Wait until next year

Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today

Five years

The team at Wait Until Next Year celebrate the site's fifth anniversary

By my calculations today is the fifth anniversary of this blog. I certainly didn’t anticipate this place lasting that long, or me blogging for that long, but there you go. I started this place in order to write more, and I think the plan worked. While I am sure that my blogging will remain sporadic and I’ll have lulls and sabbaticals from time to time I doubt I could ever completely stop writing here. It is too much fun. And a big part of that fun is knowing that I am writing to a small, but perfectly formed, audience. So, a huge thank you to everyone who has read something here/commented/subscribed over the years. I really appreciate it.

Image from The Library of Virginia, via Flickr

Sunday Reading

People collecting their newspaper in the rain

All of this week’s reads are well worth your time. Not that I’d share a load of articles that are so-so, but these are particularly excellent and/or thought-provoking…

Image from the State Library and Archives of Florida

Weekend

The Novelist

“Can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love?” is not your standard premise for a video game. However, it is the starting point for The Novelist. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t see no confusion anywhere

I remember hearing Anyone Can Play Guitar for the first time on the John Peel show. Radiohead don’t really seem a “John Peel band”. I’m sure one or two of their songs made his annual Festive Fifty poll that year and he commented that he didn’t even think he’d played Radiohead on his show. But he did. I had recorded evidence. Read the rest of this entry »

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