Monthly Archives: January 2016

The Questionable Status of Dick’s ‘atband

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Sheila N

Remember that bit in “Beetlejuice”, when two of the main characters happened across “The Handbook for the Recently Deceased”? It would be lovely if such a handbook exists, although odds are I’ll treat it like I do most magazines: ie, … Continue reading →

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It is Margaret We Mourn for: a Poetic Blog

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Sheila N

“Margaret are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves like the things of man, You, with your fresh thoughts care for, can you?“ “Spring and Fall“, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1880) As a morbid adolescent, I fell in love with this poem … Continue reading →

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Pressing the Reset Button

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Sheila N

Warnings: Malcolm Tucker has entered the room … oh, & a sweary song about a dinosaur The reset button is the neutron-flow polar opposite of the big red button which must never be pushed. It’s the one which, in my … Continue reading →

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Jonah Got Right Pigged Off, When the Plant Died: a Poetic Blog

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Sheila N

I love titles: the book, poem, etc, kind. Faced with a selection of poems where one is named “Love”, and another is titled “The REM 125 to Cleethorpes” (1), there’s no question: I’d be on that poetic train. Strangely enough … Continue reading →

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The Pensioner, the Urn, & the Number 99 Bus

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Sheila N

Some short futuristic fiction to round off the season The Pensioner, the Urn, & the Number 99 Bus My list specifies Mr McNeely – Mr McNoFeely, she called him – but a footnote from our Deborah says that he retired … Continue reading →

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