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• Brain, Don’t Fail Me Now! Oh! You Just Did!

  I had always thought I was good at remembering things, but when the time came for me to do my own grocery shopping for the first time, my brain decided to step... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• This is Narrow Land

  

  Help! It's turtles all the way down this week! Here's where I started...'What's the derivation of the word 'list'?'*looks up 'list' on Google*'Oh, hang on, I... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• 10 Things I Think Are Quite Poo

  I don't do lists. My head is a mishmash of randomness, as a result I forget things a lot and am very disorganised. I'll give it a try though. Perhaps I could... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Just Haven't Got a Clue What to Do

  This weeks theme is LISTS.To be honest, I'm not very good at TO DO LISTS. If make one, I forget to look at it, or I forget to make on I the first place.This is... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Information? We’re Swimming in the Useless Bits.

  Evening all. Firstly, I am mega sorry for being so late with this blog today. I’ve been thinking about the way in which we are provided with so much... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - LIVE ON AIR

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for the next two hours on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's Worse Than That...

  

  by Ashley Lister Captain's log, Stardate 24601.69.Over the past week or so there have been some changes here aboard the NCC-Dead Good Blog. Away teams have... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• R.i.p. I.q:

  It’s strange isn’t it, how, when given a topic you get a marvellous idea of what to write, only to sit down and end up going off in a completely different... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Paper

  

  Eventually, you start closing doors. It seems that all your life you wanted windows and open vistas. You wanted to visit every country, talk every language, kis... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Get out of My Brain You Invasive W***ers

  

  Information overload. I'm naturally quite an introverted person, so I get this quite frequently. There is only so much outside stimuli I can cope with before I... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 BOOKS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Information Overload!

  It is said knowledge is power. I’ll bet our ancestors, who searched the skies, seas and earth with the flimsiest of equipment but the biggest of dreams would... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Information Overload

  My personal blue screen of deathI'm suffering from knowledgitisAddicted to trivia as if it's crystal methMy hands are shaking dailyAs I'm trudging round the... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dead Good Poetry Show - Live on Air!

  

  on air now!Just a reminder that tonight's edition of the Dead Good Poetry Show will be playing for the next two hours on Fylde Coast Community Radio.Tonight's... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Annabel Lee Visits Blackpool

  

  a collaboration between Edgar Allan Poe and Ashley Lister It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the seaThat a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Music is My Religion

  

  This event is tonight, in support of Blackpool Music Festival and is to be hosted by our very own, very lovely Colin "Cuddlemonster" Davies. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Being Human

  

  It seems only right that I asked my daughter, Raven, to join me on the blog this week. She memorised the eponymous poem some time ago but most of it has now bee... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Poe Selecta

  It's nearly time for scary stories and grim tales of gore....no put the gazette down I mean it's nearly halloween. I'm quite fussy about my ghost stories. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Swinging Time with Edgar Allan Poe.

  I can’t imagine he was particularly a party animal, but his poems are the reason I started writing. The disturbing images and beautiful rhyme are so perfectly... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Memories Not Forgotten - A Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by Colin Davies

  In death you sleep with the dark onesShadows falling on you like silk“Peace now” she whispers in the rainAnd the Raven hangs his head, in silenceImages live in... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blackpool Illuminations: A Visitor Appeal

  A Visitor AppealHave you been to the Illuminations?There's apparently some in WalsallThe Blackpool of the Midlands- houses falling apartIs it fair to compare?... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION