Category: Lize
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The Smart of All Talk
Just got back from lunch with a Cambridge-based astronaut, a woman who gave up being an assassin in order to start her own plumbing business, and Peter Sissons. Needless to say, we had nothing to talk about. It’s at times like this that I always wish I had a bag full of small talk ideas…
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Review Quotes For you
Everyone needs a good review quote to slap across their promotional material, put on the cover of a book, or tattoo to their teeth for when they smile at the Queen. So here are some pull quotes I’ve written, just for you. Help yourselves. “Funnier than a singing bush.” “A story that tears you apart…
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Finally, A Blog With Spine
When staying in someone else’s house (which I am), I often spend time perusing the bookshelves. Not to judge (heaven forfend), but to see if there’s anything I might like to read. I’m trying to ignore the Joy Of Sex which seems to be being used as a coffee table book here (it’s not a…
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Observations From The Back Seat Of A Car
I’m in a Ford Focus, halfway to Cambridge and it’s not even half past eight in the morning. I didn’t become a writer so I could be up this early. But here are a few of the things I can see from back here. The car behind us has a nodding dildo on the dashboard.…
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Wally Wick
I remember the first time I saw Marty McFly say ‘asshole’ to Doc Brown, and the first time I saw John McClane call the Sheriff of Nottingham a ‘motherfucker’; neither time was the first time I’d watched the movie. In fact, I’d watched both of them so many times from their off-air VHS tapes that…
