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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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Farstaviken, Värmdö
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Another staycation post, on a place where I like to go for a walk but never swim.
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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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Netflix series request: ‘You’re Killing Me’
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You’re Killing Me, a gritty, eight-part murder mystery based on the true story of US indie rock band Pavement, and the band’s deadly feud with Mark E. Smith of The Fall, should really be streaming now on Netflix.
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Executive Orders
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1. Make broccoli delicious again.
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Gustavsberg, Värmdö
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This is more a post about staycations but it’s still travel, right?
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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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You have memories
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You have memories, sure, but then who doesn’t know where you live these days? Camping out in the wilderness until the controversy blew over seemed like a good idea at the time, of course, but that was before the anaesthetics kicked in and you lay there, boiling, and unable to feel the sweat rolling down…
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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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Three literary devices that really cheese me off
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If I had to write a complete list of all the things creative types do that really give me the jitches, I’d be here all day. So, in my own therapeutical interests, here’s three literary devices that cheese me off no end. What cheeses you off?
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Thomas Mann on Lubeck, harems and marzipan
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Now if anyone wishes to vent a little spite against me, or take a casual swipe at me, I can count on his bringing up my Lubeck origin and Lubeck marzipan. If some ill-wisher can think of nothing else, he invariably thinks of connecting me with comic marzipan and representing me as a marzipan baker.…
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You may recall that I’ve embarked on a massive project involving an analysis of the early Chris de Burgh albums—and specifically his lyrics. Given the scope of this project, my progress is slow, but steady. However, inevitably, choosing a new WordPress theme (in my case, the wonderful Lovecraft theme by Anders Norén) involves going through…
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포악: Atrocity
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In 2005 I travelled to Seoul to write a series of prose poems in PC Bangs (Korean Internet cafes) about imaginary cities. This one was originally called ‘imaginary cities: atro—’.