Anecdote

Pissing In The Face Of The Hand That Helps You

De Nederlandstalige versie van dit bericht is te vinden op mijn Nederlandstalige site. The other week, I got into a huge digital fight with A. It involved WhatsApp name-calling, long e-mails full of arguments and blame-laying, fiery passion and icy reason, culminating in (hopefully temporary) termination of the friendship: that kind of fight. Thanks to […]

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Downs And Ups

So last night, I went and killed this entire website. Without having any kind of backups available. To make my predicament clear: there are movie reviews going back to 1999 on this site, blog entries spanning a dozen years, and a few hundred posts all-in, not to mention some 50 pages, and a painstakingly configured […]

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Just A Minute, Sir

De Nederlandstalige versie van dit bericht is te vinden op mijn Nederlandstalige site. The Big Blue Swedish Store has a web store these days, did you know? After having used their online presence for years for advertising their products only, but stubbornly refusing to sell the stuff anywhere but in their Big Blue Boxes, they are […]

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Tireless Driving

Last weekend, I drove to the tiny village of Jaulzy, France, for a four-day writing workshop with seven other english-language speculative fiction writers living in Europe. I’ll cover the workshop in another post. Here’s what happened when I tried to drive home on Tuesday.

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You Turn!

Had I lived in LA, I would have undoubtedly died in shooting incidents dozens of times over by now. As things stand, the only thing that suffers from events like the one this afternoon is my adrenaline gland and my faith in the human condition. On the upside, I permit myself a slight feeling of […]

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Cavity Caveat

At least now I know there is progression in the state of human affairs – at least in the dental aspect of said state. Let me give you a brief history of dental work done in my mouth over the last 32 years. As a child, I had a bunch of cavities. In 1982, the […]

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