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Read: Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young ★★★★ 📚
I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next.
Reads almost as it has been run right out with any editing. Jumps from topic to topic & across times, with occasional words to the reader. Follows a wide range of the author's experiences obsessions in a somehow really engaging way.
The Sunday Poem: Mineral by Kathleen Jamie | The Observer
I enjoyed reading this in the paper this morning.
Can’t say the same about the online edition despite having a subscription with “Unlimited access” there is an advert every stanza!
Read: One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad ★★★★★ 📚
Clearly, logically & beautifully written. I started collecting some of the most powerful quotes, but there is little that could be skipped. The focus on children, the author's own & those in Gaza, is so important.
Really impressed by the National Education Union’s general secretary Daniel Kebede on the T.V. today.
Victoria Park. First snowdrops I’ve seen this year and the earliest I’ve noted on this blog or uploaded to flickr.
In reply to #tdc5117 #ds106 SpaceTypeGenerator.
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Read: Extremophile by Ian Green ★★★ 📚
A note on Scrim’s eyes. He is proud of the eyes. (I’m proud of the eyes, baby, he is heard to say often.) Eye tattoos across the sclera with polarised something in them, micro-LED implants, he thinks, and his eyes shine and glow like the devil himself, if the devil himself followed a very western European late nineteenth-century vibe (which for Scrim he certainly does, baby).
Punks, biohackers, climate-collapse & eco-terrorism. London after societal collapse. A super villain, a mole person, breathless thrills & violence with a little nature writing thrown in. A bit too sweary & headlong for me.
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