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Category: Blogging

Day-to-day minutiae.

  • Where did the time go?

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    2 min read

    Well, actually, we had a baby.

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  • D/DN: Nu på svenska!

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    Nu kör vi, eller hur?

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  • Pimpin’ my portfolio

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    It gives me a certain comfort to have all of my works in the one location.

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  • Clearing out the linkrot

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    It stands to reason that a medium as subject to change as the Internet will, over time, exhibit signs of decay. In the case of a website that amalgamates posts from at least five other sites, and which has been online in one form or another since 2001, this decay manifests itself via linkrot, defined…

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  • Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe

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    Time to get back to basics.

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  • New site theme: Editor

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    D/DN is currently down for maintenance. Here’s why.

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  • Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)

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    My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.

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  • Ann Leckie: Provenance

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    I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Raadch trilogy, and Provenance is a worthy addition to her universe. I just wish the publishers had gone with a less shouty blurb/cover/testimonial approach. “POWER. THEFT. PRIVILEGE. BIRTHRIGHT.” is ridiculously over-the-top for what is essentially an introverted and subtle political-space drama!

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  • Simple

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    As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.

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  • Margaret Atwood: Hag-seed

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    Hag-seed (2016) is such a fun novel, and so well written. I think I may be finally ready to deep dive into the big ones: Alias Grace, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin … So much to read, so little time.

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  • I remember Australian music in the 1980s

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    This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!

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  • Pollenation

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    Sitting at home with the windows closed on the one and only summer day we will get in Sverige this year, bawling my eyes out watching an imaginary movie on the backs of my eyelids called Björkpollen II: Det kliande ögat av Sauron.

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  • Hittegods

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    16 November Left my phone on the bus this morning and realized how much of my so-called life is/was trapped in that stupid thing. Partly hoping that an honest Swede will have picked it up and handed it in to SL but also secretly hoping it is gone for good. Seems I’m locked out of…

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  • Eurovision 2015: Ah, Vienna!

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    Having watched the 2015 Eurovision final in its entirety, I would agree with the general observation that the entrants this time around were mostly lacking in the somewhat indescribable pizazz that is compulsory if you want to win.

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  • Cordite Poetry Review publishes its 50th full issue!

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    It’s really pleasing to see how Cordite Poetry Review has flourished since Kent MacCarter took the reins back in 2012. Kent has truly injected a new sense of energy to the journal, and has just published the journal’s 50th full issue, NO THEME IV, featuring 50 new poems edited by John Tranter and a whole swag of goodies including…

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