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Category: Blogging
Day-to-day minutiae.
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The media frenzy in the lead-up to the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature each year, with groundless speculation on likely winners accompanied by breathless reporting of bookies’ odds, unconsciously skewers the practices of the “literary elite”: a fictional apparatus that only serves the purposes of those who do not read or write. The…
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Anthologised and reprised: “Jetlag World”
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3 min read
The last time a poem of mine appeared in a journal was back in 2013. But in the intervening years, the dim flame of my poetic muse has been sustained by the appearance of some of my published poems in a number of anthologies. Suddenly, these old poems have a new agency. They just “hit…
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(Substack) Origin Stories
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“Enter the Dreamnation!”
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After two years in Paris working for the International Transport Forum at the OECD, my family and I recently moved to a small village in the province of Fryslân in the Netherlands. The contrast between one of the world’s biggest urban agglomerations and our tiny village of 200 is obvious. But I wasn’t prepared for…
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Site/life update: New directions …
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The older I get, the more sporadic these site updates become. My single reader will be relieved to know that this time around I’m not announcing a brand new WordPress theme. Although I admit that I recently began looking at alternatives to WordPress, including GitHub, before concluding that such an exercise would constitute an even…
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Les Fauves: Dress Ups!
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3 min read
Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Fauves are the best people!
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Check out this podcast if you’re into early-1990s OzRock nostalgia!
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Blocksy WordPress theme
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Yet another [d/dn] incarnation just dropped, y’all!
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It’s out there: ITF Transport Outlook 2023
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It’s out there! The 2023 edition of the ITF – International Transport Forum‘s Transport Outlook has just been launched at the ITF Summit in Leipzig! The Outlook is the ITF’s “flagship” publication, examining the impacts of different policy measures on 🌐 global transport demand and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the actions governments can take…
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Koji WordPress theme
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Let’s see how long this all lasts …
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Hej då, Sverige
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As always, the end comes sooner than you think.
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Things I will miss when I leave Sweden
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Skaka loss med Daidalos 4EVA
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Spark joy not war
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#amnotprocrastinating #amtinkering #mkoi?
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What do you call writing that’s neither fact nor fiction, and over in a flash? Flash faction, of course! Ehm, well … whatever the terminology (microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poetry), it’s a genre or set of genres I’ve tinkered with on and off over the years. My 2005 Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs project was essentially 40-odd…