Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m15h85eQZ71qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://heavenlyrecordings.com/news/2012/02/words-and-music-by-saint-etienne-the-new-album-full-details/">‘Words and Music by Saint Etienne’: the new album, full details</a>. <a href="http://titchlikes.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/amvxy4dcaaacyci-jpg-large.jpeg">Larger image</a> from <a href="http://titchlikes.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/my-kind-of-map/">Titch Likes</a>; there’s also the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWEAqNR2XQ" title="Tonight by Saint Etienne">video</a> for the new single there.</p> <p><a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/15576649848/song-map-dorothy">See also</a>.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/19622685193http://notes.husk.org/post/19622685193Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:00:00 +0000imagemapcovermusicsaint etiennea-zreferencesfiction<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytykl0mXL1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcclaverty/6773340581/" title="I Was a Teeny-Bopper for the CIA">I Was a Teeny-Bopper for the CIA</a> via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcclaverty/">McClaverty</a> on Flickr.</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/18887933542http://notes.husk.org/post/18887933542Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:32:06 +0000coverespionagefictionflickrillustrationimageintriguepaperbackpulpsecret agentsleazespiesspysuspenseted mark“I don’t suppose that I have understood more than a small part – all the same I have understood enough to be greatly interested, and elated too, since sometimes it seems to me that you are grasping ideas that I have tried to express, much more fumblingly, in fiction But you have gone much further and I can’t help envying you – as one does those who reach what one has aimed at.””<br/><br/> - <em>Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Olaf Stapledon after reading his novel, Star Maker. Quoted in a Guardian story, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/18/science-fiction-booker-prize?CMP=twt_gu">Science fiction author hits out at Booker judges</a>, about Kim Stanley Robinson criticising fiction prizes for concentrating on the genre of literary fiction.</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/5611647559http://notes.husk.org/post/5611647559Wed, 18 May 2011 19:27:35 +0100quotevirginia woolfliteraturefictionscience fictionideasolaf stapledonguardian