<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from weirdmonger.blog-city.com</title><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 weirdmonger.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:27:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from weirdmonger.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>The Common Touch of Accessibility</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_common_touch_of_accessibility.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_common_touch_of_accessibility.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fcommon%5Ftouch%5Fof%5Faccessibility</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;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]]></description></item><item><title>The Final Fanblade</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_final_fanblade.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_final_fanblade.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffinal%5Ffanblade</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Last night CERN turned the crank of the Hadron Collider.&nbsp; 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]]></description></item><item><title>Hadron Collider now! - follow it on Twitter</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadron_collider_now__follow_it_on_twitter.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadron_collider_now__follow_it_on_twitter.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hadron%5Fcollider%5Fnow%5F%5Ffollow%5Fit%5Fon%5Ftwitter</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Collider has started. CERN Zoo Incorporated is excited.Follow it as it happens: http://twitter.com/cern]]></description></item><item><title>Weirdmonger Wheel Collider</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/weirdmonger_wheel_collider.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/weirdmonger_wheel_collider.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=weirdmonger%5Fwheel%5Fcollider</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;From&nbsp;2004, I&#39;ve been&nbsp;building the Weirmonger Wheel as a sort of&nbsp;zoo for all&nbsp;my stories (published and unpublished), including Secret Wheels - from base camp here:http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2007/03/secret-wheels.html]]></description></item><item><title>When I Was An Old Man</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/when_i_was_an_old_man.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/when_i_was_an_old_man.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=when%5Fi%5Fwas%5Fan%5Fold%5Fman</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To celebrate and reflect the Large Hadron Collider&#39;s re-start this weekend,&nbsp;its fears and hopes, its&nbsp;retrocausal, infinitely retropausal implications, I reprint below my short story &#39;When I was An Old Man&#39; - first written in the]]></description></item><item><title>Enid Blyton</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/enid_blyton.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/enid_blyton.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enid%5Fblyton</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;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&nbsp;drama last night on BBC4 with Helena Bonham-Carter was very provocative about]]></description></item><item><title>Cerne Abbas</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_abbas.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_abbas.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cerne%5Fabbas</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;In today&rsquo;s TIMES newspaper (17 Nov 09) there is an article about the Cerne Abbas chalk giant (liberally featured in the &lsquo;Cern Zoo&rsquo; book) and its oft mis-orthographised &lsquo;hadron&rsquo;.&nbsp; &lsquo;Hadron&rsquo; is Greek]]></description></item><item><title>Immortality takes on a new achievability</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/immortality_takes_on_a_new_achievability.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/immortality_takes_on_a_new_achievability.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=immortality%5Ftakes%5Fon%5Fa%5Fnew%5Fachievability</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;FREE COMPETITION TAKES ON NEW DIMENSION.&nbsp;NO NEED TO OWN THE BOOK. ENTER BY SKILL OR BY LUCK - AND WHICHEVER METHOD CHANGES BEFOrE OUR EYES AS DEVELOPMENTS OCCUR AND RECUR.&nbsp;&nbsp; The retro-causal theme of Cern Zoo has, in many ways, b]]></description></item><item><title>David Welham&apos;s Bygone Seaside Theatre</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/david_welhams_bygone_seaside_theatre.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/david_welhams_bygone_seaside_theatre.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=david%5Fwelhams%5Fbygone%5Fseaside%5Ftheatre</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By special permission of&nbsp;an outstanding artist:=====================================SIX&nbsp;PAINTINGS BY DAVID WELHAM &copy; 2009&nbsp;&nbsp;Post-Collider version&nbsp;of&nbsp;sixth painting above: HERE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbs]]></description></item><item><title>New Fanblade Fable (6)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_6.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_6.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F6</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Hadronic</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadronic.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadronic.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hadronic</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A Fanblade Fable - by Bob Lock</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_fanblade_fable__by_bob_lock.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_fanblade_fable__by_bob_lock.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F%5Fby%5Fbob%5Flock</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am proud to present a &#39;Fanblade Fable&#39; by Bob Lock who says he was inspired by my own Cern Zoo -Fanblade Fables,&nbsp;but in&nbsp;what I deem to be&nbsp;an otherwise original and hadron-provoking fashion.&nbsp; Thanks to&nbsp;Bob.&nbsp;The]]></description></item><item><title>Rhys Hughes on Ligotti and Lovecraft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/rhys_hughes_on_ligotti_and_lovecraft.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/rhys_hughes_on_ligotti_and_lovecraft.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rhys%5Fhughes%5Fon%5Fligotti%5Fand%5Flovecraft</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;Fascinating take by Rhys Hughes on Ligotti and Lovecraft at link below.&nbsp;The link leads to&nbsp;my initial on-the-hoof Rhombus response, and Rhys&#39;s post is just above it.&nbsp; The thread itself starts with an equally fascinating]]></description></item><item><title>New Fanblade Fable (5)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_5.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_5.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F5</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; The country pub had regulars ...that pub, you know, in the shadow of the chalk-giant that ever wielded its mighty &#39;hadron&#39;.&nbsp; One such regular was a woman called Susan. Not a bag-lady, but one that would have been a bag-lady withou]]></description></item><item><title>New Fanblade Fable (4)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_4.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_4.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F4</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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 &ndash; a domino-rally of once stationary fanblades toppling upon each other round and round, flashing]]></description></item><item><title>New Fanblade Fable (3)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_3.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_3.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F3</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s office in what he laughably called film-noir land.&nbsp; GD was a grizzled cur]]></description></item><item><title>New Fanblade Fable (2)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_2.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_2.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Ffanblade%5Ffable%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In those off-the-wall days, resistant baffles were&nbsp;built&nbsp;within the inner-tubes of&nbsp;the&nbsp;tyres on bicycle wheels.&nbsp;The spinning&nbsp;spokes were fantail-flanged to mimic fanblades.&nbsp; Brian loved&nbsp;pedalling around&nbsp;hi]]></description></item><item><title>A New Fanblade Fable</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnew%5Ffanblade%5Ffable</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A large domestic cooler-fan - with fanblades spinning so frantically fast&nbsp;that nobody could see&nbsp;them as&nbsp;fanblades but only&nbsp;in the form of&nbsp;a fast-swirling forcefield&nbsp;randomly minced&nbsp;into a mush&nbsp;of themselves&nbs]]></description></item><item><title>The Fanblade Fables</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_fanblade_fables.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_fanblade_fables.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffanblade%5Ffables</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Fanblade Fables - and Baffles.An early&nbsp;pre-cursor of the Large Hadron Collider and its &#39;Cern Zoo&#39; accoutrements?Please see: http://weirdmonger.blogdrive.com/archive/189.htmlSome of those links are now defunct, but most work.&nbsp;I]]></description></item><item><title>Basket of Coinages (updated for second time)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/basket_of_coinages_updated_for_second_time.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/basket_of_coinages_updated_for_second_time.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=basket%5Fof%5Fcoinages%5Fupdated%5Ffor%5Fsecond%5Ftime</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;I&nbsp;coined these words and expressions: &#39;zeroism, egnisomicon, egnisism&#39; in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1967), &#39;whofage&#39; in conjunction with PF Jeffery (1973), &#39;agra aska&#39; (1984), &#39;weirdmonger&#39; (1988), use of]]></description></item><item><title>Nightmare&apos;s Moat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nightmares_moat.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nightmares_moat.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nightmares%5Fmoat</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s not so much difference between beginnings and ends as between sections in the middle.&nbsp; Difference in both time and substance.&nbsp; &nbsp; I first entered the graveyard that Blessed Brian once described in an email sent at least tw]]></description></item><item><title>The Pillowghost Stories So Far</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_pillowghost_stories_so_far.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_pillowghost_stories_so_far.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fpillowghost%5Fstories%5Fso%5Ffar</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PillowghostThe Last BalconyIn The Post-War CityIntowardsPillowgeistThe WeatheringPowderghost]]></description></item><item><title>Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/is_the_internet_something_one_should_resist_or_embrace.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/is_the_internet_something_one_should_resist_or_embrace.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=is%5Fthe%5Finternet%5Fsomething%5Fone%5Fshould%5Fresist%5For%5Fembrace</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;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]]></description></item><item><title>&apos;Cern Zoo&apos; retrocaused itself?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_retrocaused_itself.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_retrocaused_itself.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cern%5Fzoo%5Fretrocaused%5Fitself</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new review of this book HERE&nbsp;today has stirred me to&nbsp;peform the &quot;retrocausality&quot; waltz even more strictly come dancing. Previously reported by myself from World News HERE.This review (a generally good one) also says:&nbsp;&quot;]]></description></item><item><title>Nemonymous Two (2002) - as &apos;real-time reviewed&apos; by Karim Ghahwagi</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymos_two_2002__realtime_reviewed_by_karim_ghahwagi.htm</guid><link>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymos_two_2002__realtime_reviewed_by_karim_ghahwagi.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nemonymos%5Ftwo%5F2002%5F%5Frealtime%5Freviewed%5Fby%5Fkarim%5Fghahwagi</comments><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nemonymous Two (2002) - as &#39;real-time reviewed&#39; by Karim Ghahwagi HEREDuring October / November 2009Climbing the tallest tree in the world: A sense of adventure, foreboding, tradition- the image of the tree. &#39;When we were students or prof]]></description></item></channel></rss>