Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • duolingoing, duolingone

    Have just noticed that Duolingo have mothballed their entire discussion forums at some point over the last few weeks, and have even gone so far as to nuke their announcement and explanation of their doing so. This explains with hindsight the increasingly terse and obfuscatory (not to mention diminishing) input to said forums from their…

  • en kall dags fältarbete

  • 05APR22 / accessions

  • it’s too big and they are a lot harder to play than they look

    I wouldn’t describe myself as a Nick Cave fan; I know far too many folk who are deeply into one or more of his various phases of work to claim that I’m anything more than aware of his position in the cultural landscape. (It probably dates me pretty clearly if I note that, for me,…

  • changing phases

    I seem to have gotten myself published again, in the fiction qua fiction domain*. Talk about TOC imposter syndrome… I had no idea I’d be appearing alongside that roster of names! (Click through above to see it in full, but it includes Corey J White, Eugen Bacon, Paolo Bacigalupi, Greg Egan, Simon Sellars, Cat Sparks,…