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Thinking aloud ... writers (and other celebrities) - through the internet or reality TV etc. - have lost their iconicity. They have gained a common touch or accessibility. Which may be a good thing on one level. But it colours their work. Dimin

The Final Fanblade

Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:23 A GMT+01

Last night CERN turned the crank of the Hadron Collider. In the next days or weeks we shall see, through their spinning smoothly by synchronous chance or clashing with random skewed wings, what they will blow into existence of the Univer

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Hadron Collider now! - follow it on Twitter

Friday, 20 November 2009 10:28 P GMT+01

The Collider has started. CERN Zoo Incorporated is excited.Follow it as it happens: http://twitter.com/cern

Weirdmonger Wheel Collider

Thursday, 19 November 2009 7:31 P GMT+01

From 2004, I've been building the Weirmonger Wheel as a sort of zoo for all my stories (published and unpublished), including Secret Wheels - from base camp here:http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2007/03/secret-wheels.html

When I Was An Old Man

Thursday, 19 November 2009 4:58 P GMT+01

To celebrate and reflect the Large Hadron Collider's re-start this weekend, its fears and hopes, its retrocausal, infinitely retropausal implications, I reprint below my short story 'When I was An Old Man' - first written in the

Enid Blyton

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 5:08 P GMT+01

Enid Blyton was *the* major force in my reading life in the Fifties. And apparently she still sells 8 million books a year. She wrote 750 books. The excellent TV drama last night on BBC4 with Helena Bonham-Carter was very provocative about

Cerne Abbas

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 1:05 P GMT+01

In today’s TIMES newspaper (17 Nov 09) there is an article about the Cerne Abbas chalk giant (liberally featured in the ‘Cern Zoo’ book) and its oft mis-orthographised ‘hadron’. ‘Hadron’ is Greek

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Immortality takes on a new achievability

Monday, 16 November 2009 7:34 P GMT+01

FREE COMPETITION TAKES ON NEW DIMENSION. NO NEED TO OWN THE BOOK. ENTER BY SKILL OR BY LUCK - AND WHICHEVER METHOD CHANGES BEFOrE OUR EYES AS DEVELOPMENTS OCCUR AND RECUR. The retro-causal theme of Cern Zoo has, in many ways, b

David Welham's Bygone Seaside Theatre

Monday, 16 November 2009 10:18 A GMT+01

New Fanblade Fable (6)

Sunday, 15 November 2009 3:01 P GMT+01

Cave Art is supposed to be pre-technological, yet when I entered the underground system beneath the Abbas Chalk Mines as a producer for a TV programme on popular aesthetics, I was astonished nobody had noticed a scratched image in a dark corner that

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Hadronic

Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:01 P GMT+01

Quote Originally Posted by Julian Karswell There is far too much to take in so they focus in upon a few specific things and then obsess about them. Sometimes the obsession is fruitful and positive, sometimes it is negative and polarising. I think if

A Fanblade Fable - by Bob Lock

Friday, 13 November 2009 7:58 P GMT+01

I am proud to present a 'Fanblade Fable' by Bob Lock who says he was inspired by my own Cern Zoo -Fanblade Fables, but in what I deem to be an otherwise original and hadron-provoking fashion. Thanks to Bob. The

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Rhys Hughes on Ligotti and Lovecraft

Friday, 13 November 2009 1:55 P GMT+01

Fascinating take by Rhys Hughes on Ligotti and Lovecraft at link below. The link leads to my initial on-the-hoof Rhombus response, and Rhys's post is just above it. The thread itself starts with an equally fascinating

New Fanblade Fable (5)

Friday, 13 November 2009 12:08 P GMT+01

The country pub had regulars ...that pub, you know, in the shadow of the chalk-giant that ever wielded its mighty 'hadron'. One such regular was a woman called Susan. Not a bag-lady, but one that would have been a bag-lady withou

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New Fanblade Fable (4)

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 8:55 P GMT+01

As the bird left the vicinity of the Hadron Collider, the beget bread it had dropped in a cooling-unit had created all manner of concertina results – a domino-rally of once stationary fanblades toppling upon each other round and round, flashing

New Fanblade Fable (3)

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 1:18 P GMT+01

The jaundiced ceiling bore the gentle spinning of giant double-conjoined mosquito-wing fanblades that were synchronised-swimming in the smoky air of Gordon Desmond’s office in what he laughably called film-noir land. GD was a grizzled cur

New Fanblade Fable (2)

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 3:14 P GMT+01

In those off-the-wall days, resistant baffles were built within the inner-tubes of the tyres on bicycle wheels. The spinning spokes were fantail-flanged to mimic fanblades. Brian loved pedalling around hi

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A New Fanblade Fable

Monday, 9 November 2009 4:43 P GMT+01

A large domestic cooler-fan - with fanblades spinning so frantically fast that nobody could see them as fanblades but only in the form of a fast-swirling forcefield randomly minced into a mush of themselves&nbs

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The Fanblade Fables

Monday, 9 November 2009 2:02 P GMT+01

Fanblade Fables - and Baffles.An early pre-cursor of the Large Hadron Collider and its 'Cern Zoo' accoutrements?Please see: http://weirdmonger.blogdrive.com/archive/189.htmlSome of those links are now defunct, but most work. I

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Basket of Coinages (updated for second time)

Sunday, 8 November 2009 4:00 P GMT+01

I coined these words and expressions: 'zeroism, egnisomicon, egnisism' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1967), 'whofage' in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1973), 'agra aska' (1984), 'weirdmonger' (1988), use of

Nightmare's Moat

Saturday, 7 November 2009 7:58 P GMT+01

There’s not so much difference between beginnings and ends as between sections in the middle. Difference in both time and substance. I first entered the graveyard that Blessed Brian once described in an email sent at least tw

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The Pillowghost Stories So Far

Saturday, 7 November 2009 2:16 P GMT+01

PillowghostThe Last BalconyIn The Post-War CityIntowardsPillowgeistThe WeatheringPowderghost

Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?

Saturday, 7 November 2009 1:52 P GMT+01

Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace? I wrote this on my blog on 16 October 2009:====================Pre-internet, I had masses published 1987 - 1995. Please see partial bibliography HERE as evidence. So, was I the first

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'Cern Zoo' retrocaused itself?

Thursday, 5 November 2009 7:39 P GMT+01

A new review of this book HERE today has stirred me to peform the "retrocausality" waltz even more strictly come dancing. Previously reported by myself from World News HERE.This review (a generally good one) also says: "

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Nemonymous Two (2002) - as 'real-time reviewed' by Karim Ghahwagi

Thursday, 5 November 2009 4:04 P GMT+01

Nemonymous Two (2002) - as 'real-time reviewed' by Karim Ghahwagi HEREDuring October / November 2009Climbing the tallest tree in the world: A sense of adventure, foreboding, tradition- the image of the tree. 'When we were students or prof

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