Reflections on my top Spotify plays of 2018
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! I wonder why Spotify do this with over three weeks of the year still to go? Perhaps it is so that is…
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Apologia pro blogging-vita sua
Apologies for the coinage. I have generally tried to avoid navel gazing too much on this blog; the reader can judge how successfully. However, I have recently been taking stock…
Fiction (and poetry) update
It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…
“Still on patrol”
I came across this call for submissions for an upcoming anthology by Otter Libris: There is a tradition in the United States Navy that no submarine is ever truly lost…
Dear Spotify, Please let me unlink my Facebook Account
I came across this via Y Combinator. I can only echo, pretty much word for word, Eduardo Garcia’s letter: Dear Spotify Please let me unlink my Facebook account Last updated: October 14,…
You are not a product: Phil Lawton on Dublin as a hyper-competitive city
Back in 2015 I attended the inaugural symposium of the Health Research Board’s Trial Methodology Research Network (TMRN), which I blogged about here. The meeting (which was excellent) was in the…
You are not a product: Sue King-Smith on Writing in the Age of Neoliberalism)
I stumbled across this post randomly. Just as when reading Adam deVille discussing late stage capitalism, I am not totally sure if “neoliberalism” is quite the right term for what…
“the conformist anti-conformity of the books marketed at my generation” – my thoughts on “record store books”, March 17th 2005 SAU Blog
On St Patrick’s Day 2005 this piece appeared on the SAU Blog. It is somewhat in the spirit of my grumpy thoughts on book clubs from 2006 in the same…
Séamus Sweeney 