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12 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘writing’
Torche Reviewed Mon 14 May 2012
My review of Harmonicraft, the new album from Miami sludge-pop quartet Torche, is up now on Thumped — as is my recent take on Night of the Living by Limerick’s We Come In Pieces....
Pelican Reviewed Fri 20 Apr 2012
Just like the ungainly bird they’re named after, Pelican might not look like much, but they’ll bite the arse off you. My review of their new EP Ataraxia/Taraxis is up now on Thumped....
Only Fumes & Corpses Reviewed Fri 30 Mar 2012
My review of the new EP from Galway hardcore band Only Fumes & Corpses is up now on Thumped. (In short? I liked it a lot.)...
Weeknotes #533-550 Thu 29 Mar 2012
The first quarter of the year’s almost done and there’s so much I haven’t written here. I’m well overdue a catch-up, I know. This one may be brief, but it’s better than nothing. The highlights: Hitting the four stone mark...
Dead Neanderthals Reviewed Fri 02 Mar 2012
I’ve got a review up on Thumped of the new Dead Neanderthals album. Thanks to Pete for accepting my pitch! Here’s to more writing in 2012....
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 7 Fri 29 Jul 2011
Last items from the 2006 file: Every Jeopardy! question ever Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names / Some of these must be real band names by now. Shiberu Ban’s paper house / A house made out of paper. For...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 4 Tue 15 Feb 2011
The rest of 2005, condensed into hyperlink form: The Universal Packing List / Generates a custom packing list for any journey, based on a few simple inputs. Good work! A ridiculously large collection of fonts by Dieter Steffmann Baffling Cuteness...
Weeknotes #480 Mon 17 Jan 2011
I’ve been ploughing through The Creation Records Story over the past few days. By now I’m at the stage where my interest is trailing off – I can’t stand Oasis – but that’s only the last couple of hundred pages;...
The Blog is Dead Tue 12 Apr 2005
I haven’t written much about my journalism course, have I? I don’t know why that is. Maybe I felt like it wasn’t worth such close analysis. Or maybe I was just embarrassed about the lack of work that I have...
To Write, Perchance to Work Tue 09 Mar 2004 | 3 Comments
Reading a piece by Kelly Caldwell on weblogs and writing from some months ago, the following paragraph drew my attention: I think there is a reason why established, professional writers don’t (as a general rule) maintain weblogs. Well, there are...
Hot Sauce Tue 20 Jan 2004
My second contribution to Omnivore is now online, entitled Hot Sauce; a cautionary tale regarding the perils of condiment overconsumption. I hope that you might find it quite galvanic. As was the case previously, any mistakes in spelling, grammar and/or...
Reading and Writing Mon 13 Jan 2003
Today I read 130+ pages of Stupid White Men', finishing the book. I also perused the first two issues of Careless Talk Costs Lives which arrived in the post this afternoon, and started writing a review of Star Trek:...
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