Anthony Kane Evans

... short story sub, that is.

Oh, wow! Big-time fan then. On a minor note, I've now finally got to grips with Mr Shunn's fabulous template. At least I hope I have, I've just formatted a book! So, you can expect me to bug you with a sub sometime this year providing our word limits cohere!

If you're re-reading it, then I guess it must be good. I've only read one Brewer. It was okay, but a bit forumulaic (from 58).

Abridged! Hope they haven't left out too many clues or too much juicy pulp prose. Or too many shoes.

Comic book panel. Text reads: And even when they passed each other in the corridors ... We see a young man and woman passing one another in the corridor. Both looking away from one another. Both with noses turned up in the air. Both saying; Hmfff!

Reading some funny old Romance comics from 59-63. Written and drawn by Ogden Whitney. They are the last thing I read at night, after a spot of Zen.

Oh, the opening of Moby Dick is hilarious! But this is a great book, for sure. I kind of think of it more in existential terms. There was a pretty good Brit movie made in 1970, which, even though it updated the story, worked quite well, I thought.

Kristian tends to be more active on Facebook. Looks like he posts once a month over here. So, if you have a FB account, maybe you could try to contact him over there.

One of Jane Austen's best, I think. At least this one and Emma are my favourites.

You worked damned hard to get hold of that Holy Grail. So hard that it was bound to be a disappointment. Like most Holy Grails perhaps?

Well, another 4 points and you should be safe.

Headline from The Investigative: Denmark Buys US Hellfire Missiles to Defend Greenland from the United States.

Exterior shot of my usual 'writing' café with a lot of bikes parked out front and snow round about the place.

Yes, it is all happening in Denmark.
Well, I've done my editing work for the day, so now it is off to my writing café where I hope to write the end scene for a short story that spiraled out of control (when do they not!).
I'll be off the social media, thank goodness!

I bailed on that one, but, okay, I was not a kid.

Graffiti on a white wall. In black, someone has written in block capitals: LIFE IS PAIN. Next to it, scrawled in blue, is: au chocolat. So, the whole reads: Life is pain au chocolat.

The weather forecast is for snow drifts. I'm gonna get myself well-upholstered and get out there and head for my writing café.

Yes, life is pain, but if I can make it to the café it is also pain au chocolat.

Photo shows a couple of things. The 'table' I'm sitting at, with pen, notebook, coffee cup, highlighter and plants pot in the foreground. And in the background, the view through the window, cars, cyclists, parked cycles. Trees. The road, traffic lights, some wooden structure over the road.

Some much-needed sunshine down at the old writing café today. Managed to plot my way to a quicker ending of the missing persons story I'm currently engaged in. Hope my Bluesky writer pals are getting the words down.

I quite enjoyed that one.

4,000 followers. I wouldn't worry my head about it. It's usually political posts, I think, that irritate people who don't agree with one's politics. You did post something political. Could it be that? If it is then you only got blocked by some disgusting people, I'd say.

You could perhaps add a rescue operation under-way. Add that narrative to the narrative you already have! Anyway, better luck with your next sub (no pun intended).

An interesting essay. I'll probably come back to it and read it again.

Well, I'm English, I holidayed a lot in the Yorkshire Dales as a teenager and even I have problems with that thick broad Yorkshire accent. Also, it's, of course, a 19th century version of the accent.

I think it is a fairly normal thing. Sometimes the most basic words escape me. Sometimes, when reading a novel, I'll underline a word or a passage which is nothing ground-breaking just one of those normal words I can never seem to remember!

That's pretty serious! So, you read only crime and watch only horror?

I re-read this last year (or maybe the year before). And yes, it is damn funny. Not many people seem to mention that. That opening, in particular, is hilarious!

They've promised us a snowstorm for this evening, well, we'll see. My wife doesn't believe it, but the news people seemed pretty darn serious, if you ask me. Anyway, good time to indulge in those horror movies you're watching these days. I might look one up.

Photo shows DVD cover of the German version of the film. We see the young woman who is possessed and the priest who is going to try to save her soul.

Been watching Excorcismo/Excorcism (Sp. 75. Juan Bosch).
Quite entertaining mix of giallo and Excorcist rip-off with Paul Naschy as the priest. Set in an unconvincing England. Even the road sign to Brighton looks well dodgy.
Recommended for those of you who like this kind of thing.

Just checked the Greenland newspaper, Sermitsiaq, seems like the Danes are establishing more military bases (not quite sure how large). There was some kind of press release from the Greenland police in Nuuk. I know that Germany is going to send 15 troops to join the Nato force there.

Congrats!

Impressive.

A shot from inside the café, looking out over the frozen lake. In the foreground, tables and chairs on a pontoon-like bridge, in the background, more of the frozen lake, building on the left (inner Copenhagen), trees on the right (the neighbourhoods).

It was a pretty long walk today down by the frozen lakes to a café I write in once a month! Boy, did I deserve my cup of coffee even before I'd written a single word. Hope my writer pals got some words down today.

Photo is a German poster of the film, showing the two main starts, Anna May Wong and Heinrich George. Brown and yellow colours make up most of the poster, with red for the titles and orange and a navy blue for Anna's skirt.

Just got back from the opening film in the Silent Film Festival playing in town at the Cinematek. A restoration of Song/Show Life/Dirty Money (GB-G. 28. Richard Eichberg).
Introduction by three people, inc. the restorer himself.

Clouds?