A summary of events.
I’m not updating this very often at all. Which was always the plan, in that I kind of retired from blogging. And as a write a little more in other spheres, I’ve tried to find other hobbies that don’t involve sitting at a PC thinking about words. Thing is, Twitter…
On Leonard Cohen, and music before words
This is in danger of becoming a music blog, but if people WILL keep dying and/or enjoying spectacular critical revivals then that’s the way it’ll have to be. The world has lost a genuine great with Leonard Cohen’s death. In some way the situation is very dissimilar to Bowie’s death,…
The Lost Will and Testament of Jake Thackray
You know that thing many felt about David Bowie? I felt it when Jake Thackray died. I won’t overplay this: it wasn’t the utter loss and grief of the uber-fan. More an unexpected wash of upset, startlingly so, given that I was fairly convinced that I wasn’t the sort of…
“So she slammed the tailgate, but unfortunately that thrust the canoe forwards through the windscreen…”
It is a shame about Narcoleptic Dave’s car. The occasional incident like that makes me miss writing JonnyB’s diary. Fortunately, this sort of thing is quite rare in the village these days: a few years on and we are all quite sensible. We didn’t even manage the village outing to…