Wait until next year

Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today

Sunday Reading

Men reading newspapers

This week I have been reading, or intending to read, the following. These posts are as much for my reference as for your interest, so I hope you don’t mind too much these link-heavy, content-thin posts. Anyway, enjoy some real writing below…

Image from State Library of Queensland, via Flickr

1993

Nirvana standing outside a cinema reading Melody Maker

I think it must have been September 1992 when a school friend of mine handed me a beat-up C90 tape. He had borrowed some albums from his older brother and dubbed them on to the cassette. On the A side was Nevermind, by Nirvana. I don’t remember ever listening to whatever he put on the B side. Read the rest of this entry »

Weekend

Sunday Reading

Women reading at a desk

Image from New York Public Library, via Flickr

Prompted into action

Person waiting to type

WordPress offers bloggers regular ideas or starting points for new posts, with the Daily Prompt feature. I can certainly see the value of it but have always been a little wary. I’d like to write stuff from my own ideas, not from the prompts of others. But with a short period of blogging-time becoming available, and no posts lined up in my head that I could just bash out without any real work, I figured I’d take a look at the suggestions and see if I was inspired. And I was. Kind of. I thought I’d try to respond to the last five prompts posted here in this very post. Read the rest of this entry »

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