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Card Gallery

Posted by Angela Brett in News on July 30, 2008


I’ve added a new page which shows all of the playing cards I’ve used, linking to the associated pieces of writing. So now you can browse my work visually. I still need to take new photos of the earlier cards, and add all the aces of spades to the gallery.

Sometimes I like the card/magnet arrangements better than the writing. My current favourite is this week’s one, the eight of hearts with the defaced Van Gogh, followed by the three of hearts. Ten points to anyone who can guess or recognise what the tentacled alien magnet actually depicts.

Addendum: Thanks to some help from Bazaar of Dreams on the WordPress forums, it is finally possible to view the Jack of Spades: ɘloЯ on its own page. This used to be prevented because of a technical issue caused by the weird characters in the title. So if you were burning to leave a comment on it, now you can. But be careful… it might leave a comment on you first.

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Nitrates really are good for the heart, and Jonathan Coulton’s coming back

Posted by Angela Brett in News on June 10, 2008


It’s not often that something I say metaphorically ends up on the front page of the newspaper as the literal truth less than 48 hours later. This is what I saw when I got home this evening:

Nitrates are good for the heart!

Or if you’re French, Surprise: Nitrates are good for the heart! Isn’t that what I said in last week’s Thing? Clearly I chose the right suit to post that poem in. And the right deck as well — this is indeed an intriguing development.

And as if that weren’t enough, while I was still downloading that image from my camera, I found out that Jonathan Coulton is coming Over Here again, for concerts in London and elsewhere. I booked a ticket in the panic, hopefully I’ll be able to go. Perhaps I should self-publish the spades already so I’ll have a nice shiny book to give him.

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Apronyms are back, and the actual Jonathan Coulton

Posted by Angela Brett in News on March 15, 2008


After a downtime of three days short of a year while I tried to find time to rewrite the site to be kinder to the webserver, the Apronyms website is finally back up. If you don’t know what apronyms are, read this. Apronyms are about the only creative writing I did during my ‘dry period’. Some of the fancier features which were on the old site, such as the hall of fame, submission form, and expert awards, are not finished yet, but the important thing is the apronyms are there to be browsed. I will add the other features over the coming weeks.

Another exciting thing is that Jonathan Coulton, the original Thing A Week guy, will be doing a show in London on March 20, and I’m going to it. The show is sold out, so I hope you already have a ticket if you want to go.

Right, now I just have to write something about the two of spades and the letter B within 25 hours. I got an idea for a story on Tuesday, and have been developing it since, but I haven’t actually started writing it yet. It remains to be seen whether I can actually write the whole thing in time. Don’t be surprised if I end up posting an emergency back-up poem, or the first chapter of a miniseries.

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