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Friday, August 27, 2010

Unfit? Confined to a bath? No excuse!

Window of Just Books, Pydar Mews, Truro.

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In October 2006 I started an MA in Professional Writing. They seemed to think it was a good idea that we each write a blog. In October 2007, the course ended. Now I'm stuck with the thing.

(I'm not quite sure how this ended up being somewhere I post dubious fragments, and bad attempts at prose poetry, but these things happen I suppose).

Yet more of all this...

▼ 2010 (6)
- ► Nov 2010 (1)
- ▼ Aug 2010 (1)
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- ► Jun 2010 (2)
- ► Feb 2010 (2)

► 2009 (31)
- ► Dec 2009 (1)
- ► Nov 2009 (2)
- ► Sept 2009 (2)
- ► Aug 2009 (3)
- ► Jul 2009 (9)
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- ► May 2009 (5)
- ► Feb 2009 (3)
- ► Jan 2009 (2)

► 2008 (71)
- ► Dec 2008 (5)
- ► Nov 2008 (7)
- ► Oct 2008 (2)
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- ► Jul 2008 (4)
- ► Jun 2008 (2)
- ► May 2008 (5)
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- ► Jan 2008 (3)

► 2007 (51)
- ► Dec 2007 (2)
- ► Nov 2007 (3)
- ► Oct 2007 (2)
- ► Sept 2007 (4)
- ► Aug 2007 (1)
- ► Jul 2007 (8)
- ► Jun 2007 (5)
- ► May 2007 (1)
- ► Apr 2007 (8)
- ► Mar 2007 (6)
- ► Feb 2007 (7)
- ► Jan 2007 (4)

► 2006 (15)
- ► Dec 2006 (2)
- ► Nov 2006 (6)
- ► Oct 2006 (7)

And the same, but in label form

...or can it? (1)
[shrugs] (1)
2000 words and counting... (1)
40° (1)
a good notebook spoiled (1)
a mixed welcome (1)
a post about music that turned out not to be about music at all (1)
a slightly koan-like poem (1)
abject apologies (1)
absurdist graffiti (1)
achievements celebrated only by the lazy (and foxes) (1)
across the water (1)
Actually I probably shouldn't knock it - after all there's no reason people with haemmorhoids shouldn't have their own sport (1)
Actually I think I prefer the title 'Your memory cannot speak for the otters' but never mind (1)
Actually I've always quite liked cats (1)
all kinds of wrong (1)
an insurance claim waiting to happen (and other tenuous links between art and Jeremy Clarkson) (1)
and after Paul Restall... THE WORLD (1)
and not even a mention of someone being unseeded... (1)
and other signs of the coming Apocalypse... (1)
and so it begins... (hopefully) (1)
another homeless fragment (if it tries to sell you a Big Issue please be kind) (1)
another mistake made in public (1)
another rant (1)
Anyway it all went pretty OK... (1)
audio addiction (1)
Aung San Suu Kyi (1)
Been a while... (1)
blah (2)
blogpost as nonsense-gibbet (1)
book reviews that take a while to get to the point (1)
Books for the never-knowingly-relaxed (1)
buck passing (1)
Burma (1)
cereal-related pessimism (1)
charismatic megafauna (1)
Christian Voice (1)
Cornwall Library Service prepares to join the Axis of Evil (1)
dilemmas of the introverted (1)
do not tumbledry (1)
doomed attempts at passive consumption of an active medium (1)
ever so slightly published (1)
everyday stuff that can be improved by the addition of wire and tiny props (1)
Falmouth (2)
Font Row (nightly Arts programme in which a panel of guests is assembled to disagree about the typographical qualities of famous lines of text) (1)
former moonlighters of Falmouth (1)
Former Ultravox guitarist next on CNLA (now CRA apparently) hitlist? (1)
French election (1)
garlicky lies - maybe... (1)
general obliviousness (1)
general pointless trivia (1)
general wallowing (1)
Gordon Brown (1)
graffiti (civic minded and other) (1)
Guerilla gardening (1)
guilty or just poor? (1)
Heaven Knows I'm Mus Musculus Now... (1)
his red right hand? (background left) (1)
I am not a poet (more proof thereof) (1)
I came to Cornwall for the views (1)
I despair (1)
I probably need a better kiln (1)
I see wed people... (1)
I was even more gloomy and self-involved in my early 20s (1)
I wasn't great at Philosophy of Mind (1)
I wonder if there are any cults in Lunt? (1)
I've never been much of a tea drinker (1)
if 'Ledge Man' isn't a real series then it definitely should be (1)
ill-advised boasting (1)
inexplicable curses of the present Age: people who can't switch TV channels yet can afford legal representation (1)
invisiblogging (5)
Is it the Brummie accent that somehow makes it even worse? (1)
Is there a Short Ships race? (1)
it can't be two years already... (1)
it didn't start off being about Jeremy Kyle (or anything in particular) (1)
it's not really Jonathan Meades' fault - only that I had Birmingham on my mind (1)
Jefferson Perez vs. the Samurais (1)
jokes I may regret (1)
just accept it (1)
just ignore me (1)
kiln still in need of repair (1)
koalas form militia wing "just in case" (1)
Little Shop of Horrors (1)
lonely hearts (1)
meta-procrastination (1)
Mild Inconvenience of the Living Dead (1)
modern solutions for maximising one's personal capacity for distraction (1)
monkey terrorism (was it just me who was reminded of our meddling in the Middle East when reading one bit of that article?) (1)
more semi-hidden art (1)
moss graffiti (1)
mostly pointless (1)
mountains/molehills (losing perspective thereon) (1)
my blog and other animals (1)
my new favourite movie (flaws 'n' all) (1)
New depths of self-involvement (1)
no way to treat the elderly (1)
No. Really. I am. (1)
nonsense from my notebook (8)
Nothing. Again. (1)
Ob the Builder (1)
oddly poetic shop displays (1)
old news (1)
older news (1)
Olds (1)
One day I'll let it lie. Maybe. (1)
parental pragmatism (1)
passive-aggressive religio-nutjobs (1)
pitta patter (1)
places Intel have named chips after (but why?) (1)
places where I sometimes blog (1)
please groan quietly (1)
postmodernism: not unlike Stan Laurel (1)
prose poetry (2)
prose poetry (or whatever) (1)
pure undiluted idiocy (1)
Radio Flour (2)
ranting without provocation (1)
reality is not what it used to be (and other foes) (1)
Sarkozy (1)
scenes from The Codfather (1)
self-published bloggy books for charity (1)
semi-factual nonsense (1)
semi-hidden art (1)
sex scandals that just aren't (1)
shadows I have paid to see (1)
shed hierarchy (1)
slightly too long for Twitter (1)
small-town life (1)
sometimes bureaucracy unintentionally makes you smile (1)
songs that remind me of hypothetical people and beaches (1)
sort of true... (1)
SPOILER ALERTs that came too late (1)
still not really using these labels properly (1)
stuff no-one really needs to know (1)
tales of the unexpected (1)
tea cosies (1)
telly and films I haven't actually watched but have nonetheless decided to mumble about (1)
text and context (1)
The Afternoon of a Writer (1)
the Cornish equivalent of those kitsch flying ducks? (1)
the daddy-long-legs (futility thereof) (1)
the devil makes words for idle brains (1)
the disappointments of childhood (1)
The dream life of coffee shops (1)
the height of irrelevancy? (1)
the joys of idling (1)
the kiln is beyond repair (1)
the occasional absurd obscenity of socks (1)
the rantings of a hypocrite and coward (1)
the unexpected metaphysical dilemmas of beverage choice (1)
the weather seems to be OK today (he says tentatively)... (1)
the world is much stranger without headphones (1)
things I have got around to but mostly shouldn't have (1)
things I have sometimes blamed (1)
things I may try again when there's some more interesting news floating about in the world (1)
things not to do barefooted (1)
things not to write about on a postcard (1)
this desk ain't big enough for the both of us (and other rejected Sparks song titles - well actually just that one really) (1)
this is so much easier than actually writing stuff... (1)
This omelette tastes of gloom. And camembert. But mostly gloom. (1)
time wasting (yours and mine) (1)
try clicking the white space above (1)
tumbleweed moments (1)
Turn-and-stretch-and-splash-and... (1)
turning thought into action (yet another failure thereof) (1)
unexpected shoe blogging (1)
unintelligent design (1)
vaguely metaphysical whinging (1)
vulpine photography (1)
Was that almost optimistic? (Or was that just me?) (1)
wash dark colours separately (1)
well at least they're new... (1)
what could be more fun than a box of monkeys? (1)
what the 'L' (1)
Why do I write this rubbish? (1)
Wilfully disorganised (now if I could just find out who this Wilf character is... He's got A LOT of explaining to do) (1)
writer porn (1)
Xtranormal.com (1)
yes I also watched the one on Surrealism (1)
Yes. I know. Far too much time on my hands. (1)
yet another photo (1)
yet another thinly veiled excuse for my inveterate laziness (1)
yet more melancomic nonsense (1)
Yet more short prose about nothing (1)
You're Not The Only One (1)

The course they let me do

Some kind of administrative error, probably

A few of the blogs they made everyone else write. Some are even still active.

A Blog on the Landscape
Afloat in Falmouth
All About Liam
beyceyar
Due Faust From Hull
Duncan's World (re-abandoned)
emapple
For All You Little Scribblers
Holly
Holly again
Joe Bloggs
MA Student
MsAnnThrope
Singing lessons cancelled indefinitely
stick it in your own eye
The Blogs of Ryan
The Planet Ug
Thing to do in Falmouth when...
Under Duress

A few blogs not being written under duress (to the best of my knowledge)

Belletrist (MsAnnThrope reincarnated)
Bent Objects
Bill Posters
Bricklayer Playing the Piano
Cafe Hopcott
Cultural Snow
DC de facto
Faces in Places
Garfield Minus Garfield
Graham Linehan
James and the Blue Cat
Little People
Lucy Apple
Miss-Cellany
Parlez-vous moo?
Peckham2Paris
Quinquireme
Sean McManus's Blog
Stephen Fry
Superloner
Taiga the Fox
The Lucky Charm Blog
The Root of the Matter
What goes up...
Wild Cat Island

One for footie fans

If you've missed Match of the Day...

And for the music fans

Motel de Moka
The Hype Machine
Elbows (kinda like Hype Machine)
Red Ruin
Fonal Records' jukebox
The Leaf Label (click ENTER for downloads)
Lono Records (Falmouth)
SXSW 2006 (tape symbol = download)
SXSW 2007 (ditto)
SXSW 2007's audio-player thingy

Bottom of the barrel

Please stop scraping me.