Other Things

Some things don’t last forever

frustration, online rants, rare books, vanishing 13th November 2021 Musings, Other Things

There was a time when everyone thought that everything on the Internet was going to be there forever – rings around the world. And, to be fair, some stuff hangs around and some stuff unexpectedly pops up when you’d rather … Continued

Pride and diversity and futures

diversity, new release, optimism, Pride 21st September 2021 New Books, Other Things 1 Comments

Last weekend, I took my kid to Milton Keynes Pride Festival, and we had a lovely time. Part of it was the joyous warmth that generally seems to fill the air at any kind of Pride event, even though the … Continued

OnlyFans won’t be the only ones

censorship, money, porn 22nd August 2021 Other Things, Rantings 1 Comments

It looks as though OnlyFans is going to go down the same plughole as Tumblr… and various other corners of the Interweb that previously gave sex workers and porn creators a chance to earn a living and express themselves on … Continued

I Went To A Marvellous Party

going out, party, puritanism 28th July 2021 Other Things 1 Comments

Some, of course, started dancing at a minute past midnight last Monday. Clubs, finally allowed to open their doors after nearly a year and a half, generally went for it, with predictable ‘hot takes’ (some whinyarsed puritanical scolding, some handwringing-but-broadly-sympathetic, … Continued

Guess what else is coming home…

bookselling, events, football, memes 10th July 2021 Events, Fairs and Markets, Other Things 1 Comments

‘Coming home, it’s coming home’ is one of those things that was a meme before memes were a thing.25 years down the line, a football song made less irritating than many others by its wistful self-deprecation has been hauled into … Continued

Not so sexy sex scandals

behaviour, naughty, news, politics, scandal, sexy 26th June 2021 Musings, Other Things 2 Comments

Mate, couldn’t you have waited? Not so much for the ‘rules’ to change (because everyone knows that most of them are arbitrary nonsense rather than sensible public health guidance) but because if all the Matt Hancock Sex Scandal had only … Continued

Review Rage – Right and Wrong

authors, bad behaviour, books, criticism, reviews 27th April 2021 Musings, Other Things

Reviews can be the bane of any author’s life. Some people would advise never reading them because too many bad ones will make you miserable – and perhaps too many enthusiastic ones will make you bigheaded. Certainly one author recently … Continued

Poetry, rhymes and reasons

erotic poetry, erotic verse, performance, poetry 24th January 2021 Musings, Other Things 1 Comments

People seem to be paying attention to poetry again, it seems, which isn’t surprising in the light of Amanda Gorman’s magnificent The Hill We Climb. Her books have stormed up the charts and rightly so. Poetry for important occasions, state … Continued