As long as he appears somewhere in public, I will keep posting stuff like this.

I won't be changed!

The importance of punctuation...

Currently reading...

In French this time, because it sounds better in French... And Antoine said it first.

Graffiti !!

My wife tells me there's no way she'll hang this in the Xmas tree.

I hope her children will not inherit her stupidity...

Yeah, show them!

Those frozen Russian funds? Will explode in the face of Belgium, sooner or later.

"The European Commission will move ahead with controversial plans to fund Ukraine with a loan based on Russia’s frozen assets, but in a concession to concerns raised by Belgium, which hosts most of the assets, the EU executive has also proposed another option: an EU loan based on common borrowing."

He did it!

Could not help myself. Will have to ditch some other books in my collection....

"So monolithic has the multi-billion dollar global scam industry become that experts say we are entering the era of the “scam state”." The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Things are not optimal. I'm going back to the earlier project. The stuff I was working on for the last week bores me. And if I'm bored, so will the reader be.

So it goes...

"Travis Alexander revisits Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” arguing that it contains a prescient analysis of today’s liberal-leftist divide." (LARB) lareviewofbooks.org/article/pync...

Currently reading....

Stolen, but I'm sure you don't mind.

"From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election." (The Guardian) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I have stolen this one from somewhere... It might be fake, but in this case, who cares?

They are... everywhere !

Climate change and all that... Things might take a turn for the worst.

Another feeble attempt to push my most recent books... e-book format only.

Modern Life...

Nice one by @jensorensen.bsky.social

In case you were wondering, I have the T-shirt:

Inner library:

And now an editor asks me for a Sherlock Holmes story. Anthology due early 2026. Any sort of story. I might want to invent a Watson-Sim that spills the truth about Sherlock, somewhere in the future. Or what?

Links: QNTM -- Steven Hall (The Raw Shark Texts) -- Nick Harkaway (Gnomon). There's a pattern out there, and I'd like more examples.

Warning!

Life is a drag !

Can't use Hercule Poirot as a character, so I'll call him Simon Dubois, the short Belgian detective. And he finds himself in Buenos Aires in 1940. Guess who else is there. Actually, the series of stories I' m writing, does not start with Dubois...

Let this be a comfort: (Tom Gauld, again)

Needs reminding:

"Everyone has an opinion. Unless the person is an expert it’s a mistake to treat their opinion as very important." (Naomi Alderman in The Guardian). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Can totally identify with this:

#speclist #scifi&fantasy Writing (or better, translating) another weird story of post-human sentient 'robots' and a confrontation with alien life (of sorts)... I'm not even sure this is anything near a decent description of the whole thing.

#speclist #scifi&fantasy #writingcommunity #mysterywriters I submitted a surreal, weird story about whale hunting to The Berlin Literary Review today. Third submitted story in as many days. One already accepted.

#speclist This is as it always should be done: sending a short story to an editor, and having it accepted a few hours later. Due in an anthology early spring next year.

#speclist #writersandwriting #mysterywriters What's the sense of having so many magazines, and most of the submissions are closed.