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Tag Archives: Theresa-Duncan

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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Nor shall my sword sleep at my side (just a day late)

It didn’t occur to me until today, the morning after William Blake’s 250th anniversary, to post, by way of celebration, Mark Stewart’s version of Jerusalem* with the Maffia, now 25-years-old itself, and sounding, if anything, more contemporary than it did … more…

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shout out…

…to the person in Bellingham WA, who must surely have read just about the entire damn blog by now, judging from the logs over the last ten days or so — did you come to any conclusions yet?

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A certain kind of blogging : Theresa Duncan, Tuesday Weld and Ecclesiastes, 9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of … more…

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an odd landmark

It’s no big deal, of course, in the great scheme of things, nor for that matter in very many schemes at all — but my first and only comment (until now) on the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake … more…

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Theresa Duncan R.I.P.

Theresa Duncan 1966-2007 Shocking news: Theresa Duncan, games designer, film maker, blogger, apparently took her own life on 10th July. A week later, her long-term partner Jeremy Blake was seen swimming out to sea off Rockaway Beach, and is “missing”. … more…

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To Wit: this is getting scary now

As you might have gathered, I’m still more than a bit slumped. Too slumped to have noticed for myself that my mate Niall Griffiths (in fine form recently when we walked and drank and what not) is featured in the … more…

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Kwaidan (1964)

A VHS copy of Kwaidan (1964) came my way a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t get to look at it until this weekend. It’s a portmanteau of four ghost stories, rather uneven as regards the quality of the … more…

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Modern Alchemy: Tincture of Winchester

I am partial to smoky flavours — smoked cheese, smoked fish, smoked tea, all that good stuff — so the Tincture of Winchester candle, apparently named after the rifle and giving forth, according to this here online brochure, an aroma … more…

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