<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from weirdmonger.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 weirdmonger.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-22T11:27:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-22:links.412191800</id><title>The Common Touch of Accessibility</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_common_touch_of_accessibility.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_common_touch_of_accessibility.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-22T11:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-22T11:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-21:links.412191701</id><title>The Final Fanblade</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_final_fanblade.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_final_fanblade.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-21T09:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-21T09:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-20:links.412191675</id><title>Hadron Collider now! - follow it on Twitter</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadron_collider_now__follow_it_on_twitter.htm"><![CDATA[The Collider has started. CERN Zoo Incorporated is excited.Follow it as it happens: http://twitter.com/cern]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadron_collider_now__follow_it_on_twitter.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-20T21:28:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-20T21:28:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-19:links.412191512</id><title>Weirdmonger Wheel Collider</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/weirdmonger_wheel_collider.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/weirdmonger_wheel_collider.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-19T18:31:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-19T18:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-19:links.412191471</id><title>When I Was An Old Man</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/when_i_was_an_old_man.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/when_i_was_an_old_man.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-19T15:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-19T15:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191216</id><title>Enid Blyton</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/enid_blyton.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/enid_blyton.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T16:08:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T16:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191215</id><title>Cerne Abbas</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_abbas.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_abbas.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T12:05:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T12:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-16:links.412191076</id><title>Immortality takes on a new achievability</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/immortality_takes_on_a_new_achievability.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/immortality_takes_on_a_new_achievability.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-16T18:34:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-16T18:34:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-16:links.412191060</id><title>David Welham&apos;s Bygone Seaside Theatre</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/david_welhams_bygone_seaside_theatre.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/david_welhams_bygone_seaside_theatre.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-16T09:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-16T09:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-15:links.412190885</id><title>New Fanblade Fable (6)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_6.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_6.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-15T14:01:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-15T14:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-15:links.412190878</id><title>Hadronic</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadronic.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/hadronic.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-15T11:01:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-15T11:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190767</id><title>A Fanblade Fable - by Bob Lock</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_fanblade_fable__by_bob_lock.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_fanblade_fable__by_bob_lock.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T18:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T18:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190735</id><title>Rhys Hughes on Ligotti and Lovecraft</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/rhys_hughes_on_ligotti_and_lovecraft.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/rhys_hughes_on_ligotti_and_lovecraft.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T12:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T12:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190720</id><title>New Fanblade Fable (5)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_5.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_5.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T11:08:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T11:08:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412190310</id><title>New Fanblade Fable (4)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_4.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_4.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T19:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T19:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412190275</id><title>New Fanblade Fable (3)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_3.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_3.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T12:18:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T12:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-10:links.412190018</id><title>New Fanblade Fable (2)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_2.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/new_fanblade_fable_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-10T14:14:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-10T14:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189881</id><title>A New Fanblade Fable</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/a_new_fanblade_fable.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T15:43:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T15:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412189864</id><title>The Fanblade Fables</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_fanblade_fables.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_fanblade_fables.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T13:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T13:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-08:links.412189815</id><title>Basket of Coinages (updated for second time)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/basket_of_coinages_updated_for_second_time.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/basket_of_coinages_updated_for_second_time.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-08T15:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-08T15:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189697</id><title>Nightmare&apos;s Moat</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nightmares_moat.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nightmares_moat.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T18:58:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T18:58:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189689</id><title>The Pillowghost Stories So Far</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_pillowghost_stories_so_far.htm"><![CDATA[PillowghostThe Last BalconyIn The Post-War CityIntowardsPillowgeistThe WeatheringPowderghost]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_pillowghost_stories_so_far.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T13:16:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T13:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-07:links.412189688</id><title>Is the Internet something one should resist or embrace?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/is_the_internet_something_one_should_resist_or_embrace.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/is_the_internet_something_one_should_resist_or_embrace.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-07T12:52:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-07T12:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189409</id><title>&apos;Cern Zoo&apos; retrocaused itself?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_retrocaused_itself.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_retrocaused_itself.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T18:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T18:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:weirdmonger.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189388</id><title>Nemonymous Two (2002) - as &apos;real-time reviewed&apos; by Karim Ghahwagi</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymos_two_2002__realtime_reviewed_by_karim_ghahwagi.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymos_two_2002__realtime_reviewed_by_karim_ghahwagi.htm"/><dc:creator>Weirdmonger</dc:creator><author><name>Weirdmonger</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T15:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T15:04:00Z</published></entry></feed>