WAS my Blog (Hey! I’m not really a blog I’m a magazine - but not your usual sort of) Magazine. BLOGZINE. It's stopped being anything now, as of April 9, 2008.
But what is online stays online, and what's here is what happened while it was happening. The Chinese above, in Pinyin, is huānyíng, and it means “Welcome” and it’s meant. The girl (pictured) is my television lawyer, just in case. E&D is (or was) a mix of poetry & reviews and sometimes charmingly gentle rhubarb (sometimes with hot custard); it has a heart of rolled gold & the word ‘acerbic’ (is that related to ‘cynical’?) doesn't come into it. There are music reviews too, of gigs at the local music halls. This bit was on hold for a while because I was in China for two years, but now I'm not, though I'm going back soon. Anyway, everything here is all a kind of mysterious (I’d like to say it’s sensuous but it isn’t) zone of gentle & benign happiness (whatever the hell 'happiness' is), where headaches disappear & people are friends, & your shoes never need cleaning, & I hope you enjoy it.
This is a re-designed site, launched in October 2006. You can view the original website, and all the stuff published there, by clicking here.
Oh, & if you want to find out about my poetry, please go to my Home-From-Home which is a site almost as heavenly as this one.
E&D is no longer accepting submissions of work for publication.
Remember That I Love You by Kimya Dawson
Sample track: Loose Lips [Listen]
Kimya Dawson features heavily on the "Juno" soundtrack, a soundtrack that's as wonderful as the movie. This LP is ok, too. It gets a little trying in places, but it's generally ok.
Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sample track: More News From Nowhere [Listen]
This site is best viewed using your eyes & brain, not necessarily in that order, & also the browser called Firefox.
Slip this site into your newsreader. (I have no idea what this means, actually, but I'm told it works, so if you know what to do please do it.) [What is RSS?]
There are some poems at Steven Waling's website you might be interested in. I can't say they're new because they're not, but they are new insofar as they've never seen much of the outside world before now.
And I don't think this is any sort of omen, but as I was typing this entry the building shook, twice inside a couple of minutes..... people are out of their rooms, and busy phoning each other and checking things out, because 2 minutes ago we just had a goddam earthquake. A small one, admittedly, but an earthquake is an earthquake..... on Boxing Day, too. What's God up to?
POSTSCRIPT: January 5th
Those of you who read Earthquake News or subscribe to the Seismologists' Newsletter will know that this was actually a pretty big earthquake off the coast of Taiwan. It damaged undersea communication cables, and as a result internet access here has been severely disrupted. Our usually crap service has gone into crap-overdrive, and we've been unable to get to anything outside China apart from e-mail. Things seem to be getting back to normal, but it's still not good. It took me 2 days to get Sandra Tappenden's poem online. But at least my building is still standing.
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