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Reducing One's Conditions: The Current PSofL HQ

10/09/2014 20:10

I'm editing off my novel in reducing conditions, in our current headquarters, this strangers' house. I'm living economically in a shared storage unit on a residential street... among these sensations of the halfway house, this 'lodging' that's full with... Horizontal...

New 'Living Arrangements' article released

15/08/2014 20:58

New feature article entitled 'Reducing One's Conditions: The Current PSofL HQ' is ready to dive into on the Peanut Society of Lucubrators blog. Click here to read.

14 Travel-Inspiring Quotes from Literature

28/07/2014 20:03

Here are some lesser known observations from a few of my favourite writers that are primed to get the mind racing towards the road. In a step away from the usual, more linear Twainesque travel quotes that we often encounter, I hope that these buried gems burn longer in your imagination....

Travel Quotes to Ruin You!

28/06/2014 20:08

14 Travel-Inspiring Quotes from Literature, hand picked from my bookshelf. Click here

The Abandoned Hospital: Hidden Bars in Belgrade, Serbia

21/06/2014 16:54

I discovered these bars gradually while living in the Dorćol district of old Belgrade (Serbia's “Manhattan”). So this article, which I've been sitting on until now, is a product of a time when I called this city home for a while. The establishments I've written about are barely advertised –...

An English Seaside Town: Burnham-on-Sea

24/05/2014 21:53

I'm in Burnham-on-Sea, thought to be a stomping ground for swollen white-van-men and the whispers of pensioners, and where the town's name is pleasingly embossed in gold on the victorianesque black litter bins. Peculiarly though, this largely overlooked Somerset seaside town doesn't...

Fancy a beer in an abandoned hospital?

05/05/2014 17:00

New Article published today on the Peanut Society of Lucubrators blog: 'The Abandoned Hospital: Hidden Bars in Belgrade, Serbia' Click here

Biography of a Broken Man - Character Precursor

04/04/2014 17:44

He enjoys newspaper and blowing glass, and no one gives a shit about him. The sight of his car makes him dribble diarrhoea like the washing powder allowance. One day, he dreamed, he'd move to a house full of sub-standard furniture. But he forgot about the idea and festered, like...

Wanted: Flâneur (The Anti-Job Advert)

15/03/2014 20:03

Ref# 9835 - Flâneur Location: European cities beginning with P and B, you decide Industry: Miscellaneous Salary: Unquantified – as much as you request & require (plus headgear allowance), bearing in mind that we don't condone the infinite quest for wealth. Choose carefully. Hours:...

British Public Libraries - Dusty Daytimes for the Job-free

12/03/2014 10:36

I spent Monday there, with the crammed-in people upstairs. Clinging to their seats reading aviation magazines or angling the head forward into computer screens, sucking direct static down their spinal cords – all two dozen cocked over like used drinking straws in a half-height...