TIL: “West Brit” and some other FB fun and complaints
(This was originally supposed to go in an episode of Under My Skin a couple weeks back, but it ended up being a 20 minute rambling bit and I opted to just slash it all out instead. Still, thought I might post the notes part of it here.) So…...
Book of the Week (plus side tangents, of course!): John Taylor’s In the Pleasure Groove
So, as mentioned/joked about on the first couple episodes of the new Under My Skin podcast, I recently finished John Taylor’s autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran. Well, let’s have a more fair look than I gave it in the podcast, hmm? (In my defense,...
Snow… ugh… also some notes from watching old Tony Awards, Irish taxes, etc.
Dia duit. Just finished the Irish 101 course from Dublin City University and about to start Irish 102 next week. Both are free through futurelearn.com, which is good for those of us who might well have a little Scottish in us mixed with the Irish and hence don’t want...
Pop up books, pop up bulbs, and a whole lot of republishing posts and podcasts
Where to start this week… a lot of my “work” time was spent right here or on related sites. I spent all evening Thursday uploading more than 100 Zamo the Destroyer episodes to my Soundcloud after doing the unlimited storage space upgrade. I had had the first 97 episodes...
Careful what you write about
PSA: Never write about someone you hate, because you might accidentally find yourself liking them. Especially if you do your research, which you really should. The first episode of that weird sitcom/web series thing I’m working on (referenced in the last blog) has the main character, Nick (an aging...