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Éric Poindron’s Étrange (*) Questionnaire. Discovered at the Weird Fiction Review. (*) Bizarre, extraordinary, singular, surprising. Le Robert Dictionary 1 – Write the first sentence of a novel, short story, or book of the weird yet to be written. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Dark Lord in posession of a plot to destroy the [...]

This poem almost feels like Richard Gardner wrote it. I'm a good friend and not having read the orig ...
  • 2009-05-01 22:41:28
    That's really beautiful, I'll have to look him up.
  • Kat
    2009-04-21 21:53:39
    I loved this one. Especially, "It is the beating heart of weirdness and fantasy." Well put.
  • 2009-04-19 08:52:31
    So good to hear your voice! And Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" was my favourite short story back in ...
  • 2009-04-08 10:20:10
    I gave up trying to argue that long ago. Sigh.
  • 2009-04-08 01:35:50
    Oh, that is just fantastic! Congrats and good luck, hope it goes swimmingly. (Also ... you are now ...
  • 2009-04-01 23:33:34
    I'm sorry, Megan - I truly didn't mean to piss on your Nic Cage crush. I like him in Fast Times at R ...
  • Kat
    2009-03-31 23:50:38
    Thank God the instructors could cook. And so could we. I sort of feel like we should send a squid-fr ...
  • 2009-03-31 15:04:59
    If I hadn't experienced Canyon Vista first hand, the idea of a $1000 Whole Foods gift certificate wo ...
  • 2009-03-31 07:25:52
    For me, it was Matchstick Men. I loved him in that movie.
  • 2009-03-31 07:23:42
    Hey, at least there's a Trader Joe's. TJ's was my savior. When I got home, I couldn't figure out w ...
  • 2009-03-31 01:51:52
    Pack two ... and some vegetables ... pots and pans ... ... it would probably be best just have your ...
  • 2009-03-30 18:06:01
    We forgive him because he's a fucking Coppola! Oh, but we don't easily forgive Sofia Coppola for "T ...
  • 2009-03-30 12:40:48
    Yes. Why is this the case with Nicholas Cage. He has spent a decade turning out ever more shody Holl ...
  • 2009-03-30 06:19:47
    I have to admit to an odd, movie-going crush on Nicholas Cage. For some reason, I'm convinced that h ...
  • 2009-03-30 01:56:12
    As Americans, we like seeing things blow up, but it's hard to get satisfaction from an explosion whe ...
  • 2009-03-27 18:05:56
    "Fall prey" instead? Excuse me for butting in.
  • 2009-03-25 21:57:19
    If you've built up an audience (eg via a blog or on- or off-line networking) and have a marketing pl ...
  • [...] Speculative fiction author Damien G. Walter discusses the wisdom of self publishing in his po ...
  • 2009-03-25 19:22:20
    Great post. Each new sober-minded post about self-publishing helps people to understand its advanta ...
  • 2009-03-25 14:41:09
    I self-pubbed my first novel and don't regret it - what's crucial is to be clear what your aims are, ...
  • [...] Damien G. Walter ponders the question To self publish or to not? [...]
  • 2009-03-24 15:31:32
    Whether you self-publish or not, you're up against marketing budgets, focus groups and a market and ...
  • [...] To self publish or not [...]
  • 2009-03-19 22:23:54
    I read the title ‘Brokeback Tales’ but Thought ‘Brokeback Mountain. I thought you were going t ...
  • 2009-03-19 22:18:43
    I’m straight as straight can be but I think if I meet Neil I would have to kiss him square on the ...
  • 2009-03-19 17:17:41
    Neil was outta sight. I don't think I've ever seen him wearing a white shirt. What a mind screw! H ...
  • 2009-03-17 10:40:08
    Interesting. If a story is broken backed because the author doesn't have enough skill, might it be p ...
  • 2009-03-17 07:52:36
    I like the stuff you say here. Am really tired, and so not capable of saying anything much more cohe ...
  • 2009-03-16 00:35:16
    I think I might be scared to read Solstice again. Its tough to revisit stories from your youth, so m ...
  • 2009-03-16 00:14:12
    I just got ahold of Mirroshades via Dano (see comment above), and "Solstice" was the first story I r ...
  • 2009-03-13 20:55:49
    That's actually rather renewed my interest in the sequels to Altered Carbon Dano, I had rather uncha ...
  • 2009-03-13 19:54:04
    There's no shame in hating Snow Crash, I don't think. No shame in hating Stephenson, really--the ma ...
  • 2009-03-13 13:08:11
    Altered Carbon is definitely classic cyberpunk, to be honest, that's what I liked about it in part. ...
  • 2009-03-13 12:48:16
    OK, I'm going to come clean and say it. I can't get into Morgan. Maybe I should try Broken Angels, b ...
  • 2009-03-13 09:22:34
    Mmm...I also have thoughts on cyberpunk being dated, and Richard Morgan especially. But alas, I hav ...
  • 2009-03-13 09:19:54
    Right there with ya on "Mirrorshades," Damien. A friend actually posed me the question last night o ...
  • 2009-03-11 17:24:20
    I'm familiar with Charlie Stross, I've read some of his short fiction plus his Cthulhoid stuff, as w ...
  • 2009-03-11 17:15:55
    Max Cairnduff - There is a lot of good stuff but not much of it bits the shelves of Waterstones. Cha ...
  • 2009-03-11 16:50:37
    This is the sort of anthology that would have me nervously putting it back in place on the shelf in ...
  • 2009-03-11 16:19:35
    By way of follow-up, I followed your links to refresh myself, I always rather liked The Gernsback Co ...
  • 2009-03-11 16:16:49
    Bizzarely, the only story I recall was one about Mozart being somehow brought to the present, where ...
  • 2009-03-09 22:33:30
    The comic book has a very different ending, including some seriously trippy tentacles: http://fullb ...
  • 2009-03-09 17:09:40
    Drumroll please...............! And the winner is...EJ. And Dan. Yes, it was Do Androids Dream of E ...
  • 2009-03-09 06:22:36
    I can't hold it in any longer. I think it was the PKD. Was it the PKD?
  • 2009-03-09 03:56:57
    Hmmm. And hmmm, again. Still skeptical, still don't want to pay $15 f@#king dollars to see any mov ...
  • 2009-03-02 12:29:38
    Good guesses Dano. I'll wait to see if there are any other takers before revealing the answer.
  • 2009-03-02 07:40:59
    It could have been "Do Androids Dream..." too. But I'm going to stand by my guess of "Towing Jehova ...
  • 2009-03-02 07:34:39
    I don't think I was even there for that whole thing (though I think "Winter's Tale" might have been ...
  • 2009-03-01 23:04:15
    "...prize..." Yay! "...who was not in the room..." Aw. Actually, I don't offhand remember which ...
  • 2009-02-18 21:04:14
    I got it last night after Ken's first signing. So far, shaping up to be everything you could expect ...
  • 2009-02-10 15:35:43
    This is awesome. And personally embarrassing, remembering all the times I gave up writing a story b ...
  • 2009-02-10 00:16:24
    Here, here! I actually wish the two categories would stop steering at each other (Well, the literary ...
  • 2009-02-07 22:26:45
    Have you listened to the one where he talks about how much he hates dancing? It's amazing.
  • 2009-02-06 00:48:37
    I had no idea Stephen Fry had a podcast, much less a series about travelling across America. How lo ...
  • 2009-02-05 00:21:56
    Technically 110 words! How fun. I've always thought "bulger" was a rather icky-sounding word.
  • 2009-02-04 22:44:34
    As an ailurophile, I must adumbrate, that cat is blandiloquent. (And I had no idea "zyzzyva" was a ...
  • 2009-02-04 08:02:42
    I have just felt one hundred small shocks of delight.
  • 2009-02-04 00:00:35
    Wonderful, Walter! Yes, how can we get a copy?
  • [...] week, a lot of us were talking about it, prompted by Damien G. Walter’s entry in his blo ...
  • 2009-02-02 11:01:16
    Well done.
  • 2009-02-02 03:38:30
    Hang on, where can I buy this magazine? I want to read a Walter original.
  • 2009-02-01 13:31:58
    Oh yes, this is what we need. Covert distribution of speculative fiction pamphlets via sneaker net!
  • 2009-02-01 13:29:06
    Darn it. I'm just going to have to take up poetry.
  • 2009-02-01 09:20:59
    Yep, it told me I should be a poet!
  • 2009-01-31 22:39:21
    I've been a fan of samizdat even since I was about seven and started making my own little books. Pre ...
  • 2009-01-31 22:35:37
    "Poets are both clean and warm and most are far above the norm." -Monty Python
  • 2009-01-31 20:02:26
    No, Jo Twist, NO! There will be no swapping. The magic, all knowing quizmaster has spoken.
  • 2009-01-31 15:57:04
    they told me I should be a science fiction writer ... maybe we should swap lives ...
  • [...] Damien Walter comments on an article that appeared in The Guardian that discusses the dissing ...
  • 2009-01-31 11:34:04
    Nice to meet you Karla. Any friend of Dan's and all that. I thinkbthe zine space is going to be exci ...
  • 2009-01-31 03:11:23
    I've been thinking this may well be a good time for writers across all genres to start our own 'zine ...
  • 2009-01-30 06:31:02
    I tend to think that, tech-savviness notwithstanding, it's the subject matter of litfic that tends t ...
  • 2009-01-29 14:38:24
    Good point Emily. but once the lit-fic crowd get oline, is there going to be any space left for them ...
  • 2009-01-29 04:30:13
    Great article, Damien. It is also possible that the popularity of specfic authors on the internet c ...
  • 2009-01-29 02:39:28
    Very well put. I think you're absolutely right.
  • [...] Lit-Fic : the genre that dare not speak its name [...]
  • 2009-01-28 19:40:51
    Ooh. Didn't think about the italics. Is this film, in spite of itself, setting a precedent? They s ...
  • [...] industry. source: Wiley Download Free Ebook Sample … Books, Optical Communications, Eboo ...
  • 2009-01-28 06:37:12
    Hey, it's a flim title that has italics in it. That's a step forward, in a sense. Of course, that' ...
  • 2009-01-27 18:18:09
    Yeah, I think I could handle seeing "He's Just Not That Into You" with the aid of a bunch of like-mi ...
  • 2009-01-27 16:08:05
    The book is for single women and is technically nonfiction, a self-help dating guide whose premise a ...
  • 2009-01-27 07:55:22
    Every time I must venture into the scary wilderness that is the "Relationships" section at the books ...
  • 2009-01-27 05:24:28
    The book made me want to pull my eyeballs out. The movie makes me want to drive hot arsenic-tipped ...
  • 2009-01-23 09:28:43
    There was a woman who, as soon as she got off the plane at Heathrow, discovered that she was insatia ...
  • 2009-01-21 14:45:18
    I've become slightly obsessed with the whole sitemeter thing and finding out how people ended up on ...
  • 2009-01-13 19:55:22
    Thank you Sarah. You see, I knew I had smart friends!
  • 2009-01-13 15:21:44
    "So tief im Abendrot" -- I find that with translations it's a lot more useful to have a rough/messy/ ...
  • 2009-01-12 21:09:36
    Gladiatrix by Russell Whitfield
  • 2009-01-07 01:13:28
    Thanks Dirty Baptist. I may well do that.
  • 2009-01-07 00:54:59
    Try Prince of Ayodhya by Ashok Banker. The first (and only, as far as I’m aware) epic fantasy ser ...
  • 2009-01-06 19:31:34
    Seems I may secretly have been a dog person the whole time.
  • 2009-01-06 09:40:55
    You might appear to be a cat person, I think you're a dog person.
  • Kat
    2009-01-06 02:15:21
    If you do read "The Rhetorics of Fantasy," please let me know what you think. It's been on my maybe ...
  • 2009-01-05 20:23:04
    mo says dog
  • 2009-01-04 09:12:50
    oh, dogs all the way.
  • 2009-01-03 09:02:58
    Our pianist played "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of ballet class yesterday. I might have gotten nostal ...
  • 2008-12-12 21:17:05
    If you don't want to take a loan, maybe you can bet on yourself by using our service- WordHustler.co ...
  • 2008-12-09 18:27:18
    And here I wasn't going to apply again, and they have to go get another excellent lineup. Time to g ...
  • 2008-12-01 14:33:02
    Well, at least you've been thinking about writing for the whole month. And if you keep up the same p ...
  • [...] Walter not only gives a great shout-out, but goes out on a limb, as well. Many thanks, [...]
  • 2008-11-08 19:59:43
    Oh yes, and I'm pretty sure it;s Yorke....
  • 2008-11-07 20:39:12
    If you're wondering why this is such a late response, I've only been able to look at your blog witho ...
  • 2008-11-07 20:36:22
    I also think the new album is great - at least, the tracks I've heard on MySpace - but I don't know ...
  • [...] The Price of Victory… John McCain gave a speech so gracious in defeat that many people would ...
  • 2008-11-03 13:48:36
    Good luck Damien. Setting a good example for your OU students. Teresa (Morgan)
  • 2008-10-31 23:15:38
    Good luck with NaNoWriMo! Too Shy to Stop just featured a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-win ...
  • 2008-10-31 21:24:29
    Hi Damien Good Luck! I did do NaNoWriMo when I wanted to get a first draft of a novel done - it gav ...
  • Kat
    2008-10-29 23:40:54
    Oh, this makes me happy, too. Thanks for posting it.
  • [...] Post: Matter - Iain M Banks with 511 [...]
  • 2008-10-20 20:12:00
    Hi Damien, we've met indirectly through Lydia. Your last two posts have inspired me to comment. ...
  • 2008-10-16 15:09:30
    It's all about the chaos magic, my friend. Or, at least, that's my vote.
  • 2008-10-16 11:42:31
    Thanks for your response Luke. I think your final point is very central to the discussion. Its the c ...
  • [...] final comment I want to make, going back to Damien Walter again. In his article “The Pol ...
  • 2008-10-16 01:17:13
    I enjoyed reading your article and the discussion that arose as a result, Damien. Although the work ...
  • 2008-10-05 22:31:07
    I turn on the ignition and roll the car forward. The rain falls at a slight angle because of the gal ...
  • 2008-09-30 01:00:45
    The natural response is: what about the story then makes it SF? If the Sfictional elements are peri ...
  • 2008-09-30 00:55:40
    This political dichotomy seems like a strange reversal in attitude. It seems to me that traditional ...
  • 2008-09-29 17:12:56
    Well, one way to get conflict is to focus on aspects of day to day living that the utopian elements ...
  • 2008-09-24 23:55:08
    I don't see why it has to be utopian futures. I mean, imagining a positive future doesn't necessaril ...
  • 2008-09-24 22:16:37
    Yeah, that ocured to me when the article went live. I thought 'You've gone and opened your yap again ...
  • 2008-09-24 18:10:32
    Happier SF is getting to be a bee in your bonnet, isn't it? Not that I'm arguing; I like hoping for ...
  • [...] It’s at times like these that people seek escape in the pages of popular fiction . But anyon ...
  • 2008-09-18 01:39:32
    Hang on... Yes, look! I've got Dogland on my bookshelf. I think I bought it for my sister because of ...
  • Kat
    2008-09-12 20:16:20
    The Clarion collective brain strikes again - I just picked up The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, ...
  • 2008-09-09 02:19:56
    I have to say, I think optimism is a difficult crop to cultivate in the current geopolitical climate ...
  • 2008-09-02 06:00:56
    Hey, that's great...dark and disturbing though it is...;)
  • 2008-09-01 20:14:26
    Congrats!
  • 2008-08-31 13:10:19
    Hurrah! Put up a reminder so I can listen.
  • 2008-08-30 21:55:52
    Yay, I'm glad you've found a better hook. Keep writing!
  • 2008-08-30 12:21:26
    I would have been disappointed if you had Murphy. The day S.F. Murphy believes a word of such things ...
  • 2008-08-30 07:46:13
    It was the standard "chicken in every pot" speech. I do not believe a word of it.
  • 2008-08-29 12:32:54
    I agree that it was a very impressive speech. The man knows how to say things well. What I find intr ...
  • 2008-08-29 11:28:51
    I was impressed. Obama gave people the right vision, which is the important thing now. More comments ...
  • 2008-08-29 04:24:42
    I just watched it. What did you think?
  • 2008-08-26 14:52:31
    Its a good point about the sway of TV over sci-fi. But I think Winterson was reffering to print scie ...
  • 2008-08-26 14:34:30
    I can't really blame her, some people would mistake Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Sci-Fi. o.O Kinda f ...
  • [...] The value of short fiction [...]
  • 2008-08-22 08:03:04
    Wow. I must say I'm impressed, Walter. Congrats!
  • 2008-08-19 22:14:12
    Listened to the episode, and found in extremely inspiring. The whole series Shaun Farrel made me je ...
  • 2008-08-16 15:31:34
    $~ rm -i /media/bag/cat.* ;)
  • 2008-08-16 14:44:27
    Hi Paul, I almost mentioned JJ but didn't want to give away too many of the agents on my most wanted ...
  • 2008-08-16 13:55:37
    With the caveat that I maintain his web presence for him, I'll point out that John Jarrold is anothe ...
  • 2008-08-15 03:52:36
    Just to let you know, I had to look up "internecine" in the dictionary (and yes, I do still use a pa ...
  • 2008-08-12 22:11:08
    Hey Jonathan, thanks for letting people know. I'm really looking forward to it.
  • 2008-08-11 15:06:42
    Just wanted to let people know that "The Sun" is a fine story and sits with the company very well. ...
  • 2008-08-10 08:47:52
    I think the bunnies were the scariest part.
  • 2008-08-10 06:53:54
    Hurrah for us! Hope the flight and train both were surprisingly pleasant experiences... I'm going t ...
  • 2008-08-05 21:40:56
    Yes, FantasyCon is high on my list of priorities. Glad to hear your collection is being launched the ...
  • 2008-08-05 21:39:29
    Hm...that is a very real possibility!
  • 2008-08-05 16:47:30
    Maybe Mr. Ryman's totem animal is a Pooka. ;)
  • 2008-08-05 11:19:29
    Hi Damien! Apologies if I have missed your email address. It seems quite a long time since we were ...
  • 2008-08-05 09:42:09
    i can't believe it's nearly over already ... am looking forward to hearing about it when you get bac ...
  • 2008-08-03 03:51:58
    It's amazing
  • 2008-07-25 09:01:53
    Oh crap. Did I miss that talk? I thought it'd been punted to Friday!....sad :(
  • 2008-07-18 05:24:01
    ouch, a typo :p anyway, here's Korean translation of that interview anyway: http://ethar.toodull.co ...
  • [...] 올라온 Damian G Walter의 스트로스 인터뷰. 설렁설렁 [...]
  • 2008-07-16 06:11:52
    I think Jim is watching via the rabbits, which have multiplied since his departure.
  • 2008-07-15 08:34:02
    Yes, those crows are definitely on the watch. They're making sure we don't become lazy slobs in Kell ...
  • 2008-07-10 09:43:50
    Would you mine if I translate your interview into Korean? I'm a fan of Stross and found your intervi ...
  • 2008-07-03 08:51:53
    sounds gruelling ... but glad you're determined x
  • 2008-06-27 06:26:56
    Hey There, Nice Post! I learned alot by visiting this blog. If interested in viewing the latest vide ...
  • 2008-06-27 04:11:47
    Wooohoo! Welcome to the U.S.! Have you been here before?
  • 2008-06-26 09:01:14
    Have a brilliant time and don't get up to any mischief with any sailors!
  • 2008-06-23 12:13:45
    yeah-that's really good:)
  • 2008-06-20 19:11:34
    congrats!
  • 2008-06-10 10:34:21
    I must admit, I've never got past his info dumps in his fiction, but the man certainly has useful th ...
  • 2008-06-07 11:29:07
    It'll be appearing in Issue #6 (December 2008).
  • 2008-06-03 19:29:23
    OMFG! How cool is that?!
  • 2008-06-03 10:31:36
    Off topic, but your Guardian blog post is linked to on Neil Gaiman's journal! http://journal.neilgai ...
  • 2008-06-02 13:58:43
    I think they mean 'surrender' rather than 'send your stories', unfortunately.
  • 2008-06-02 12:51:57
    Electric Velocipede is closed to submissions until further notice.
  • 2008-05-29 15:01:53
    Excellent suggestions all, a couple of which have collided with my own top fantasy worlds.
  • 2008-05-29 14:18:12
    I think I'd put forward two dying earth settings - M John Harrison's Viriconium and Gene Wolfe's Urt ...
  • 2008-05-26 15:33:37
    My favourite fictional universes : - Dune - the Culture - Gormenghast but the most important has ...
  • 2008-05-26 04:43:43
    I'd argue Terry Pratchett's world is pretty well-defined, even if it's not particularly coherent. B ...
  • 2008-05-18 22:13:23
    Thanks for posting David. Glad to encouter another former clarionite, ad a successful one at that!
  • 2008-05-18 19:27:04
    Congrats Damien. Came across this via the Guardian blog--very cool stuff. Good luck at Clarion--I ...
  • 2008-05-14 09:38:54
    Most often these days the criticism I read of the Booker Prize is that it's too populist and not hig ...
  • 2008-04-28 13:51:20
    Of course, how could I forget Mike Marshall Smith getting his tongue twisted around maverick cock!
  • 2008-04-28 13:21:43
    I had a great time. Were you present for MMS's maverick cock? The screenwriting and fantasy (expect ...
  • 2008-04-17 20:55:39
    I don't break any exactly, except that with regard to Rule 5, I might take a poem/story out of my su ...
  • 2008-04-16 15:29:33
    Their recent album In Rainbows was great, but I'm not sure it's a good thing to realise that ...
  • 2008-04-14 11:43:46
    I interpret that one as meaning 'Refrain from re-writing...once you are finished.' Its really aimed ...
  • 2008-04-14 11:29:00
    'Refrain from re-writing" - I always rewrite!
  • 2008-04-09 20:18:53
    Hi Jo, Yeah, I'd been getting that impression. Seems I have mucho reading ahead of me!
  • 2008-04-09 15:09:43
    the unconquered country is ace for the eastern connection ... and the child garden for hard sf. He' ...
  • 2008-04-08 01:47:34
    Yes, I agree that there's something about Ryman's voice that makes me think Japanese! Fascinating.
  • 2008-04-07 19:51:23
    Did you see the BBC documentary about Ryman a few years ago. It was after 253 and before Lust (about ...
  • Pam
    2008-04-06 13:39:12
    nah, any day with a poem in it is a good one! Blog it for us, whydoncha! xx ;)
  • 2008-04-03 08:29:23
    Hello! I'll be blogging about Clarion, too, some in haiku. Looking forward to meeting you in San D ...
  • 2008-04-03 02:47:06
    Hello! I'm another classmate.
  • 2008-04-02 23:05:05
    Hey classmate ;)
  • 2008-04-02 10:23:07
    Congratulations!
  • 2008-04-01 22:38:55
    Congratulations, Damien! And thanks for the comment.
  • 2008-03-31 23:44:06
    Hey Kevin. I hope you did get a place but if not I hope you enjoy the boat.
  • 2008-03-31 00:00:49
    Congrats on getting in. They haven't informed everyone who applied yet, since I haven't heard :) ...
  • 2008-03-30 21:05:36
    My beautiful, clever man x:)
  • 2008-03-30 21:02:46
    hey ... well done mate
  • 2008-03-30 16:49:58
    Congtrats!!!
  • Pam
    2008-03-30 12:59:01
    Yay! Looking forward to hearing all about it!x
  • 2008-03-27 02:52:39
    Oh, I can only imagine how difficult this is. Good luck, man. I wish you the very, very best.
  • 2008-03-26 20:51:05
    Hang in there, Damien! From what I understand, both Clarions got a boatload of submissions this yea ...
  • 2008-03-23 03:57:41
    I don't suppose you could drop me a line at vanderworld at hotmail.com? Thanks! jeff
  • 2008-03-15 12:47:11
    Damien, Really enjoyed the Circe Drabblecast Are you going to add some interpretation clues on the f ...
  • 2008-03-14 17:26:21
    Seconded. Escape Pod, and their sister podcast Pseudopod, are both well worth regular listens.
  • 2008-03-07 01:55:36
    Not the way I see it. Its not so much that interesting stuff in fantasy needs publicising, and if it ...
  • 2008-03-07 00:38:15
    Thanks Damien for this. I think you've hit on a number of my concerns with the programme. The second ...
  • 2008-02-29 18:31:00
    I've noticed that about them. Nothing compared to Sam Jordison's article on the Bible. (700 comments ...
  • 2008-02-29 18:14:18
    Thats actually fairly tame for the GU. People tend to just scan the article then leap to an angry co ...
  • Lou
    2008-02-29 18:04:03
    Some of the people who have left comments on the Guardian page are just so ... angry! Why are they l ...
  • 2008-02-29 17:06:13
    Really agreed with this. I thought children's fantasy was an abysmal place to start, something they ...
  • 2008-02-29 14:39:17
    I think it's a pretty good idea, on the whole. I can just bet my email will be abused with spam and ...
  • 2008-02-25 01:20:27
    The Luton Airport thing was SO not really my fault. Could have happened to anyone - passports are ti ...
  • 2008-02-22 19:57:14
    I just noticed that today. Old Man's War looks great on my Ipod Touch!
  • 2008-02-22 19:54:48
    As of the second e-book that was sent out, you now have the option of downloading in PDF, HTML or mo ...
  • 2008-02-21 15:39:06
    Hi Drew, Your comments keep getting caught in the spam filter! No idea why. Just rescued this one.
  • 2008-02-20 19:20:23
    Its all your fault you know people. If I wasn't surrounded by damn poets all the time this never wou ...
  • 2008-02-20 09:52:25
    Damien, what's happening..'poem'..short thing, no words..and you've sent it out, straight away, no m ...
  • 2008-02-20 01:18:03
    i go away for one week...;)
  • 2008-02-19 22:18:28
    *speechless*
  • 2008-02-19 13:38:43
    love the new look ... spooky country
  • 2008-02-14 20:44:36
    CONGRATULATIONS.
  • 2008-02-14 19:17:56
    Couldn't agree more. I'm on the 3rd edit of The Penguin Variations now and it's possibly six months ...
  • 2008-02-11 20:34:19
    Thanks Drew.
  • 2008-02-05 01:55:18
    New weird sounds great...checking out more of this now...
  • 2008-02-05 01:49:29
    Wacked out sci-fi absurd comedy / satire, let me think. For a good listing of SF 'zines try 'The Fix ...
  • 2008-02-05 01:43:16
    Nice links mate - i've just started out in this writing game and i'm looking for fanzines - do you h ...
  • 2008-02-03 16:48:19
    Really enjoyed the extract!
  • 2008-02-03 02:23:52
    [...] bookmarks tagged smog The Great Western Pile saved by 3 others      ...
  • 2008-01-13 18:08:50
    I agree, Buck 65 would be really great - especially with the repeated section - kind of like a choru ...
  • 2007-12-21 02:15:44
    Yes. I like that answer.
  • 2007-12-20 17:43:19
    to keep the muse you have to use your dreams ... and not to lie
  • 2007-12-12 04:48:32
    I hate the Booker too...for raising expectations...recently read past winners Amsterdam and The Sea. ...
  • 2007-11-28 17:30:05
    And how could I have forgotten the late lamented Norman Mailer's 'Ancient Evenings'? (Which I've ac ...
  • 2007-11-26 18:42:58
    I don't have a problem with rejection, at least in the context in question. I've never had a manusc ...
  • 2007-11-26 18:30:55
    Would 'The Mummy' by Anne Rice be too obvious? Yes, of course it would, and, furthermore, not havin ...
  • 2007-11-25 22:00:43
    "Most important of all, as soon as a rejection comes in, take the rejected story, pick a new market ...
  • 2007-11-22 17:40:34
    Read Kerry Featherstone's Leicestershire books blog for the aesthetic alternative view of this devel ...
  • 2007-11-20 13:46:19
    [...] You can read the rest of this blog post by going to the original source, here [...]
  • 2007-11-19 13:09:04
    Good stuff, Damien! I wanted to read more... Drew
  • 2007-11-13 00:55:51
    Excellent. Another take all together. Although spookily similar to my own effort at a thematic level ...
  • 2007-11-12 19:23:54
    I took one look at the dame and knew she was trouble. She had curves that defied physics, a face ...
  • 2007-11-10 11:25:28
    Thats an amazing first paragraph. Now I want read the story.
  • 2007-11-10 10:41:22
    Random first paragraph. "It was a ring, there was no doubt about that. Top scientists had studied t ...
  • 2007-11-08 13:45:21
    Clever! That's so often the solutions to writing problems...
  • 2007-11-06 20:02:23
    Nice of you to drop by Sam. No worries about the paragraph, I solved the problem by deleting it alto ...
  • 2007-11-06 19:44:25
    Heh-heh. How nice to arrive where the real action is actually all happening... As for Rings... I' ...
  • 2007-10-25 14:16:53
    I doubt that that's quite 'the full story' but it certainly put me right re the dates. I was under ...
  • 2007-10-24 18:51:18
    You can find the full story here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole I fear that the ...
  • 2007-10-24 18:44:39
    P.S. I don't know how many rejections he had, but he'd been trying for nearly 20 years, as I unders ...
  • 2007-10-24 18:42:06
    It worked, though, didn't it?
  • 2007-10-24 18:15:08
    I'm not sure dying really classifies as a 'route' to anything. Actually it seems that JKT died of de ...
  • 2007-10-24 17:59:47
    If all that fails, you could take the John Kennedy Toole route (though only as a last resort).
  • 2007-10-11 21:04:14
    Yes. Read read read read read and read some more.
  • 2007-10-11 20:58:42
    Good advice. Publishing credits do generate more publishing credits. But I would strongly emphas ...
  • 2007-10-11 19:48:42
    Good advice. And people do read the stories and it is important. I've been approached by agents, ask ...
  • 2007-10-08 05:54:18
    Hey Damien, Yeah, it's a sparsely populated but dense place, and it has long, long roots. I wrote a ...
  • 2007-10-03 18:23:57
    Hi Randy, Fantastic! I'll take that as my pronunciation from now on. The relationship between Lewi ...
  • 2007-10-03 17:44:04
    I'm excited that you have discovered mythopoeia. Jay's right about the pronunciation, though I would ...
  • 2007-09-24 21:47:28
    Thanks Emma. I'm feeling slightly better already.
  • 2007-09-24 20:16:22
    I'm undecided. I have a huge pile of birthday books to get through first. D
  • 2007-09-24 20:08:44
    Agree. It's fun to keep a blog - a record of what you've written, read, watched, got annoyed about. ...
  • [...] has reviewed the new novel from Jeanette Winterson ‘The Stone Gods’, a novel which ...
  • 2007-09-23 20:52:35
    Hope the cold clears soon. At least you had a good birthday!
  • 2007-09-23 13:34:26
    well the birthday was good ... and i am saving 10p by saying here ... it was me sending that text a ...
  • Jay
    2007-09-21 18:01:02
    That'd be MITH-O-PEE-UH Jay
  • 2007-09-19 16:49:02
    Looks interesting. I've read half of the David Mitchell interview (you can print five pages free a ...
  • 2007-09-13 17:31:04
    Go for it! deffo! and if you do get thrown out for stalking Gaimen then that would just be hilariou ...
  • 2007-09-13 11:21:29
    Go for it! Sounds fab. Agree about SWTWC (btw). I think the fact that, "Nothing much else happened a ...
  • 2007-09-10 17:53:26
    On Orwin / Grossman, I don't even feel that is a pedantic point. You are right to say it is a conseq ...
  • 2007-09-10 17:47:43
    I trust you know how much I hate to be pedantic - if not, just ask Lydia - but I really feel it incu ...
  • 2007-09-05 15:15:59
    I only have the little macbook, but it's busy transforming my life. The two offsprings went out and ...
  • 2007-09-05 15:09:59
    I just don't like JW very much. Not at all, in fact. Met her once and she was a disappointment even ...
  • 2007-09-05 09:04:03
    Definitely not sci fi then. Nope. No way nohow. Absolutely un-sci-fi-tastic. It's what Joyce would b ...
  • 2007-08-30 17:04:43
    You really must tell that story sometime, Alison!
  • 2007-08-29 23:17:04
    reminds me of when i expressed a personal opinion about a well known chain of bookshops and felt lik ...
  • 2007-08-25 20:15:29
    Indeed. I think I'm saved from actual hat eating by the lack of any comparison to Updike, but it com ...
  • 2007-08-25 16:29:34
    Hat time: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/king.html Meanwhile, I'm enjoying this blog... ...
  • 2007-08-23 13:00:25
    The dame looked like trouble. Dames are always trouble, thought Obscurantist, whom his friends knew ...
  • 2007-08-23 10:58:42
    Am looking for reviewers for gonewiththewinds.co.uk I understand what you're talking about in the gu ...
  • 2007-08-23 10:16:53
    no, that does actually really help. Know it wasn't but could have been written for me at the moment. ...
  • 2007-08-20 20:10:54
    Oh man! Now we won't get any more help! Nah! only joking mate! Good on ya!!!
  • 2007-08-20 08:33:02
    Nice one Damien!
  • 2007-08-19 17:07:27
    Thanks Ivory and Drew.
  • 2007-08-19 17:04:59
    Yeah! Great news!
  • 2007-08-17 21:17:26
    Post them, post them, post them!
  • 2007-08-17 10:36:28
    fantastic news! really glad to hear it xxx
  • 2007-08-16 16:51:58
    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give it some serious thought come next JSA payday.
  • 2007-08-16 08:44:17
    Yeah! Welcome to the world of Mac!
  • 2007-08-14 11:32:35
    hey damo i just got a nice email ... your recommendation ta v v v much xxx
  • 2007-08-13 17:17:37
    For Heaven's sake, why don't you just come out of the closet and admit you're a Potter fan? I know ...
  • 2007-08-12 22:02:59
    Yes Andrew Yes! Damien's been using mine. Evil, horrid Damien. I can't get near the thing. Verges on ...
  • 2007-08-09 17:52:38
    I can't help noticing that, for someone whose computer has just died, you seem remarkably prolific o ...
  • 2007-08-08 16:59:26
    But have you / has he given it back?
  • 2007-08-08 14:23:46
    Yep, its a class issue.
  • 2007-08-08 13:16:14
    I've often noticed that there seems to be a glass ceiling in the arts for non-oxbridge graduates. Th ...
  • 2007-08-08 10:48:45
    Yes, I did.
  • 2007-08-08 01:38:14
    Yes. He did.
  • 2007-08-07 17:57:30
    Ah, after congratulations...commiserations. Despite following your progress avidly, it had entirely ...
  • 2007-08-07 17:51:05
    Yes, congrats from me too. I've been trying to think of a good pulpy pseudonym for you - hence the ...
  • 2007-08-07 11:09:34
    aaaaaaaaargh noooooooo
  • 2007-08-07 11:09:03
    i don't know what this means ... but congratulations! xxx
  • 2007-08-05 08:38:18
    Congratulations! I'm very jealous. I love Chabon.
  • 2007-08-03 00:18:16
    hahaha;)..oh not about the bike theft-obviously evil-you're listening to the number one target...the ...
  • 2007-08-02 22:25:53
    this wouldn't happen in the countryside ...
  • 2007-08-02 17:11:39
    Random wheel theft may seem bizarre, Damien, but in my experience these things are cyclical.
  • 2007-07-30 23:37:39
    It's true Andrew. He killed me! He killed me good and proper! Murder, murder, murder! Also, I didn' ...
  • 2007-07-30 11:48:19
    Sounds delightful. I note that you are, however, somewhat less than completely ingenuous in certain ...
  • 2007-07-25 15:29:17
    At the same time both resentful of and grateful for, Douglas Coupland. Tch, what the hell do I know? ...
  • 2007-07-21 12:47:58
    I'm sure there's nothing - or nothing much - to worry about, Damien. I think you'll be well catered ...
  • 2007-07-18 18:29:53
    That's some heavy shit, dude. A little outside my area of personal experience, though. I'm not su ...
  • 2007-07-17 12:31:37
    Thanks Steve!
  • 2007-07-17 10:15:55
    Nice one!
  • 2007-07-16 17:25:33
    Thanks Drew and Andrew. W00T! is a term employed by hardcore gamers. It is commonly thought to have ...
  • 2007-07-16 17:02:42
    Well done! By the way, this may not be the ideal time and place to ask, but that does 'WooT' mean? ...
  • 2007-07-15 23:20:02
    Congrats to you!
  • 2007-07-11 11:28:11
    I think the elusive word may be 'ambivalent' (though I'm very annoyed I couldn't think of it when I ...
  • 2007-07-11 11:19:42
    By a bizarre quirk of fate, I read Hinterlands last night. It took me a long time, as have the othe ...
  • 2007-07-10 18:43:43
    That is probably true, however whilst the first two volumes are linked (Curse of Chalion and Paladin ...
  • 2007-07-10 17:54:41
    Well, it just so happens that I am looking for a really exceptional fantasy read, Damien, to provid ...
  • 2007-07-09 18:42:50
    Yup. See above for justification.
  • 2007-07-09 18:29:58
    He flunked it.
  • 2007-07-08 12:09:11
    So how did it work out? How's this week's word count going?x
  • 2007-07-03 18:21:44
    No, no previews cause it's not edited. It's just narrative. I'll have to put some jokes and feeling ...
  • 2007-07-02 22:02:12
    Yes, I really, really want a Mac. its quite strange because a year ago I couldn't have told you what ...
  • 2007-07-02 21:26:24
    oh, I am also now 60,000 words into my new book. I have so many threads. I have the guy from the IMO ...
  • 2007-07-02 21:21:31
    Damien, that's a lot of reading! I read Dune as a teenager on holiday, bought from a woman who lived ...
  • 2007-06-21 20:12:13
    I agree with that sentiment.
  • 2007-06-21 18:09:44
    I find what you read can have an effect on what you're writing. I have a copy of Penguin Lost on the ...
  • 2007-06-19 12:26:42
    Yup...a pen and paper version makes it much easier to go from first to second draft. Its much better ...
  • 2007-06-19 12:17:14
    I agree that writing pen/paper is poss the way 2 go! strange that I was the total opposite about 2 y ...
  • 2007-06-18 19:37:19
    Yes, lets hope people don't think I've been up to anything more adventurous than writing!
  • 2007-06-18 12:09:29
    Good for you! its always great when you relise that you have really broken through a barrier, wether ...
  • 2007-06-14 19:01:31
    You never know. A lot of self discipline goes a little way.
  • 2007-06-14 12:41:13
    would it help if i got out my whip?
  • 2007-06-14 00:48:33
    So am I!
  • 2007-06-14 00:21:05
    getting anxious about your word count this week damien ...
  • 2007-05-18 18:48:34
    That's only the tip of the iceberg. It s a well kept secret but I can exclusively reveal that PKD hi ...
  • 2007-05-18 18:36:05
    "A lot of it (not all, but much) is a great deal better than its source material." Oh, absolutely! ...
  • 2007-05-16 00:15:00
    I think I must have been running through exactly the same rainstorm. I chose the 45 minute window du ...
  • 2007-05-13 09:56:20
    ah well ... have to write those books instead sorry didn't get to talk to you on wednesday ... thin ...
  • 2007-04-20 20:04:33
    Don't mix the ears and the pasty in the same outfit. That's a shooting incident even among moderate ...
  • 2007-04-20 12:23:58
    Oh man! and I really wanted the Spock ears and Klingon forehead-pasties as well!
  • 2007-04-17 16:08:57
    Thanks Julian. Clearly my failure to shake the foundations of the literary establishment isn't your ...
  • 2007-04-17 15:53:53
    Sorry about that. Nothing to do with me! I agree with you about the sorry lack of science fiction no ...
  • 2007-04-17 13:17:41
    Looks like a great contest. I don't think I have anything suitabel under 2k and I don't qualify for ...
  • 2007-04-17 02:07:19
    Nice blog!
  • 2007-04-17 00:21:29
    dear damo ... this might be up your alley ... http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.9083
  • 2007-04-16 16:18:30
    thanks man! (now i have no excuse!) :(
  • 2007-04-16 13:44:06
    Definitely send it in for Tripod. The submission rules are strict so if it was late last time it wou ...
  • 2007-04-16 12:13:23
    Damien, as you know, i have tons and tons of stories that I forget about and never send off anywhere ...
  • 2007-04-15 22:00:55
    Send them somewhere. Anywhere. Try Duotrope http://www.duotrope.com/
  • 2007-04-15 21:47:27
    Yes. Yes I do.
  • 2007-04-14 00:29:49
    I'm not sure.
  • 2007-04-14 00:10:51
    is this normal?
  • 2007-03-31 09:46:20
    you wrote a poem!!!!
  • 2007-03-28 17:10:51
    I think you'll find you're clever than you think;) Obviously, I carry a dictophone at all times... ...
  • [...] March 6th, 2007 · No Comments Cthul-You is no longer available from the BBC Listen Aga ...
  • 2007-03-27 12:12:06
    dark and twisted ... and funny ... glad no smell of hamburgers this time ...
  • 2007-03-23 00:35:31
    he's like steve carroll ...
  • 2007-03-22 02:29:57
    Toby Litt! He really does get everywhere!
  • 2007-03-19 12:30:07
    Thanks for writing this up Damien. Gives a real insight as to how something like this can work, and ...
  • 2007-03-16 00:33:40
    trouble is ... how do you tell?
  • 2007-03-16 00:22:50
    Note to all us too. Thanks Damo, could do worse than think that myself at the moment.
  • 2007-03-13 01:00:02
    Hold on.... Beard? Everywhere? Spooky? Seems familiar somehow...
  • 2007-03-13 00:33:36
    i have discovered that steve is EVERYWHERE ... he is spooky with his little topiary beard ... poppin ...
  • 2007-03-12 21:14:53
    Yes. I've also discovered that paperbacks disintegrate in the sauna as the heat melts their gluey bi ...
  • 2007-03-12 11:02:33
    i think this is a good reason not to go to the gym ...
  • 2007-03-08 11:54:12
    Hi Matt, and thank you for enjoying the story and taking the trouble to track it down to its source. ...
  • 2007-03-08 10:26:51
    Came here as a result of hearing your story live on BBC7 - really enjoyed it. WTH are you?
  • 2007-03-07 00:49:35
    Oh my, a scary eye and a topiary beard. This will be an interesting WORD.
  • 2007-03-06 18:06:52
    i think that ... plus the thought of the little noise you make when putting on your socks steve ... ...
  • 2007-03-06 17:07:59
    Eye schmeye. You should see the beard. It's like wrestling with topiary. It's like the end of The Sh ...
  • 2007-03-06 16:56:31
    Absolutely. Wouldn't have it any other way.
  • 2007-03-06 15:32:44
    yikes i have still got the willies ... do you LIKE having that sort of mind damien? (i agree scary ...
  • 2007-03-06 14:52:23
    Please, go ahead. Thats a mighty scary eye you have there Steve!
  • 2007-03-06 12:49:37
    god that story! ... you are sick damo sick! and funny damo funny! got the creeps now and it's broa ...
  • 2007-03-06 12:38:58
    hellooo ivy! (sorry damien - holding a conversation across your board like that!)
  • 2007-03-06 12:33:53
    oooooo well done damo ... just logged on to say am right about to 'listen again' hellooo steve!
  • 2007-03-06 11:20:34
    Hi Damien Just listened to Cthul-you on the BBC's fab 'listen again' thingy. Really enjoyed it. Nice ...
  • 2007-03-01 00:25:32
    I agree about the regional thing: I almost feel I have to move to London if I'm ever to write actual ...
  • 2007-02-27 09:23:07
    Yep, he was absolutely amazing. Came in like a grizzled biker-talked like a prophet poet. I now have ...
  • 2007-02-14 23:24:29
    Hi Frank, thanks for taking the time to read the story. I'll pick up the POV and punctuation on the ...
  • 2007-02-14 22:22:20
    So glad you're doing the writing in scenes thing. Sounds like your really using this mentoring to th ...
  • 2007-02-14 22:17:05
    Took a look at it. Right off you need to be careful about switching POV you do this a couple of time ...
  • 2007-01-31 09:06:27
    It was an accident! Anyway, I gave that book the best weeks of its little papery life.
  • 2007-01-30 01:46:26
    Yes, both interesting and miserable. The perfect combination.
  • 2007-01-29 13:47:10
    miserable bastard!
  • 2007-01-28 16:46:40
    very interesting article that ...
  • 2007-01-25 18:49:57
    i have got a special reality check beastie net ... mwahahahahaaaa
  • 2007-01-25 13:17:02
    All kinds of beasties, all knocking about in my head. Somehow-I always knew;)
  • 2007-01-23 15:09:56
    The title of this blog, 'Don't Look Down' was also inspired by a Neil Gaiman story called 'Fear of F ...
  • 2007-01-23 14:47:05
    I read one book at a time cos am shit at multitasking and even tying up my shoelaces confuses me! I ...
  • 2007-01-23 14:44:47
    Oh man! I love that story am a bit of a Gaiman geek! Shush! Did a English BA, comic books are for c ...
  • 2007-01-21 23:55:36
    cheers!
  • 2007-01-21 18:28:02
    cuh-fool (you!) To put it in the words of H P Lovecraft... 'Cthulhu will eat Grofaz!' http://en.w ...
  • 2007-01-21 17:50:28
    i wonder how you say 'cthul' ...
  • 2007-01-04 21:57:05
    You should check out the new Mad Typist. He's here: http://nienkehinton.blogspot.com/2006/10/are-you ...
  • 2006-12-26 23:17:44
    I got Olaf Stapledon, No idea who he is!
  • 2006-12-23 02:53:18
    The likeness is scary :)
  • 2006-12-19 17:14:48
    Yes...that will probably be the way of things.
  • 2006-12-19 16:50:18
    It will be Martin Jarvis. It aways is. They only ask so that you feel involved. After a few sugges ...
  • 2006-12-19 10:35:55
    what about micky from eastenders?
  • 2006-12-18 14:29:43
    Nihilstic, mid-nineties, generation-X, slacker chic? hmm... I'd get Beck to do it. He has a great ...
  • 2006-12-16 13:31:20
    Danny Devito? David Duchovny? David Schwimmer? Ooh- what about Xander out of Buffy? Ok, Xander I c ...
  • 2006-12-13 22:20:25
    I've always had my suspicions about the exact relationship between Robbie and Well'Ard. Lovers? Br ...
  • 2006-12-13 17:53:52
    Good for You! Seriously! This bight break down some boundaries and I can eventually submit somehting ...
  • 2006-12-01 15:36:08
    Ha! Made a mistake with the link. All fixed now. Click! Read! Visitors are the only thing that will ...
  • 2006-12-01 15:15:34
    hey damien-wordpress won't let me read it!
  • 2006-12-01 13:41:19
    That's great! Well Done!
  • 2006-11-25 07:23:09
    Damien. We did not have to wash in river water.
  • 2006-11-17 12:33:35
    sshhh!!!! You're giving away the secret plan!
  • 2006-11-17 11:38:58
    Damn straight. And, like I suggested, just cut and paste. Write half and then repeat, in a post-mod ...
  • 2006-11-06 14:59:08
    yeah! thats the best way to get rid of that pesky internal sensor! i find that writing first thing i ...
  • 2006-10-31 09:37:02
    hey damien if you are going to word on wednesday i'll bring you some ...
  • 2006-10-29 22:40:31
    God-it's uncanny...
  • 2006-10-28 10:58:54
    all i can think of is "thunderbolt of lightning, very very frightning" and I suppose you could argu ...
  • 2006-10-24 18:30:39
    Thanks for the comment Nienke, I'll look you up on NaNo the next time I log in.
  • 2006-10-24 18:23:46
    I'm doing the same thing. My first time and I'm using it to jumpstart my current WIP. I'm also worki ...
  • 2006-10-23 17:33:21
    Juliet E Mckenna made the point at a talk she gave in Leicester that the only writers she knows who ...
  • 2006-10-23 17:28:57
    Yes, thats it! Thats whats been disturbing me about the whole thing...
  • 2006-10-23 14:41:34
    Surely you're just thinking about 400 years from now when the evil superhuman/alien race of the spec ...
  • 2006-10-23 13:14:27
    Damien - I do, like, little planning on paper (well not much more than what is on my blog) before si ...
  • 2006-10-23 09:03:04
    outlining ... interesting ... i watched a docu on john irving a while ago where he said he knows exa ...
  • 2006-10-20 17:08:14
    Indeed, its possible that once again my reactionary side has made me leap to conclusions, but theres ...
  • 2006-10-20 16:30:56
    oooo damien ... you cynical old thing ... i didn't think of it being patronising ... i thought it wo ...
  • 2006-10-15 15:10:27
    Also attending Jacqeline Wilson's Overdale visit was Lydia Towsey: consort to Damo and all round goo ...
  • 2006-10-15 14:40:13
    Ha! So that's what you were doing when you were meant to be diligently following every word and brea ...
  • 2006-10-15 14:36:31
    really funny review. Laughed out loud with recognition at the and then they all trudged a bit more q ...
  • 2006-10-04 18:14:02
    Is 'crusading' the right choice of word for a liberal? Good point though; the right has always used ...
  • 2006-06-01 20:58:00
    that photo doesnt show ur dandy fop hair as well as it might. I demand dandy fop hair!
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