I’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on thatMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 6:09amYou'll be going one step beyond dancing to land of hope & glory in the middle of the night when this book comes out.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:42amBelieve me I’m not stepping into lineMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:09amIt'll be a grey day in our house if I don't get that book. Now shut up!
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Don't worry mate madness is all in the mind.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:25amI’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on thatMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 6:09amYou'll be going one step beyond dancing to land of hope & glory in the middle of the night when this book comes out.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:42amBelieve me I’m not stepping into lineMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:09amIt'll be a grey day in our house if I don't get that book. Now shut up!
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
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Mistakes I’m Mad not madMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:29amDon't worry mate madness is all in the mind.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:25amI’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on thatMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 6:09amYou'll be going one step beyond dancing to land of hope & glory in the middle of the night when this book comes out.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:42amBelieve me I’m not stepping into lineMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:09am
It'll be a grey day in our house if I don't get that book. Now shut up!
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Just keep moving you'll be OK one better day.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:43amMistakes I’m Mad not madMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:29amDon't worry mate madness is all in the mind.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:25amI’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on thatMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 6:09amYou'll be going one step beyond dancing to land of hope & glory in the middle of the night when this book comes out.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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keep moving? Never ask twiceMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 8:00amJust keep moving you'll be OK one better day.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:43amMistakes I’m Mad not madMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:29amDon't worry mate madness is all in the mind.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:25amI’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on thatMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 6:09am
You'll be going one step beyond dancing to land of hope & glory in the middle of the night when this book comes out.
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Sorry I'm not home today. So take it or leave it.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 8:18amkeep moving? Never ask twiceMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 8:00amJust keep moving you'll be OK one better day.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:43amMistakes I’m Mad not madMarky Dread wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:29amDon't worry mate madness is all in the mind.101Walterton wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 7:25am
I’ll compete I have to keep moving but don’t quote me on that
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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63) Sex at Dawn - Christopher Ryan. Audiobook. A pop science book which makes the case that human beings of prehistory were non-monogamous. Not sure I trust its conclusions. There's a sense of information being filtered to go against the standard narrative. The other response is "so what?" We also didn't live in houses but I'm all about that shit nowadays.
64) The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle. Audiobook Read by Derek Jacobi. A decent novel which feels like two books rammed together. The Sherlock Holmes side is as much fun as any other of his that I've read even if Sir Arthur was bored shitless of the character. The other half is set thirty years previously in 1875 and is about a murderous union. Funny to think these were still being churned out in the midst of WW1.
64) The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle. Audiobook Read by Derek Jacobi. A decent novel which feels like two books rammed together. The Sherlock Holmes side is as much fun as any other of his that I've read even if Sir Arthur was bored shitless of the character. The other half is set thirty years previously in 1875 and is about a murderous union. Funny to think these were still being churned out in the midst of WW1.
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When I've talked to students about writing and being bold, I've said that the worst response to your work isn't "I hated this"; it's "So what?"Silent Majority wrote: ↑20 Sep 2019, 5:02pm63) Sex at Dawn - Christopher Ryan. Audiobook. A pop science book which makes the case that human beings of prehistory were non-monogamous. Not sure I trust its conclusions. There's a sense of information being filtered to go against the standard narrative. The other response is "so what?" We also didn't live in houses but I'm all about that shit nowadays.
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65) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving. Audiobook. Irving's reputation as a great American author must come from the fact that all his contemporary countrymen were wholly involved in having babies, working the farm, or engaging in political graft. This utterly sucked. It had half a good scene after 95% of it being tedious village life and loving descriptions of feasts.
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Kids these days, expecting ninja laser fights and f-word hip hops on every page.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 Sep 2019, 9:52am65) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving. Audiobook. Irving's reputation as a great American author must come from the fact that all his contemporary countrymen were wholly involved in having babies, working the farm, or engaging in political graft. This utterly sucked. It had half a good scene after 95% of it being tedious village life and loving descriptions of feasts.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Loose adaptations are better than the OG in this case.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 Sep 2019, 9:52am65) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving. Audiobook. Irving's reputation as a great American author must come from the fact that all his contemporary countrymen were wholly involved in having babies, working the farm, or engaging in political graft. This utterly sucked. It had half a good scene after 95% of it being tedious village life and loving descriptions of feasts.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Also, that Scooby Doo ending is trash.Flex wrote: ↑22 Sep 2019, 10:41amLoose adaptations are better than the OG in this case.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 Sep 2019, 9:52am65) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving. Audiobook. Irving's reputation as a great American author must come from the fact that all his contemporary countrymen were wholly involved in having babies, working the farm, or engaging in political graft. This utterly sucked. It had half a good scene after 95% of it being tedious village life and loving descriptions of feasts.
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"Devereaux's done it again!" - New York Review of Books
"What I wouldn't give to have written this book." - Toni Morrison
"The postmodern condition is laid raw and a new, better path forward shown." - Barack Obama
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Fucking tantalisingly close to finishing the first draft of the novel I'm collaborating on. Probably 9000 words.