“Old glues, pastes and mucilages…”
Fascinating insight into the work of a library conservator, one of the unsung heroes repairing papers and books and photographs so that people like me can get their grubby hands on them.
Slimejam
A personal weblog written by Christopher Miles, an author and website developer living in Melbourne, Australia.
Regular topics include books and publishing, technology and the internet, parenting, and Doctor Who.
Fascinating insight into the work of a library conservator, one of the unsung heroes repairing papers and books and photographs so that people like me can get their grubby hands on them.
James Joyce was a four-eyed fart-sniffing tosser. Just one of Tim Howard’s make-believe Guardian books blog entries. Check out Tim’s previous effort Sterne for a treasury of postings both erudite and lewd. And there’s nothing finer than the marriage of lewdness and erudition. Mr Howard’s a celebrant all over that shit.
Mr Larkin, I like your trousers.
Blog. I mean blog.
David Golding is a super brain. Check out his posts on Doctor Who, comics and sci-fi literature. And beer. Yum.
Lili Wilkinson is terrified of vomit. She also has a lot to say about YA lit and other stuff. Hardly ever mentions vomit.
Stunning adventures in pinhole photography by Tim Williams.
Ross McRae takes beautiful photography of people, places, squid.
Great blog on Victorian showbusiness and more by Melissa Bellanta.
I’m a sucker for Victoriana; the juxtaposition of grime and ornament, technology and the primitive, manners and monsters. Here’s a fantastic blog offering glimpses into Victorian life, by an Australian but with a focus on Victorian London.
This blog by a historian and ‘robot fancier’ purports to “drop history like Galileo dropped the orange”, so it’s clearly down with it, homes, as well as being educational.
Evil midgets, lecherous men with x-ray eyes, and sadistic hot-rod driving go-go dancers. Is that a promise, Boris?