a novelty choking hazard

Category Archives: Bloggery

greatest hits

Since crying off from the ‘greatest hits’ notion on the occasion of this blog’s eighth anniversary earlier this last month, it has come to my notice that there are exactly ten posts here which have attracted more than 1,000 visits. … more…

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jonsavage.com

jonsavage.com is now live. Aside from the blog, there is a great number of extra pages devoted to previously unavailable material arising from Jon’s various books, including England’s Dreaming, Teenage, and the soon-to-be-published England’s Dreaming Interviews. There’s also the beginnings … more…

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back soon

I know, I say this almost as often as I say anything else around here — but I’ve been a bit preoccupied with something I should be able to announce within a small number of days now. Once that’s done, … more…

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Textism is back

It’s all too rare that I get to rescue a link from the “missing in action” category (no longer displayed, but still there in the back lot) — so it is with enormous pleasure that I can welcome Textism back … more…

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industry verticals, is it?

Google writes to advise me that I am now optionally able to …compare your metrics against industry verticals. at no extra cost. I have only the very vaguest notion of that of which they speak, and none at all whether … more…

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links for 2007-12-16: Eagleton, Barger

The armchair revolutionary Terry Eagleton: ‘I have no idea why we should listen to novelists on these matters any more than we should listen to window cleaners. I don’t know where their status comes from. When someone like Ian McEwan … more…

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Arrivederci, Giornale Nuovo

Giorgio Ghisi, Venus Pricked by the Thorns on a Rose-Bush (detail) Sadly, misteraitch has decided to cease blogging, on the fifth anniversary of Giornale Nuovo. This is a great shame, GN was one of the better arts blogs, and will … more…

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Gravatars, OpenID

Prompted by Automattic’s absorption of Gravatar, and consequently Matt’s implementation of Gravatars on his blog, I’ve incorporated the code to display gravatars on this blog here. You will find the relevant code to do similarly (if you’re running WordPress) here. … more…

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Now We Are Six; the novelty choking hazard explained

Enthusiasm became a blog six years ago today. Prior to that, enthusiasm had been a static link page on each successive iteration of my personal site, going back to February 1996, when Ye Midden first went up. A copy of … more…

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Tom Phillips: Autumn, Arrested

The Autumn Arrested, Tom Phillips, 2006 This is from Tom Phillips’ blog, and published (unaccountably) in April. Only discovered that TP was blogging just now via a Related Post at feuilleton — which just goes to show… something.

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