I noticed the other day that Chartroose had started doing a favourite bands meme. The idea is fairly simple: to go through the alphabet and pick out my favourite band beginning with that relevant letter. (Although The Langster has picked up on it now as well) A is for … It boiled down to a [...]

I have been tagged by Chartroose, who has taken part in a values meme, in which I get described as “appealingly strange, or strangely appealing”. Sounds good enough to me… Basically, I have to say six things I support, six things I don’t support, and six bloggers to share this with. So here goes. Six [...]

As (kind of) suggested by Christophe, here is a run down on the meme’s I’ve taken part in during 2008. More Memey Ness (February 25th) Six Word Memoir (March 3rd) Nerd-dom Meme (March 17th) Music IQ Meme (April 25th) Films I’ve Not Seeny Memey (June 26th) The Most Random List Of Favourites You’ll Ever See [...]

I spotted an interesting Book Meme over on Incurable Logophilia the other day which isn’t just one of those “tick which of the following books you’ve read ones” but has a little more to it than that. The book that has been on your shelves the longest The book that I have owned for the [...]

…or so says Stephen. This is the meme where you quote the first sentence from your first post for every month of the last year. Exciting, huh? January What better way to start the year, after taking a well earned break of a week or so, than by clearing out the deluge of spam that [...]

…as featured on Reed’s Out of Ideas. The basic premise is that it lists 100 not-so-usual foodstuffs, and you have to say whether you’ve eaten them. Oh, and: Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions. Bold all the items you’ve eaten. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. [...]

I took an online personality test, primarily because Rachel had done it. I wasn’t that impressed with it: I thought it was drawing an awful lot of inferences from quite a short set of questions. So I decided not to post about that. Instead, Rachel pointed out that there is also another quiz on there [...]

Via Steve. Grab the nearest* book Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. *Note: nearest means the one which is closest to you, as opposed to that one on your shelves which is really cool or will make you [...]

No, it’s not some kind of mis-spelled Mork and Mindy reference. No, it’s that I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo. As Steve points out (a fellow NaBloPoMo participant), these sound like sections of Judoon dialogue. However, they are in fact writing challenges. I’ll start with the simplest. This is NaBloPoMo, which I am taking [...]

Myself and Chartroose have cooked up Jack And Chartroose’s H. P. Lovecraft Short Story Challenge, more or less by accident. The basic premise is that you have to rewrite one of H. P. Lovecraft’s short stories and publish it on your blog. For Halloween, so you’ve got just under a week. And on the bright [...]