I got hooked onto Wilkinson through his first book of short stories, Memoirs of the Messed Up Minds, so when I found that his next book was to deviate from his dark sense of humour and somewhat taboo subject matter, I was a touch worried. This was, however, to be […]

… by reporting on his own murders.

The journalist, Vlado Taneski, is accused of raping, torturing and killing three elderly women in the south-western town of Kicevo.
Macedonian police began to suspect him after he included details in his reports that they had not made public.
Clever little sod.  Sick and desperate, but clever.

This is from the author of Atomised, which is apparently slap yourself stupid fantastic.  Where I can, I try to read the book after the one that made an author famous as I am interested in new writers but I have an allergy to hype.  I refused Firefly and Battlestar Galactica for months/years because of […]

Harvey, the headstrong and very ‘teenage’ labradoodle, has now had three dog training lessons now and just now we had a bit of a break through.  He’s managed to connect two commands, come and heel, into one fantastic response where he comes, turns on his own and sits close at your left side, facing the […]

In further tasteless news, we have this:
A street-sweeping truck has sucked a dog up through its bristles on a New York street, leaving its horrified owner holding nothing but the lead.

“It spun me around, and as it spun me around, I caught a last glimpse of her.
I was devastated. I was completely dumbfounded and shocked. […]

 A mother who was intoxicated during her labor at a Polish hospital gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the country’s adult drunk-driving limit.
That is one drunk baby.
Isn’t our world a special, special place?

Unknown artist, but found along with many others, here.
I’ve ended up writing the wrong thing this summer.  I wanted to write about my brother and got about 2k into it before it sort of fizzled out, then I started on a new transgressive piece that revolved around 3 housemates and got further, but again with […]

Photo by Luis Vasconcelos
The caption says, “An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March […]

I’ve never had a ‘favorite’ writer before, at least not in the sense of if for some reason I was being stuck there and I could only have one author’s set of books with me I could produce the name instantly.  I was introduced to Burroughs by my very good friend, and soon-to-be-published poet, Ian […]

An old story I seem to keep coming back to.

 
It never got easier to bury things.  Some things just never changed.  It was always crap earth in some way.  This was thick, sticky, clumping around the base of the spade and making it difficult to drive the metal back into the ground over and over.  […]