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Idiom Zero: July 2015
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In the Night Garden. Simon watched Mum drive away. She reached the gate and disappeared left. Behind him Dad and the man, David, the man’s name was David, shouted in unison with the crowd on TV. He played in his room; then outside with the dog until it began to rain. Dinner was crumbed fish fillets and oven fries. 8220;What did you do today, Simon? 8221; asked David. 8220;Nothing.”. 8220;Hey Simon, guess what? David’s a policeman,” said Dad. Simon looked up in alarm. 8220;All yours, mate.”. His only gues...
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Idiom Zero: May 2012
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The Age of DeVito. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Age of DeVito. Gerry and the Berg. 44 - my novel. 169; Scott Howard. HTML pimping - aodhan.
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Idiom Zero: December 2011
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Veni, vidi, vici. Great news. As of December 15, Operation Iraqi Freedom, otherwise known as the Iraq War, is officially over (we won). As part of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ can give itself a big pat on the back here. We, and the forces of Western Democracy, have done bloody well. In summary we were in a bad situation back in 2003 when the whole thing kicked off. Osama bin Laden and his Terrorist Army were pretty much in charge of everything in. Even worse, some guy on a desk in the. 8211; all that m...
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Idiom Zero: September 2012
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Life in the Old Dog Yet. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Life in the Old Dog Yet. Gerry and the Berg. 44 - my novel. 169; Scott Howard. HTML pimping - aodhan.
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Idiom Zero: October 2013
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The bees are dying. They’ve died off before, but not in my lifetime. As far as we know, their deaths aren’t related to climate change, but it feels like that. It feels like an intimation of the sadness I felt when I read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And realised all the animals had died. Pathogens – a high percentage of beehives can become infested with the Varroa destructor. Is also thought to be a likely culprit in many hives collapsing. Larva is to be fed royal jelly; introducing a new queen e...
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Idiom Zero: July 2012
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I’ve previously posted. About my desire to witness or experience something paranormal; about the loneliness of being Scully in a world of Mulders. So surely, with the ubiquity of the internet and the bottomless well of belief that this taps into, I should have been presented with something odd by now. With all those UFOs in the night sky, coupled with the millions of people walking around with a camera built into their phone, surely a few shots should have gone viral by now? Well – almost. On 12/4/2006, ...
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Idiom Zero: February 2014
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The desert is in my thoughts. Arid nature: the barchan dune; the thorny devil. Desert culture: the West, the Outback, Islam. That house where Levon Helm lives in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The tombs of Ereth-Akbe. Walt, burying his money. I still haven’t seen Lawrence of Arabia. Is vastly sublime. We crossed the border from. Then, around a foothill of. Where immense rocks have been scoured to sculpture by the wind. I climb their flanks, quickly breathless in the thin air. That night I leave...
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Idiom Zero: November 2014
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How to write a campfire scene. How not to write a campfire scene. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How to write a campfire scene how not t. Gerry and the Berg. 44 - my novel. 169; Scott Howard. HTML pimping - aodhan.
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Idiom Zero: April 2012
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Remember When the Whole Street Got Together and Killed the People in Number 37? The Holocaust holds a fascination for many people. I am one of them. Up until recently this has manifested as an interest in the technical aspects, and in the grisly details, of killing somewhere between 11 and 17 million people; also in the details of life in a concentration camp. These interests are satisfied most fully by Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man. And in the testimonials of the members of the Sonderkommando. Hungary e...
