The 2012 Olympics are over. If you weren’t in the UK you might not have been aware of just how transformative these two weeks were. That I’m even talking about it is evidence enough. Like many of my geek and writer friends I’ve often found myself in the position of fighting against the popular attention…
Category: journalism
BitchBuzz: Are We Getting Nicer?
Well now, don’t go getting your hopes up: it’s just my latest column — Is the World Becoming Nicer? (Probably not) People around the world watched and cheered as the Chilean miners were freed, one by one, from their underground prison. I was surprised to find my friends, normally hard-hearted cynics, dabbing away tears as…
Publication: The Last Ant
My short humour piece “The Last Ant” is up at Wild Violet, the literary magazine that also published the even more esoteric piece “Corrections to the Rules of Fimble Fowl (for 3 players or 4),” the semi-true/semi-autobiographical piece “Me and Margery Kempe” and the MLA-inspired flash fiction story “Wixey” (bonus points for identifying the words…
BitchBuzz: Sic Semper Baconis
Hola from New Orleans! Of course I need to let you all know that my latest piece for BitchBuzz is up and it’s all bacony goodness. Down here at PCA things are jumping. We had a long day getting here, but we had plenty of time to catch up with Miss Wendy and check into…
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