Archive for January, 2011

About Not Getting Arrested, And Other Outstanding Achievements

I didn’t get arrested last night, which was nice. A good start to my Sunday morning, compared to the recent Saturday morning when I woke up on my floor and couldn’t feel my hands. The Friday night before that Saturday I got so pole-axed I couldn’t ride my bike. The police noticed this, along with [ READ MORE ]

A Distillation of The Academy, or, A Media Release

Media Release – Jan 2010 Format Festival’s Academy of Words A one-day shit-fight about the things we want to see start to happen in the publishing industry. Directed by Ryan Paine, ignorant blogger, book editor, ratbag … All of the day’s events are focussed on the idea that the publishing industry is changing apace and young people are at the coalface. There [ READ MORE ]

Trade Off

Can Publishers Set the Terms of Trade in the eBook Market[ READ MORE ]

Nor’eas’si’e II, by SIB

The graffers are pyros roun here: … … And their brick ovens are DIY: … [ READ MORE ]

Come Fly With Me

Last night I came home to an empty garage and a light on in my kitchen instead of outside my front door, and my small, serviceable flat was swarmed with flies. They must have got in through one of my less-than-serviceable windows and flocked to the light. Do flies do that? Anyway, they’re still here and [ READ MORE ]

Academy Program

Format’s Academy of Words is about six weeks away, and we’ve started meeting to discuss things like who can drive a manual and how many bean bags we will need. I submitted the program late, but they were cool about it: Sam Rodgers is a machine. I feel I have joined with a like-minded crew of [ READ MORE ]

Nor’eas’si’e, by SIB

The graffiti is bomb roun here: … … And the graffers wear sick helmets: … [ READ MORE ]

Failing at Understanding New Words, or Word Wankery

I woke up yesterday to this Word of the Day on my phone: ‘felicitate’. I really hoped it would mean ‘to facilitate beauty’, because my understanding was that ‘felicity’ basically meant ‘beauty’, which is incorrect, unless you agree that the state of ‘being happy, esp. in a high degree’ is the same as the state [ READ MORE ]

On Assaulting Your Friends in Dreams

I just woke up from a terrible dream, into a wakingness I resented because it was still 4 am and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep – I was suddenly too aware, not groggy like I’d just woken up, and immediately my mind started racing, and I felt compelled, as [ READ MORE ]

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