The Peanut Society of Lucubrators

An Upside-Down Initiative

by writer Martin A. Green

 

Introduction to The Peanut Society of Lucubrators

This blog features regular eclectic articles centred around travel, mindsets in new places, adapting and improvising abroad, literary surrealism, impressions and new perspectives, ideas for living, seeking out leftfield spots, insights into artistic and literary lives, alternative career inspiration, the unexpected, economic ingenuity, the miscellaneous. In short, this wide-ranging blog has something for everyone!

 

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Lounge Lizards and the Athlete's Foot Microcosm

17/05/2013 15:15
  A memory of a certain late 1980s adult computer game came to me when drinking with friends last week. The opening screen gently explains to the new initiate how the game contains “some elements of plot which may not be considered appropriate for some children.” I was recalling the elegantly...

Two Shells: the Foam Bed and the Free House (hte p.1)

06/05/2013 20:12
  Junk isn't just junk. It's an idea. A man is out there, someone else, a metre from your fingertips. A man living in a non-running Peugeot 205. On his back the fellow wears a strapped-on foam tortoise shell that acts as a portable bed. With every window wound open, he lays out simple cold...

Imagination in Bratislava – Europe's Literary Hideaway

28/04/2013 23:54
  Doing little is the last universal luxury. Slovakia's main city. A slice of winter peace. A church steeple edged with gold like a needled Christmas microphone. Distant tower blocks in computer game colours are paused against the breeze of soft traffic. From the castle hill the rain-washed...

An Interview with BVS (the Bratislava Water Company)

09/04/2013 18:12
  The Peanut Society of Lucubrators interviews Zenon Mikle, Head of Communications at the Bratislava Water Company                PSofL: What is your organisation responsible for? ZM: Bratislava Water Company (BVS) is responsible for...

Parallel Contemporary Non-Art, the Everywhere Ocular Assassin

31/03/2013 19:01
Warning: this article contains two offensive images Impugnation... I feel strongly about these masterpieces; villainous inflictions let's call them – the proliferating picture-paintings that idiotic hands mount incessantly in rental apartments and hotel rooms across Europe and, dare I...

Green Eggs and the Cyprus Levy: An Edible Defence Economy

22/03/2013 14:42
  Alert: Before reading this article it helps if you drink a little wine, if it's late at night, and if you gobble an omelette immediately afterwards – I mean the kind to induce a mind-racking cheese dream. Following these guidelines might help you read with a sense of disillusionment...

Cellulose & Rust Selections - Two Poems that Shatter the Rules

14/03/2013 16:14
  Newly welcomed into The Peanut Society of Lucubrators are the enviable miens of Dr. Cellulose and The Purple Mayor of Heavy Rust.   Dr. Cellulose is uncommitted to Hippocratics and doesn't wipe his bum. Don't send him out for an extra bag of saline when it's raining. He has a tendency...

Leeds Revisited

07/03/2013 00:43
My last visit to Leeds was the most memorable for a long time... Filled with colourful items from childhood, wide discussions with my father, sharing crisp white wine; filled with moving about the city with an evolved aim. Walking to the centre, I passed directly through Harehills with its...

From Law to Art (Part 2): Keep the pen, sod the wig – Writers who studied law

18/02/2013 22:30
The Part 1 article demonstrated how law is far from the linear vocational degree that it initially appears to be. Our painters from Part 1 are kept in the good company of writers, with the latter arguably drawing more from a law degree. Welcome to Part 2: The Writers! Deep study of law helps one to...
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About the Author: Martin Green is a British writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a UK employment law specialist. He is currently busy building a new international property blog, and has run The Peanut Society of Lucubrators blog since 2012. His next book for publication will be his completed debut novel, spanning eight European countries, about two men's struggle to find full-force friendship in our times. 

Twitter: @peanutluc and @pwithconfidence