Category: General
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who are you trying to impress? McDonald’s Hopeland and skiffy diasporae
It’s yer man ADH, who else? “Space is dead”, sez he: The moon landing happened because capitalism and American empire actually had a rival. These forces had to prove they could outrace, outplan, and outspend communism and Soviet empire. It was probably the biggest PR campaign of all time, if you don’t count our bloated…
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the lesson of trees
To take a train north from Malmö in mid-October is a little like boarding a time machine, accelerating into the oncoming autumn. At the outset, the deciduous trees are only lightly touched with reds and russets, but with every mile travelled they blaze into orange and yellow, and later the ochres and burnt umbers of…
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cards on the table
… cards in your hand. That’s what you can expect to get the next time you meet me in person—because there ain’t much point in getting business cards printed unless you put them in people’s hands, right? (This logotype was designed for me a few years back by Bevin Richardson, a.k.a. ENSO. Nice to be…
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shelved
Well, would you look at that. For an assortment of reasons, but mostly happenstance, the vast majority of my fiction has been published in the US, and/or by fairly small presses. As such, I think this is the only time I’ve been able to just wander into a bookstore—my local bookstore, in this case, namely…
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cornucopia
Filing under “things to be thankful for”: A week’s worth of fruit’n’veg for 88SEK—roughly equivalent to 6.50GBP at current rates of exchange. The open market on Möllevångstorget in Malmö is, I’m told, essentially unique in Sweden; there are fancy “farmer’s markets” in other towns and cities, but no six-days-a-week outdoor trade in basic fresh produce,…