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18th November 2009: New coat, also old coat

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One day in the autumn of 1996, I bought a five pound bus pass that, in those days, enabled one to take buses all over the north-west. Since Kendal had a shoe factory, it was cheaper to take the bus…

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Posted in Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face

1st December 2008 44 Today

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Which seems like a nice round number. I went out for dinner with Rysmiel on Saturday, we went to Kashima and had some nice sushi and a delicious grilled hamachi neck. Last night I went out with Zorinth and his girlfriend to…

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Posted in My Books

23rd November 2008: The Bacchae

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Last night we went to see a production of The Bacchae at McGill. I’ve wanted to see The Bacchae since, oh, since I read The Mask of Apollo, so let’s call that an even thirty years. It’s not performed very…

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Posted in Theatre

18th August 2008: Epic Denver Trip Report

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Nobody knows all of this story but me. Parts of it are common knowledge, and other people know parts of it, but this is the story of a journey I took alone. It’s my story, and yet it isn’t a…

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Posted in Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face

24th July 2008: OMG, it’s full of tea!

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So, I think I’m awake enough to post about a funny thing that happened on the way home. I’m not very awake, mind you, but anyway. Bristol airport have unilaterally decreed that nobody is leaving there with more than one…

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Posted in Life as it blossoms out in a jar or a face, Whimsy

2nd May 2008: Fast and dirty fantasy names

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I’m expanding this from a comment in Naomi Kritzer’s journal. I thought I’d put it over here so I could save a link to it so I wouldn’t have to write it all out again next time I wanted it, because…

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Posted in Writing

9th March 2008 Arcadia

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SEPTIMUS: When we have found all the meanings and lost all the mysteries, we will be alone, on an empty shore. THOMASINA: Then we will dance…. Some things are worth making a little effort for. Other things are worth going…

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Posted in Human culture, Theatre

28th February 2008: The Industrial Ruins of Elfland

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I grew up in a post-industrial landscape. I didn’t know it, of course. I thought it was normal. It took me a surprisingly long time to see it. The South Wales valleys were empty until the industrial revolution, and then…

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Posted in Among Others

6th January 2008: My review of Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare’s Arthur

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Some time ago, Ken MacLeod asked me to write this review, and I did, and posted it on rec.arts.sf.written. This morning, on Ellen Kushner’s LJ, Kij Johnson was asking why Shakeapeare hadn’t written about Arthur, and I remembered it. I posted it…

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Posted in Theatre, Whimsy

4th January 2008: Ratcheting and POV

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There’s a thing that mechanical gears do, where each one has a little set of teeth, and each little tooth has to grip on one on the other gear to move the thing forward, and when they’re going they mesh,…

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Posted in Unfinished book stuff, Writing