January 2010
18 posts
Gibson Posts..
I found my first son’s name in the excellent Neuromancer - so I’m trawling Gibson’s books and posts for more baby name inspiration. My husband thinks our firstborn (Finn) is named after the mythical Irish poet warrior of the Fianna. I’m not sure he’d appreciate the certainly criminal, and definately obtuse character of The Finn that appears in all three of...
William Gibson on writing and Drug Use
Leary (Timothy) once told me that he thought that the best single piece of advice he could give to a writer was to either write stoned and edit sober, or vice versa. For me, functionally and organically, composition and revision are aspects of one process, territories on a continuum. The need to chemically define two individual states seems anything but a shortcut. The journey out from baseline...
Why William Gibson Doesn't Write Short Stories
Good ones are to novels as bonsai are to trees. Might as well go ahead and grow the tree. It�s easier to pay the rent with trees
(Jan 2003)
UNICEF Candlelight Vigil For Children of Haiti -...
Calling Dublin Tumblrs:
This Tuesday, 19th of January, UNICEF are holding a (non-denominational) candlelight vigil in Christchurch Catherdral at 5pm - to show that our thoughts are with the victims of the Haitian Earthquake.
Nearly one week on, there are over 3 million people in need of humantiarian assistance, almost half of them children. The vigil will start at 5pm and candles will be...
Tumblarity is Dead!
How lovely.
Friday Confession
I have hidden all the razors round our way as with a week’s worth of stubble, my husband starts to look like Dr. House. He doesn’t find this complimentary. How does one explain?
Letting the mini-brain out for a snow day..
A small part of a woman’s mind becomes separate right before childbirth. It wanders off on its own little buzz as the main brain copes with daily life. This is the part of her mind that realises it is imperative that the curtains must be taken down for the first time ever and professionally laundered, and that the insides of taps must be poked clean. This is the part of her brain that...