When two drunk men sing, a spirit of air and light catches the melody underlying their brawling voices and plays it it such that it enchants those who failed to do it justice by their broken voices, guttural with vomit. Shakespeare in The Tempest (Act 3 Scene 2) attempts to show how music might sound … More “This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing”.

My mood was a mix-up, dusk and light seemed a matchTo the flow of colours in this translucent gown.Surely Night would not, when I fell in his bed, frownHis disapproval, or with his claws pull and scratchAway this feminine attire, or so he namedIt, as if non-binary being should not beFully blatant in the wide … More Twilight answers the question: ‘What are you doing this evening?’

Colour Wheel Exhibition of Pat Steir Paintings at the Hirsghorn Museum  and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C. 2019. Above is the most telling of n-grams I have ever seen, for it appears (remembering of course that n-grams provide neither valid nor reliable evidence for any hypothesis in scientific terms) that the usage of the word … More The word ‘Dissolve’ might aid those who find the things of the world they inhabit too resistant and too ‘solid’, but it is a word that in this helpful usage seems itself to be fading away.

Relax what exactly? Well! Relax the tension, ‘inter alia’:: this blog touches on seeing Suzie Miller’s ‘Inter Alia’ streamed at the Gala Theatre Durham on 4th September 2025. The whole point of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood lyrics and the excitable video and still images that once accompanied it on its release as I remember … More Relax what exactly? Well! Relax the tension, ‘inter alia’: this blog touches on seeing Suzie Miller’s ‘Inter Alia’ streamed at the Gala Theatre Durham on 4th September 2025.

Now is not the time to relax your caution! Would love of country be done surreptitiously and without anything but the need to stoke fear of alien appropriation of ‘our’ homes, women and children by men in black balaclava face coverings, overnight Posted on August 29, 2025 by stevendouglasblog A short film appeared on X, flagship of hatred and … More Now is not the time to relax your caution! Would love of country be done surreptitiously and without anything but the need to stoke fear of alien appropriation of ‘our’ homes, women and children’ by men in black balaclava face coverings, overnight

To feel a ‘right now’ feeling is a strongPretence to being present: whilst ‘right now’Belief now gone, I’m scratching at the painThat comes from scraping off a living fromAttempts to paint an image to last for longEnough to write my name under the glossI’ll finally brush over the whole work.It takes little art, but some … More Feeling absent