nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: I Watch Films: Lucy
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-watch-films-lucy.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Sunday, June 21, 2015. I Watch Films: Lucy. Until it started I had not realised that Lucy. 2014) was a Luc Besson film. When his name came up I adjusted my weirdness expectations upwards to what turned out to be appropriate levels. In fact here's what I knew about Lucy. The oldest ancestor of mankind (I'll come back to this too). Okay so let's start again. Most action films are actually pretty childish, with thrillers tending towards the...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: May 2015
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Friday, May 29, 2015. I Read Books: Return of a King. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. Keen readers of Night of the Hats (which after this long hiatus is probably a cohort of zero even including myself) may recall that in 2011 I read and reviewed a book called Signal Catastrophe: The British Retreat from Kabul, 1842. To continue my unfair comparison between the two books, Signal Catastrophe. Return of a King. Because I can't...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: July 2015
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2015_07_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Monday, July 27, 2015. It is the ninth anniversary of this blog. As is traditional for such milestones I will quote from the first post. Hopefully, this blog will never have anything of interest in it, and, even if I make a mistake and it does, only three people will ever read it. Still works[1]. It's like I plan this stuff! This story is about love and death. Because all stories are about love and death). Mortals call it Malus fera.
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: Hero of the Soviet Union
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2015/06/hero-of-soviet-union.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Hero of the Soviet Union. Heroes with feet of clay was the topic the writing group chose back in September last year. I wrote this:. Hero of the Soviet Union. April 12 1961 (and later). None of that mattered today as he walked into the white room to be greeted by the nurse. 8220;Congratulations Mr Mackenzie. You’re the father of a beautiful little girl! He was stopped in his tracks. “A little girl? 8220;I. had...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: October 2013
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2013_10_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Sunday, October 27, 2013. 365 Poems in 365 Days: Every Year. Is all clanky and lights. The presents it’s got are really quite nice. It’s easy to spot. With the balloons and the kite. Number 300. I may have had a birthday. Sometime in the last 12 months. 365 Poems in 365 Days: Elf King. I am the Dawnborn’s son, destined to rule. Lord of tunnels and hidden places. The Elders are mistaken. I should be Elf-King. Is not initiated by her.
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: September 2013
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Sunday, September 29, 2013. 365 Poems in 365 Days: Wedding Stories. The bow and the curtsey say more than a kiss. It’s her first dance after turning to Mrs from Miss. It’s clear that this is a promise and a wish. True story from a friend's wedding. Number 248. 365 Poems in 365 Days: I See In You The Very Heart Of Me. Sometimes what I say or do. Seems less like me and more like you. But other times I can see. Number 247 is just kind of odd.
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: December 2013
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2013_12_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. 365 Poems in 365 Days: Phoenix. This is poem number 365 of the 365 poems I wrote and posted here in 2013. I never thought I would see a phoenix,. Feathers brighter than the sun, dagger beak. Still not sure this isn't one of your tricks,. The supporting evidence is quite weak. Feathers brighter than the sun, dagger beak,. In the sky it was the highest flyer. The supporting evidence is quite weak,. Regretting th...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: August 2014
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Monday, August 18, 2014. I wrote a novel, or perhaps a "novel". It is a comedy crime (or crime-comedy) story set mostly in upper-class Edwardian era England. Regular readers of this blog may recognise some scenes and characters. The Inexplicable Affair of the Mesmerising Russian Nobleman. A Novel in Three Parts Set in 1902. Part One – Another Country House Weekend. COLONEL PERICLES BRADDOCK – Weekend guest, an old Indian soldier cu...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
Night of the Hats: Confession
http://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2015/06/confession_24.html
Night of the Hats. Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. A writing group suggested the topic Confession. So obviously I wrote some fanfic. I confess. I am the vigilante. I am the one who goes out at night dressed up in the costume to beat criminals to a pulp with my bare hands. It’s not a sex thing. It was a brutal fight. In the end I won. The endless hours with the child psychologist that resulted were worth it, because every time Kent tried to extort anythin...So I ...
