Hot Doggerel: An Address to Shakespeare
[Today's unlovely slice of hot doggerel is served up (stinking & steaming) by guest-poster, Tuppenceworth stalwart, and occasional...
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Hot Doggerel: Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds
The interweb may often be an ugly, querulous and hate-filled place, but one of its undeniable beauties is this. No matter how outré...
Hot Doggerel: The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God
Like most (unintentionally) "bad art" (define those words how you will) – bad verse pulls its audience in at least two directions....
Dreadful Thoughts: The Abysmally Unexpected & Grotesquely Unbelievable
January – as the fella said – is a gelid month. A hiemal, brumal, dismal and tenebrous month.
A month when the dankest...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 13: The Nature of the Evidence
Suffragette. Modernist innovator. Paddler in the turbulent "stream of consciousness" (a phrase she allegedly coined). May Sinclair...
Dreadful Thoughts: Edward, There’s Something in the Bed
Right. Enough of this summer (such as it is) lark. Enough flip-flopping about suggestively licking 99s. Enough gambolling through...
Manky Toy Monday: Enlighten Children on a Brains
Oh passionate fans of bootleged tat, please forgive me. It's been six full (or empty) months since I brought you any Manky Toy badness....
God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud
Of all the many wild 'n' wacky notions entertained and promoted by orgainsed religions, few can be as amusingly bonkos as the idea...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 12: “The Shadow” & “Man-Size in Marble”
In the build up to this week's E. Nesbit-fest, several punters (childhood Nesbit fans all) have mentioned to me that they were barely...
Dreadful Thoughts: A Double Dose of Nesbit
After an enjoyable week spent discussing terrible slimy yokes in bunks and grimly determined brutes with small heads, we now turn...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 11: The Upper Berth
Though he was (in his day) prolific,1 popular, and commercially successful – F. Marion Crawford's posthumous "literary star"...
Dreadful Thoughts: Distractions, Apologies, Crawford
Update 09/04/09: By an odd, but happy, coincidence today is the 100th anniversary of F. Marion Crawford's death. Uncanny stuff.
Update...
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 10: The Inmost Light
Welsh Anglo-Catholic occultist. Member (briefly) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Avowed anti-materialist. Inspirer of everyone's...
The Return of the Son of the Dog of Dreadful Thoughts
Penury? Ruin? Weeping and gnashing of rotten teeth? Corpses putrefying in the streets – their strewn entrails being slurped...
Pissing on Bishops: 21st Century Obscenity & the State of the Nation
Obscenity. Profanity. Transgression. All these lovely things have been much on my mind of late. Not entirely sure why.
It may have...
