Lying with Memes
For all of those who have looked at those cute/clever pictures and a few word things on the internet – and forwarded the link… (the picture’s a link) can I recommend this.
View ArticleAnd it is only the giving…
That makes you what you are…” (Wond’ring Aloud, Jethro Tull) This is not intended as a homily, or a ‘holier-than-thou’ (because I am not) but a curious observation. Some people are born (or made into...
View ArticleJoy Cometh with the Mourning
(yes, the picture is a link, if you buy via it we get extra from Amazon, and it costs you no extra.) I am known, principally, as a writer of Science Fiction and Fantasy. To a lesser extent perhaps as …...
View ArticleMakers and breakers
You can find a new guest post here on L. Jagi Lamplighter’s Superversive Blog
View ArticleA little Bolg
A little snippet from the WIP, where a Bank – or its minion – has swindled two retired little old ladies out of their life savings. Unfortunately they are retired fertility goddesses, and have called...
View ArticlePower, Bullying and ‘isms’
It’s been a while since I wrote up one of my ‘Philosophy behind my stories’ posts to bore everyone rigid with. So if you have insomnia… help is at hand! One of the current memes being aggressively...
View ArticleTOM
A new e-book is up! The picture is a link – Tom is a cat in trouble. The worst possible kind of trouble: he’s been turned into a human. Transformed by an irascible old magician in need of a famulus …...
View ArticleDave Freer’s Mailing list
Given that I am to marketing what Godzilla is to wristwatch repair, I’m doing something incredibly foolish here. The one promise I can make is I am unlikely to bother you very often – but if you enjoy...
View ArticleA new serfdom
On money and negative interest rates.(you can read about this on WSJ at a fee, or Bloomberg, or Zero Hedge (which I admittedly take with a pinch of salt) for free.) Hmm. Harvard. As one of my friends...
View ArticleUnder the weight of parasitism
We have many ‘isms’ out there. Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Feminism, Malapropism… for a start. The problem with all of them – Ok, maybe not the last, is that no matter what they claim...
View ArticleTo be sure it is Friday night.
‘give the kids a few Bob, After all sure it is Friday night. Ah, how could I tell her I was out of a job, from now on things were going to be tight’ -YESTERDAY’S MEN, CELTIC THUNDER What was that...
View ArticleQuamdiu se bene gesserit
‘As long as he shall behave himself well` It must have been a source of great amusement to Frank Herbert – or at least I hope so. This was a common Latin clause in the commissions given to various...
View ArticleOn the road to nowhere
Once upon a time there was a little farmer who lived down a dead-end little country road – appallingly full of ruts and potholes. He’d inherited a little farm – too small to make a living, and worked...
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