That’s how I feel returning to blogging and podcasting and spoofing and block deleting spam after a great week in the south-west. Dartmoor and Cornwall were fabulous. It was like June. I can’t remember a better spring. But now I’m back, and cranking this blog machinery back to life. I had a great reply from [...]
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I just emailed a friend about a visit I made a week ago with Caroline, just before the VT killing, to Stourhead, a beautiful National Trust park near here. We saw a really strange incident. We were trekking round the grounds, and we reached the remote King Alfred’s Tower where there’s a Victorian folly, a [...]
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“His work was so nightmarish that, after he recited his poetry, just seven out of 70 students attended the next lecture.” – The Sun 19/4/2007 I rue the day I went to hear Sueng Cho the nightmare poet. His work was so nightmarish No nightmare could compare. His subject matter Was not to my taste, [...]
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I just found out that the poet Nikki Giovanni taught Cho in 2005, and was so alarmed by his behaviour that she asked guards at the US campus to watch over her when he was in class. According to The Sun, “She said his writing contained images of murder and rape. His work was so [...]
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In today’s online version of The Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s piss poor and biased, right-wing rag, I spotted a crucial bit of misreporting of the storyline of the play Richard McBeef by Cho Seung-Hui, the VT Killer. In Crazed Killer Sent Shocking Vid by Emily Smith, US Editor, she says, “One play told of a 13-year-old [...]
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I just read the plays supposedly written by the VT killer, Cho Seung-Hui. They’re not great works obviously, but I was surprised by them. It seems Cho was getting a kick out of writing, which is really sad because writing is fun. I’ve taught creative writing. I have an MA in Creative Writing. I’ve been [...]
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I wrote and produced a satirical podcast this morning and posted it on Hold It Up For Ridicule, see My Satire above. I’d been thinking about the careful rock romantic image created for Pete Doherty by the music biz, and I wanted a different angle on the usual miserable treatment Doherty gets in the media. [...]
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