Ark recommends I ask you wrt my Gravatar … when you click on my image, does it take you to my Gravatar site; (if it does there should be 2 blogs listed) (and if so,) are they active (working) links that take you to the blogs?
They work for me, but Ark says they’re not working for him.
Yep, Dreaming and Cassandric, although the images are appearing all messed up. That might be on my end, though, as I haven’t been able to see Gravatar pages fully now for weeks. Not sure why. The links are working.
Hahahaha! I empathize good Sir. I have tried & tried HARD not to follow the techy trends of OCD social-media, but over the last 10-15 years it becomes increasingly difficult when so many seem to prefer the art of exquisite human communication through 140 characters (or much less!). How is that possible!? I mean, can you imagine conveying your two books via Twatter? 😉
Hahaha! JOHN! You’re supposed to say those kind of edgy untraditional romances… SECRETLY via acronyms between 5-20 letters long! For example, IWTGIYPN!!! 😛
Christ, John….can I have your autograph?!? Adore Stephen Fry and feel blessed just by [distant] association. I hope you get that framed. Congratulations. Seriously. 😀
You really couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. The Offspring and I were watching Q.I. this evening and bemoaning that he wasn’t hosting it any more. Btw, I was serious about getting that post framed. 🙂
Superb! Excellent endorsement from a bright, funny, wonderful human being. Only thing wrong with him, unfortunately, is he’s British. Those people talk funny. 🙂
congrats! I finally had a chance to read it through thoroughly, poor dying hydrogen! I do love what’s on the last page 🙂 Didn’t notice it the first rapid read-through.
I am very good, thank you. We premiered our Brazil film a month ago to a standing ovation here in town.
From what I understand, it is not the style of documentary that usually gets made in Brazil, so I’m excited to see how it will do there…but don’t yet know how distribution is going to work. More soon…
Superb! Why didn’t you tell me you were popping down? Can’t say I’m a fan of Rio, but it would’ve been fun to show you some of the northern SP beaches.
You should cover this current political/corruption mess. It’s epic.
Oh John, if I make it to Brazil one day, I will look you up no question… but I edit, so rarely leave the small dark room.
And my director friend on this one, well… his wife may not let him ever make a documentary again, and especially not one about Brazil… no money from anywhere to fund it, he was beaten up by the police, just trouble top to bottom.
I have to say, some of the riot scenes we had made me never want to go to Brazil. Maybe it is Rio and not Brazil, I dunno… and of course some of my best friends are Brazilians…
Rio’s a shithole set in absolute beauty. Northern beaches of SP are way better, though… But don’t tell anyone 😉 And hey, dark edit cubbies are cool! Wine never tastes as good as it does inside one.
Edit cubbies are way cool… such a creative place.
Okay, when we do the world tour, I’ll skip Rio and aim straight for Northern beaches of SP (and be sure to bring some fine wine…)
Hi my learned Irish friend! Interesting articles, and I agree. Belief in something grander (perhaps something unseen) is delicious on many, many personal levels, and pure Humanism won’t quench that in many, many people. We’re an imaginative lot, and existential death anxiety is very real. Let’s be brutally honest: the Abrahamic religions are nonsense, Aesop’s Tales have far more wisdom than the OT and NT put together, but as these antique religions wane I have a feeling our species will come to embrace things like panpsychism. I see real benefit in that. Gone is the displacement of responsibility which comes with some external overseer, and that can only ever be a positive thing. Buddhists are, in essence, panpsychists; they’re atheists, but spiritual, so the two are not mutually exclusive. Apologists like to try and claim sole dominion over the nebulous thing we call spiritual, but that can’t be logically defended.
Thanks. I don’t, however, see atheism as some sort of intellectual one upmanship, rather a reflection on a person’s interest in the world around. I can be interested in art, for example, but utterly horrid at it. Honesty also comes into it, and to be honest (genuinely honest) takes emotional courage, not intellect.
Hey, John! I just wanted to let you know that I’ve finally got a review up for The Owner of All Infernal Names. Sorry it took me so long. What an awesome read!! Can’t wait to dive into the second book. 🙂
thesuperstitiousnakedape.wordpress.com 
And here I was thinking you were posting again … (Boom boom~!)
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I am, will be…
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Hi John—a favour, please, and sorry to be a pest:
Ark recommends I ask you wrt my Gravatar … when you click on my image, does it take you to my Gravatar site; (if it does there should be 2 blogs listed) (and if so,) are they active (working) links that take you to the blogs?
They work for me, but Ark says they’re not working for him.
Again, apologies …
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Yep, Dreaming and Cassandric, although the images are appearing all messed up. That might be on my end, though, as I haven’t been able to see Gravatar pages fully now for weeks. Not sure why. The links are working.
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The links are working, great~! Thanks John—very much appreciated. Boom boom~!
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No problem.
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I am, will be…
… when?
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Soon…ish 🙂
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A very nice endorsement from a chap I greatly admire.
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Me too. I had no idea he’d stumbled into the world of Aggravetics, but now he’s here, let’s have some fun 🙂
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Nice to see you posting again….congrats….chuq
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Cheers Doctor!
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Wow…you can be forgiven. Praise indeed! Although he is a homosexual, so… 😉
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So, he has exceptional taste 🙂
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And the praise should continue as well John. You’ve done/written some excellent pieces of work Sir. Bravo and congratulations! Well deserved.
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Cheers Professor… I suppose I should now learn how to use Twitter
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Hahahaha! I empathize good Sir. I have tried & tried HARD not to follow the techy trends of OCD social-media, but over the last 10-15 years it becomes increasingly difficult when so many seem to prefer the art of exquisite human communication through 140 characters (or much less!). How is that possible!? I mean, can you imagine conveying your two books via Twatter? 😉
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I just Followed you. Does that mean we’re dating? 😉
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Hahaha! JOHN! You’re supposed to say those kind of edgy untraditional romances… SECRETLY via acronyms between 5-20 letters long! For example, IWTGIYPN!!! 😛
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High praise. Well deserved.
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Thank you. Nice way to start the day.
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Wow I am impressed
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Put a smile on my face.
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How wonderful John! Well deserved praise for a remarkable book.
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Cheers, Em! I’m missing your Sprites. BTW, not sure if I’ve told you, but First Feeling is in the second book.
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Whoa, a celebrity touting! Awesome! Hear, hear!
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Nice, huh?
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Wow! You go John. Well deserved praise, indeed.
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Thanks V!
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Christ, John….can I have your autograph?!? Adore Stephen Fry and feel blessed just by [distant] association. I hope you get that framed. Congratulations. Seriously. 😀
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Adore him, too. Have no idea how he discovered the book, but am thrilled he has.
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You really couldn’t ask for a better endorsement. The Offspring and I were watching Q.I. this evening and bemoaning that he wasn’t hosting it any more. Btw, I was serious about getting that post framed. 🙂
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It’s framed here 🙂 🙂
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lol – I should have known. 😀
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Well done, John. As so many have already noted, well-deserved!
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Thanks Paul. Fry is one of those people I’d cover in gold and put in a town square.
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Congratulations!
If you haven’t already, ask him if you can put his quote on your book’s cover. It would help put the book in more hands.
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It would, but I haven’t asked.
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Superb! Excellent endorsement from a bright, funny, wonderful human being. Only thing wrong with him, unfortunately, is he’s British. Those people talk funny. 🙂
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Unlike we colonials
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Well deserved John
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Thanks Larry. How’s life up there under Comrade Orange?
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Perhaps he is doing research in case the Irish blasphemy case proceeds
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Oooooh, please!
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For those who are unaware:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stephen-fry-blasphemy-god-utter-maniac-ireland-gardai-rte-meaning-of-life-atheist-a7722081.html
Perhaps he got the idea of calling ‘God’ an ‘Utter Maniac’ from you?
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How in Veles name can the police “investigate” that?
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And, it’s a damn handsome book too! Congratulations! 🙂
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Cheers Bob!
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Cool! You’ll have a celebrity endorsement on the cover of the 2nd edition!
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Stephen Law is my celebrity on that one.
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If you can’t promote yourself shamelessly and without reservation, what good are you?
Great job, John.
That is (to barrow a Christian term) one hell of an endorsement!
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Thanks SOM. I’m a little surprised you know of Fry. Oxbridge humour isn’t typically the going thing for Americans.
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John,
Didn’t Fry play a shrink in the TV series Bones?
He was really good in that part, especially when he walked around his kitchen naked.
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Don’t know, never seen it. I “met” him first in Fry and Laurie, and Blackadder
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SoM, I just have to ask – (paraphrasing Macbeth)
“Is this a deconvert which I see before me?”
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Carmen,
Alas, I am still shamelessly Catholic even though I have been blackballed by the huge diocese where I live.
Speaking one’s mind to the authorities comes with a price.
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Speaking of being Catholic, did you see what Comrade Orange did to the very, very Catholic Sean Spicer?
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John,
No, I didn’t. I also didn’t know that Sean Spice was Catholic.
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Well he is, and a devout one… and Comrade Orange snubbed him in meeting the Pope, while inviting lesser WH staff to attend.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/24/sean-spicer-snubbed-from-trumps-pope-francis-meeting/
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Now that’s impressive! A favourite character of mine endorsing another favourite! 🙂
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I’d love to see him start arguing for TOOAIN in religious debates. That. Would. Be. Awesome.
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Nice!
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Delicious 🙂
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Are you allowed to say, ”Oh, and my friend Stephen”, now? 😉
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Let me ask him… He’s in the pool 😉
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Very impressive and well deserved!
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Thanks Drak
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Whoop! Whoop! 😀
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Toot Toot!
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Well, that’s a fine how do you do. Although I guess it’s kind of an ultimate case of the choir congratulating the preacher. But hey, what a choir!
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No complaints on this end. Good to see you around, my friend. It’s been a while.
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I’m always watching… Keep up the good work.
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congrats! I finally had a chance to read it through thoroughly, poor dying hydrogen! I do love what’s on the last page 🙂 Didn’t notice it the first rapid read-through.
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Ah, the little surprise 🙂 Yes, poor, poor hydrogen. Why is there not a school of thought dedicated to this travesty!?!
Just read your introduction to
Matthew Archbold… Fun guy!
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ain’t he a peach? 🙂
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A gem! Great find.
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Wow, well done mate. Well earned! Hope you get a nice bump in sales from that endorsement. Wonder how he found it also 🙂
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Cheers brother… Is Brasilia still burning?
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More or less, haha
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Congrats!
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Thanks Matt. Did you see that Paul Handover did a wonderful review on your book?
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Yes, I did see that!
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Wonderful!!! Congratulations 🙂
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Thank you! How have you been?
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I am very good, thank you. We premiered our Brazil film a month ago to a standing ovation here in town.
From what I understand, it is not the style of documentary that usually gets made in Brazil, so I’m excited to see how it will do there…but don’t yet know how distribution is going to work. More soon…
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Brazil film!?! Do tell.
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A feature documentary about people getting evicted before the World Cup and Olympics. Main characters were the indigenous folks at Aldeia Maracana next to Maracana stadium and the folks in Vila Autodromo.
It’s one of the films profiled here – (title: State of Exception)
http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/the-slow-burn-committed-canadian-documentaries-at-hot-docs-2017
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Superb! Why didn’t you tell me you were popping down? Can’t say I’m a fan of Rio, but it would’ve been fun to show you some of the northern SP beaches.
You should cover this current political/corruption mess. It’s epic.
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Oh John, if I make it to Brazil one day, I will look you up no question… but I edit, so rarely leave the small dark room.
And my director friend on this one, well… his wife may not let him ever make a documentary again, and especially not one about Brazil… no money from anywhere to fund it, he was beaten up by the police, just trouble top to bottom.
I have to say, some of the riot scenes we had made me never want to go to Brazil. Maybe it is Rio and not Brazil, I dunno… and of course some of my best friends are Brazilians…
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Rio’s a shithole set in absolute beauty. Northern beaches of SP are way better, though… But don’t tell anyone 😉 And hey, dark edit cubbies are cool! Wine never tastes as good as it does inside one.
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Edit cubbies are way cool… such a creative place.
Okay, when we do the world tour, I’ll skip Rio and aim straight for Northern beaches of SP (and be sure to bring some fine wine…)
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Good, because Brazilian wine is crap 🙂
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A well deserved nod.
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It made my day… And now seeing you back has made this day! 🙂
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Have you seen this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/opinion/sunday/dont-believe-in-god-maybe-youll-try-ufos.html
I think you will also like this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/20/fiction
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Hi my learned Irish friend! Interesting articles, and I agree. Belief in something grander (perhaps something unseen) is delicious on many, many personal levels, and pure Humanism won’t quench that in many, many people. We’re an imaginative lot, and existential death anxiety is very real. Let’s be brutally honest: the Abrahamic religions are nonsense, Aesop’s Tales have far more wisdom than the OT and NT put together, but as these antique religions wane I have a feeling our species will come to embrace things like panpsychism. I see real benefit in that. Gone is the displacement of responsibility which comes with some external overseer, and that can only ever be a positive thing. Buddhists are, in essence, panpsychists; they’re atheists, but spiritual, so the two are not mutually exclusive. Apologists like to try and claim sole dominion over the nebulous thing we call spiritual, but that can’t be logically defended.
Curious, where are you on the sliding scale?
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Saw this, thought you could find this interesting https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/the-false-equation-of-atheism-and-intellectual-sophistication/284406/?utm_source=atlfb
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Thanks. I don’t, however, see atheism as some sort of intellectual one upmanship, rather a reflection on a person’s interest in the world around. I can be interested in art, for example, but utterly horrid at it. Honesty also comes into it, and to be honest (genuinely honest) takes emotional courage, not intellect.
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But then again, many Christian’s don’t really help themselves in being pigeonholed as somewhat wonting in the brains trust
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Hey, John! I just wanted to let you know that I’ve finally got a review up for The Owner of All Infernal Names. Sorry it took me so long. What an awesome read!! Can’t wait to dive into the second book. 🙂
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Excellent, I’m glad you liked it. Theists don’t 🙂
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Haha, I bet they don’t. Ironically, you’re basically arguing their point, just with better evidence as to the nature of God. 😉
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That’s why they don’t like it 😉
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