Again, Twitter has inhibited my desire to write more frequently and freely on this blog. A lot of the more spontaneous situations I encounter tend to end up on there now instead of being stored up in my head and regurgitated on here later in the week. Hopefully, I’ll still manage to find the odd [...]
Posts under ‘Books’
Aaarrrr Jim Lad. What be this RSS ye speak of?
I’m reading Treasure Island. Nothing unusual there. In my life, I’ve probably read it a few times, albeit mostly as a child. So what’s different this time? Well, this time I’m reading it online using DailyLit. I discovered DailyLit in the way I discovered a lot of things – via Stumbleupon and it’s very cool. [...]
There’s a guy drinks in The Marksman swears he’s Elvis
I was on my way out to the airport yesterday in the car and passed along Duke Street in Leith. Standing outside The Marksman Bar having a fag was Elvis. Not THE Elvis. An impostor. He was standing there getting what looked like a Superking fag down his neck. All wig, shades and jumpsuit. In [...]
This Train is My Life/Signing away the royalties
Sleeping towns joined together By the steel of the rails Parallel lines Parallel lives I’ve booked another two train journeys today. I’m on holiday from work next week but the two following weeks will see me spend the majority of my time on one train or another as I travel around the country giving training [...]
Writers, hoors and junkies
It seems that my writing was good enough for the Scottish Book Trust. My short story/memory piece “The Day The World Failed To End” has been added to their website. From reading the small print, any of these stories could be broadcast or printed in the future. Maybe this scrambled collection of poetic license, half [...]
Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show/End of an Era
I started reading Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” yesterday. I’ve read it before and thoroughly enjoyed it but was inspired to read it again after watching a creative writing podcast where the author described it as one of the books which inspired him the most. It’s as brilliant as I remember it. Bradbury [...]
