Archive for January, 2006

• 31
  He’ll probably spend it on drink
• 30
  ‘if’. ooh. That’s a nice one.
• 27
  Oddly, I did just watch an episode of Quantum Leap
  At last! My Dylan/Ashbery/Dollar/Human League/Jackson Mash-Up can be finished!
• 26
  Ah, But What if I tell it from the bum’s perspective?
• 24
  Baked you a cake, but you were dead, so I ate it
  Can we push one of his books into amazon uk’s top 100,000?
• 21
  The Essential Dignity of Literature
• 18
  Updated Stories Number One - The Black’n'White Bird Did Well
• 17
  Much Easier to find copies of The Bounder
  Glad you could make it
• 16
  An Assessment of Every Single Nobel Prize Winner Ever, Excluding Laureates of Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Medicine and Peace — Introduction
  So, There’s a Mountain, and it’s Magic… No, Stuck
  Also Noted, 5-11-2004
  I Could Get On Late Review! Then I’d Show That Paulin!
  I’ve Just Joined a Book-Burning Group
  Field Report: Famous Seamus, Scarey Carey, and an un-chic Greek
  Judging the Booker by its Covers, Part Two
  Judging the Booker by its Covers, Part One
  J.T. Leroy at Foyles
  Hornby, I Promise I’ll Leave You Alone. Soon. Maybe.
  The Oxford Literary Festival: Kazuo Ishiguro
  Warlock, by Oakley Hall
  Saluting Colin Macinnes
  Who’d McEwan have to fuck to get those reviews?
  Greil Marcus Reads at the Boogaloo
  Patrick Hamilton
  A Literary Fiction How-To
  Let’s Take This Upmarket: Mary Jane vs. Jen
  Notes on a Big Fan of Lord of the Rings
  HOOOOOORNNNNNNBY!!!!! (Stop Lying)
  I Said, “STOP LYING HORNBY!”
  Stop Lying Hornby
  Slightly Dull Things Samuel Johnson Said On This Day In History - 10th November
  If Only He’d Lived to See an Aibo
  Yuh. Right. Next You’ll Tell Me Duran Duran were Inspired by Burroughs.
  Soap, Soap opera…
  I Hope The Council haven’t Switched to Care In The Community
  Yes, I’m Sure I Would Enjoy Tuesdays With Morrie
  I’m Also Preparing a Gopher Version of The Anatomy of Melancholy
  Slightly Dull Things Samuel Johnson Said On This Day In History - 21st September
  ***** A Must For Anyone Who Enjoys Calvino and Borges!
  Also Noted, 15-9-2004
  More on The Book Babes
  Sitting Duck!
  Give Me a Zed! From Hazlitt’s ‘Chapter on Editors’
  Not That I Read Any of Them
  Making The Booker More Fun
  Next Year, Booker Longlist to Compete For ‘Pink Slips’
  Of the Three, They’re Least Interested in ‘Rum’
  Sir Thomas Browne
  Now Say “Garden of Three King Paths”
  Amis Supplementary
  Nicholas Lezard on BS Johnson
  Paulin on Milton
  I, on the Other Hand, Am Tempted by the Fashionable Quays
  Do Not Engage in Hand-to-Hand Combat. He knows Kung Fu
  Great Peeping Toms of English Poetry
  Ricks is over Dylan: Now Claims ‘Mash Good’
  Maybe I Should Have Gone for McGonagall, like Everyone Else
• 15
  While You’re at Bloomsday, I’ll be seeing your Wife.
  Ricks to Lecture: I Pity the Poor Listener
  It shouldn’t be allowed
  Inaugural Lecture: “Mighty Hunters Before The Lord: Milton’s Nimrod & Quinn the Eskimo”
  But I Still Want Keats and Yeats on My Side
  Give me an ‘A’! No, Not You, Paulin.
  Jim Dodge: Not Fade Away
  Luke Sutherland, David Mitchell
  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: So You Think You’re Human
  Francis Wheen: Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 26 March 2004
  The Lit Idol Final: March 15, 2004
  Next Week: Bananaman saves Aberfan
  Field Report 1: John Gray at Borders
  Give me an Aitch!
  What Do You Mean ‘Needs More Dogs’?
  And another thing, Orwell
  I’d Do Madeleine Bassett
  Just Ignore The Hitler-Liking Period
  He Should Set Up ‘Herzblog’
  For Grown-ups? Like Harry/Ron Slashfic?
  I Just Prefer ‘Xanthic’ to ‘Yellow’
  W.H. Smith’s: Begone Abomination!
  So, In Summary, I Should Be in Charge of Everything
• 14
  Kabalah with Britney and Madonna