RIFF.REBELSOUL DEV

Illustration of a bird flying.

  • Jane Eyre, as by Irvine Welsh, by Me

    There wis no possibility ay taking a walk thit day. It were pissin wi rain thit further outdoor bummin aroond wis now oot ay the fuckin question. Ah wis glad ay it: Ah nivir liked long walks, especially in the fuckin cold: dreadful tae me wis the coming home in the raw twilight, wi frozen […]

  • Some People Are Gay

  • The Writers’ Madness

    Terry Pratchett: My wife wrote a little letter to the doctor saying, ‘You have to understand that an author in the throws of writing a book, which in Terry’s case means permanently, is in the throws of some kind of madness. They will become vague, preoccupied, they will look through you into the distance, they […]

  • Five minute poem

    Darling, let me plant a kiss upon thy lips; Not those; the ones which lay betwixt your hips; That scented bloom; beguiling flower, Where stirs the very root of our desire. Caress my lips with that moistened bud; Arouse the fire within my tired blood, I’ll softly plant my tongue within, For the harvest of […]

  • On writing

    From a mail I sent a while ago: You know, I know quite a few writers who can’t write. I don’t mean people who want to write, or people who’d like to be writers. I don’t mean those that just think they are, or are willing but unable. (That ten to the dozen.) I mean, […]

  • Alliteration: Boring, Conceited (Delightfully Entertaining)

    I started doing this before I realised how fun it was. I shall do it better next time: Am I an author, actor, artist? Apathetic alphabet acrobat? Better bloody believe it, buddy. But I bet I’d bore, braying banally, so I best belie blemished beliefs by being bitingly blithe, to be blasé. Crafting cool or […]

  • MeccanicoDG

    Here’s a interesting and stylish piece of engineering: The Meccanico DG by De Grisogono. It’s an entirely mechanical wind-up watch with both analogue and digital displays which runs on clockwork, not batteries. The LED-style display rotates 23 barrels to produce the effect. If anyone is feeling generous, I’d kinda like one –  a snip at […]

  • The ‘Pregnant Man’ and Gender

    My friend just made an interesting post about the “Pregnant Man” story. ‘[It’s] complete nonsense,’ he says, ‘Beatie is not a pregnant man […] the fact that Beatie has had her breasts removed does not make her a man.’ He goes on to say that, ‘Dennis Abner is not a tiger.’ This was my reply: […]

  • A Dream Within a Dream

    Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? […]

  • Icelandic Proverb

    Vin sínum skal maður vinur vera, þeim og þess vin. En óvinar síns skyli engi maður vinar vinur vera. To his friend a man a friend shall prove, To him and the friend of his friend; But never a man shall friendship make With one of his foeman’s friends.

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