american autumn

finally!

the last post

and that i guess will have to be that and this, more or less, the last blog post. nearly made it to seven years but not quite.

final scores on the doors were (in ascending order) claribel alegria, bertolt brecht, elma mitchell, william maxwell (hurrah!), carol ann duffy, pauline stainer and finally, the dark lord of them all, margaret atwood.

what's mediated the decision? too little time, too little motivation maybe? browsing back i have to say i'll miss the blog. of course i'll be about on the behemoth that is facebook but it's not the same. not as good, not as pleasant but kind of more useful. certainly i don't have the enthusiasm i once did. which isn't to say i'll never post on here again just that, if i do, it'll be a lot less frequent. i will however continue to respond to comments.

in the meantime thanks to everyone who's read, posted, followed or interacted with the blog in whatever fashion. it was a good run and there's plenty to look back over.

take care and switch off the lights on your way out.....

classic book covers

remastered....

there seems to be a lot of book covering remixing going on at the moment but these xmen ones are particularly well realised even if you don't know much about the comic

mikael aldo

this guy is only started taking photographs when he was fourteen! outstanding!

light fitting

changing the bulb might be finicky but i want me want of these!

george mackay brown

not every day you expect to come across a new story by george mackay brown but there's one here

chris akrigg

chris krigg shows how it should be done when the prancing pony mountain bike boys give up their suspension and their dropper posts, their addiction to wide bars and wrong sized wheels and do cycling as it should be done. *

*in fairness to the fragile egos of certain of the baggy shorted mob it should be pointed out that i'm a rotund fellow of a certain age who conforms to many a mountain bike stereotype (except i don't own an audi, work in i.t., don't need to stop every five minutes and have never, ever had a conversation about tyre suitability). also i should point out that every time chris akrigg is jumping a log or whatever i;d would be variously over the bars, headbutting a tree or otherwise floundering about on my backside.

cyclocross is the business tho.

trance anthems

one for the (not so) old schoolers

aphex twin

one of the more unusual and better aphex covers

john cale

proper brilliance

the slits

electrelane

genius

corduroy

arab strap

i can't just have one version of that. here's some music from home

bing ji ling

what, no posts for a while? ah but that's a story. anyway i'm getting into listening to cover versions this last few days so it's going to be a bit of a musical week. starting here...