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October 7th, 2009
02:11 pm - Soon I shall stop posting and go do childcare
The BPS asks some leading psychologists to share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they still don't understand about themselves.
Melissa McEwan quotes this one:
"There's plenty I don't understand about myself, but nothing nags. Paradoxically, the deeper I got into neuropsychology the less interested I became in the details of my own inner workings. I'm not sure why. It certainly is not because I arrived at any great insight or understanding. I still experience the almost visceral sense of puzzlement over matters of brain, mind and selfhood that first drew me to the field. What happened, I think, was a shift – let's imagine a neural switch somewhere in the frontolimbic circuitry – from one preoccupying question, What am I? to another, What should I do? It left me less inclined to bother about self-understanding than to consider the value of things, moral and aesthetic. How best to live? But here's a nagging thought: might those two preoccupying questions turn out to be one and the same, like the evening star and the morning star?"
Current Location: home, looking at rain
Current Mood: interested
Current Music: Eminem - Stan
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September 29th, 2009
12:15 pm
Finalised! My 50 favourite films. (Now actually at 50!) The list is not in order of anything. ( Read more... )
Current Mood: thinking
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September 28th, 2009
08:48 am
My guest review of Prick Up Your Ears is up on webcowgirl's site: http://tinyurl.com/prickupyourears. I don't normally like writing reviews much but I really got into that one.
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September 25th, 2009
10:57 am
Melissa McEwan's Feminism 101: http://tinyurl.com/feminism-101. Very useful. If you look on the site's homepage you should also find her excellent article about 'real Christians'.
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September 22nd, 2009
August 25th, 2009
03:39 pm - meme-ing - rare public post
If there's anything you'd like to say to me, post-BiCon (or just in general), go for it. Anonymous comments enabled; comments screened but may be unscreened unless you request otherwise.
Current Music: Phil Collins. Non-ironically.
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August 5th, 2009
11:41 am - Public post
from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lisy_babe: If you're someone who would be affected, directly or indirectly, by the abolition of disability benefits, please read this.
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July 7th, 2009
01:21 pm - Public post, feel free to point people at it
I thought I'd make a quick note about BiCon room/flat allocating, because I suspect people don't always think about how it works in practice. I'm describing it as me doing the allocations, but obviously it'd be the same whoever was doing it. ( Read more... )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/101.gif) contemplative
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June 10th, 2009
02:44 pm - Public post
Well, after some thought about anti-BNP stuff, I have decided that one thing I can do relatively easily is to advertise my lack of support for them. Since I already have a teeshirt shop that I haven't done much with yet, I have created some 'I Hate the BNP' teeshirts and bought one for myself. Other people are more than welcome to do the same (I haven't put a commission on them so the price is just what Spreadshirt charges.) Some of the teeshirts allow you to change the text, by the way.
I was vaguely thinking about doing another teeshirt saying something like 'Hurray for Immigration' but I'm not sure exactly what the wording should be.
(I'm not saying this is all I should do, or that it will achieve much, but public anti-BNP stuff is at least something.)
ETA: have added shirts saying IMMIGRANT and WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS.
Current Location: leaving soon to pick up H
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April 21st, 2009
March 10th, 2009
01:06 pm
BiFest poll (only of interest if you're planning on attending): ( Read more... )
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/91.gif) busy
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February 5th, 2009
03:35 pm - As I do occasionally
Public post for any comments people might want to make (Valentinesy or otherwise, anon or otherwise). Comments not screened initially, but can be if requested, or if I want.
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December 30th, 2008
10:00 am - Public post
Hurray for my daughter! One of the things we gave her for Christmas was a box of craft stuff with beads to make necklaces. She has used them to make a stethoscope.
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November 25th, 2008
12:05 pm
Yesterday, for no particular reason, I was trying to work out what were the biggest pop-culture influences on the way my generation talks. I came up with Eddie Izzard, Blackadder, maybe Yes [Prime] Minister? Monty Python? Star Trek? What else?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/84.gif) cold
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November 4th, 2008
07:38 am - Public post
Snap election poll: ( Read more... )
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October 3rd, 2008
08:23 am - Public post
I'm not going to the bi activism weekend, but in case it's useful to anyone who is, a quick list of what I think a London BiFest venue should be like:( Read more... )
In my opinion Doggett's fulfils most or all of the above and I don't think anything better is likely to turn up, although I'm willing to look at options and even, if I have time, search for alternatives. Or someone else can run another event somewhere else with different priorities (e.g. a no-alcohol daytime-only event), as well as the current event.
Current Mood: contemplative
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October 2nd, 2008
02:18 pm - Public post
seph_hazard asked about what I've written and I thought I should put together a list with links where possible, but I keep putting it off. Brief summary below.
In total I've completed one novel, one full-length play, a couple of radio plays, a pilot episode for a sitcom, and a lot of short stories. Publications: some of the short stories and The Ladies Loos (which I co-edited), plus my play was given a reading at the Streatham Festival last year.
I am working on two other plays and another novel, and also writing a Christmas story for Holly, but this has not been a good year for creativity so everything's on hold. (Except the story for Holly, which I wrote this week and am halfway through.) Any of the above are available to read on request. Here's one of the stories I had published.
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August 13th, 2008
10:15 pm
eBay's wholesale and clearance section is dangerous.
Do I want a thousand cocktail sticks? Do I want 12 dried baby ducks? Do I want 20 silk paintings, 18 tangerine candles, five tooth fairy cushions, 10 small grey vases with bamboo design, 20 handmade plantpot bristle pigs on sticks, 12 x 200g boxes of dream simmering granules, 24 pears made from dried plant material? Do I want 12 faux fur hanging horse cushions, 12 novelty egg candles, ten packs of elasticated food covers, 50 assorted kitchen knives, 12 plush heart fridge magnets, 48 fly killer pens, 12 pink poodle hooks, 60 peach toilet rolls, 12 glazed ceramic hens, 29 beer towels, or a job lot of four chain saws? Suddenly words make no sense any more.
I think Joe Orton would have loved eBay.
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June 27th, 2008
07:22 am
Occasional public post in case anyone has anything random and/or anonymous to say. Comments initially screened, may be unscreened.
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February 19th, 2008
04:55 pm
Worth doing every now and then: anyone have anything they want to say to me? Rare public post, comments screened but might be unscreened unless you ask me not to, no anon comments please (unless you sign them). I'm not guaranteeing answers but I'll try.
(Of course, the best thing about this is that with screened comments, none of you will know if nobody replies...)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/marcus/beheadedboy/56.gif) curious
Current Music: Labyrinth on DVD
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