which produces images with a very similar quality to Dave McKean's illustrations for Gaiman's "The Wolves In The Wall" and the cover for "Coraline ( Read more... ) -
Twelve years to the day.
Still not forgotten, Ian. I still miss you so much and wish so much that you could have known everything that I went on to do. And I wish I could have known even half of all the wonderful things that you could have gone on to achieve yourself. You should have known them too, yourself.
In memoriam, friend.
Somewhere in this journal are some of the ( Read more... ) -
Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)
The death of Lee McQueen, best known as Alexander McQueen, has come as a hell of a shock. I didn't know him, nor did I meet him at any point, but I knew of him ever since I started taking an interest in fashion post-1960. I also admired his work very much indeed, although many's the time other people have criticised me for liking it. Sometimes the ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
So I'm not terribly well. Some kind of stomach bug thing. Strange, because everything else feels fine, apart from having a windbag filled with toxic gas somewhere below my ribcage that sends waves of nausea every now and then. Unfortunately, I got whatever it was off a very lovely tiny tot, and it appears that said lovely tiny tot has since shared ( Read more... )