Work In Progress

Added on 27 November 2008

I’m working on one of those eleven minute songs that certain types of people use to close a cd. My influence on this is, of course, Dylan. He closed consecutive albums in the mid-60’s with Desolation Row and Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands, each of them eleven minute tracks. His next album...

Monkfish Cowboy - The Story So Far...

Added on 26 November 2008

This is how the movies work, or don’t work, as the case may be. Five years ago I was out to dinner with some friends in London. There was monkfish on the menu. One of the guys at the table - we’ll call him James - suggested that no one should order the monkfish, because they needed to be...

The Jigsaw Man

Added on 25 November 2008

When I first started writing I used to fill the gaps between splurges of creativity by doing jigsaws. It was therapeutic and very positive for the creative process. Keeps you occupied, but allows you to think about something else at the same time. Quite why at the time, as a young married couple, we...

And On The Sixth Day The Lord Created Football

Added on 24 November 2008

Two of Two had a football tournament yesterday. He regularly plays in football tournaments, so this wasn’t unusual in itself. The odd thing was that this tournament was presented by agents of God. Everything seemed to be fairly normal before the start. Hundreds of kids on the charge, coaches m...

Bloody Murder

Added on 21 November 2008

The Amazon page for the new edition of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson now has the Search Inside facility added, so anyone wanting to see an example of the New ImprovedTM text, can read the first chapter. Although, I guess you’d be hard pushed to spot the difference, unless you had the ori...