What is this? Well I rather enjoyed the discussion around the short story I posted the other month here called Airborne. After the story was published there was some conversation about how the story ended and I realised that perhaps it was uncomfortable for people to directly comment on the story posts on the blog [...]
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Telephone – Directors Commentary
Posted in Articles, Fiction, Long, Telephone on November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s alright for ants
Posted in Articles on November 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
An ant walked past my foot just now while I was writing. “It’s all right for ants,” I thought, “they know what they need to do.” Then I saw a spider, actually walking along, following the ant. “It’s all right for spiders,” I thought, “spiders don’t have to work out what they are supposed to [...]
Steve Jobs
Posted in Articles on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve known who Steve Jobs was for as long as I can remember. And I’m going to miss him. He was a hero.
No posts… well…
Posted in Articles on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some people have asked me about the lack of posts here… The answer is quite simple… Katherine has given birth to our wonderful daughter Nina… She likes to do Woodlouse impressions, find out all of the details on http://andronovjr.com
Why did the cat fall off the roof?
Posted in Articles on June 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
For many years I have loved terrible jokes. I also like good jokes, but there is something about a terrible joke that I particularly admire. My favorite kind of terrible jokes are the ones that you have to painstakingly explain. I’m not saying these kinds of jokes are socially acceptable, of course they aren’t, but [...]
Measure for measure
Posted in Articles on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you talk to a group of men about clothes measurements, men will quickly let you know how pleased they are with our clothing measurement system. Women have a completely crazy measurement system. They have sizes and they don’t really mean anything. And because they don’t really mean anything one can be one size in [...]
Close the curtains
Posted in Articles on March 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There’s a window opposite me, the curtains are open, and it is dark outside. Am I rebellious or foolish? My friend Nick told me once that one shouldn’t ever be afraid of curtains left open like this, that the more frightening thing would be to leave the slightest crack of curtain open. In that case, [...]
He’s only a waiter
Posted in Articles on February 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
About six months ago I was sitting in a pub writing up some notes for my novel. Several people had, very kindly, read an early draft for me and I had interviewed each of them to get their feedback. This had created lots of notes and I was trying to pull them together into some [...]
Editing while airborne
Posted in Articles on February 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The other day I posted a short story here called Airborne. If you haven’t read it then you may want to go back and take a look, it’s only short, and the rest of this won’t really make sense otherwise. Here it is: http://gamboling.co.uk/2011/02/08/airborne/ After reading the article on the site, my friend Fourstar let [...]
Morning
Posted in Articles on January 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I get up early. This is my morning. Please switch to the 720p version of the video after you start playing. You’d imagine this would be a feature of WordPress but it isn’t… Because wordpress sucks. WordPress ignores the information that is trying to force the HD version to play. Insane. Grr.
