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]
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Serendipity? Well, sort of. And enough to make me chuckle or think. I’ve been doing a chunk of thinking lately, so perhaps we’ll just stick with the chuckle.
I was browsing the infoweb this afternoon, and read this
by Terry Eagleton about William Blake and, to a lesser extent, (take deep breath) Gordon Brown, which I thought was pretty interesting, and then I went to the same newspaper’s music page and saw this headline:
Amy Winehouse cancels rest of tour dates for 2007.
I’m not particularly interested in Amy Winehouse, but it was the next bit that caught my attention:
Singer says she is unable to continue while her husband is in prison: 'I can't give it my all on stage without my Blake'
And there are witty things to be said, but you can probably figure them all out for yourselves.
Serendipity? Well, sort of. And enough to make me chuckle or think. I’ve been doing a chunk of thinking lately, so perhaps we’ll just stick with the chuckle. 
I’m not particularly interested in Amy Winehouse, but it was the next bit that caught my attention:
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