Tag Archives: The Guardian

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Posted on April 8, 2018 by W N Herbert

(Warning, Will Robinson : this section seems to veer off at a tangent before returning to (what appears to be) the subject…) I was struck by a recent and very particular version of our impositions on the customary: the decision … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity | Tagged Bothie Nichts, Buster Keaton, Dundee, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.M. Barrie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jimmy Shane, Leonora Carrington, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Naked Lunch, Oor Wullie, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Broons, The Courier, The Goon Show, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Mighty Boosh, The People's Journal, The Sunday Post, The White Heather Club, VisitScotland, Walter Benjamin, William Burroughs | 2 Comments

Close, 4

Posted on May 11, 2017 by W N Herbert

(The previous post involved me testing out and adapting one of Geddes’s ‘thinking machines’ – a little bit of neural coding, if you like. It helped me recognise that my tendencies to withdrawal, incrementalism, slapstickery, and to what I identified … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations, Makaronics, xenochronicity | Tagged Bartleby, Chapman, Charlotte Higgins, Dundee, Dundee Poetry, Gairfish, Helen Kidd, Hermless, Hugh MacDiarmid, Jim Benstead, Jim Stewart, Keith Jebb, Michael Marra, Oxford, Patrick Geddes, Phyllida Barlow, Punkademia, Richard Price, Slapp Happy, The Bartleby Syndrome, The Guardian, The Secondary, Tom Raworth | Leave a comment

Exceptionals and the Rules

Posted on March 22, 2017 by W N Herbert

I was very struck by The Guardian‘s editorial this Monday reflecting on the deaths of Chuck Berry and Derek Walcott, and thinking of poetry as something which encompassed and is lessened by the loss of both. Not only did this … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Chuck Berry, David Kennedy, Derek Walcott, Johnny B. Goode, Omeros, Peter Porter, Roy Fisher, Slakki, The Guardian, The New Poetry, Tom Raworth, World Poetry Day | 1 Comment

Laughter in the North (of London)

Posted on February 21, 2014 by W N Herbert

There was the other day a small but, it seems, significant shift in the way our most avowedly left of centre broadsheet, The Guardian, has been handling the Scottish independence debate. I don’t mean Martin Kettle’s opinion piece, which was … Continue reading →

Posted in current emanations | Tagged Frankie Boyle, José Barroso, Kosovo, Martin Kettle, Mel Gibson, Sawney Bean, Steve Bell, Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, William Wallace | Leave a comment

xenochronicity

Posted on March 27, 2007 by W N Herbert

As Mark Smith, the original Post-Nearly Man, asks, ‘Moderninity, what is it?’ Xenochronicity is a term derived from two sources – Zappa’s xenochrony and Jung’s synchronicity. Definitions, gentlemen, please: ‘In this technique, various tracks from unrelated sources are randomly synchronized with each … Continue reading →

Posted in xenochronicity | Tagged Andrew Waterhouse, David Kinloch, Donny O'Rourke, Frank Zappa, Johnny Vegas, Jung, Keith Morris, Linda France, Mark E. Smith, Mozart, Sean O'Brien, The Guardian | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: The Guardian

Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 3

Close, 4

Exceptionals and the Rules

Laughter in the North (of London)

xenochronicity

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