#Inktober is coming…
Last year I participated in #Inktober. This is a month-long drawing challenge devised by Jake Parker. Here is the description from the Inktober site: Q: What is Inktober? A: Inktober…
Category: if a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly
Did Captain Molesworth Lose His Bet? … what happened
Following on from last week: “Captain Molesworth had a bright idea – he would play another round. He did this seventh round in 104 strokes and argued that he had…
Can a board games make you cry? A thread from the BoardGameGeek forums
This thread actually has the slightly less emotionally impactful title “can board games be emotionally impactful?” Obviously the denizens of this forum are board game aficionados. Some of the posts…
Play That Funky Classical Music White Boy
Raiding the vast (and out of copyright) canon of classical music has been a recurrent theme in popular music, from Frank Sinatra to The Farm to Eric Carmen (though Carmen’s…
Torture in Clogheen
From The Nationalist (current edition): Close up on the story itself: Close up on record holder Tommy Noonan: Close up on the man with the 20 euro:
Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)
More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in…
Turner and water — Maja Pitamic
I dabble, with unapologetic amateurism, in drawing. There are all sorts of intellectualised reasons I could give. One influential one was reading Tristan Gooley’s observations on how well artists read landscapes. Ultimately…
Séamus Sweeney 