Michael Marshall's Blog, page 9

I didn’t write this post

… but I feel I should share it. It’s a piece of spam sent to this very site, but a deeply beautiful one. I can only assume it’s an actual interview from somewhere, put through the translation mangle, but who can fail to thrill to exchanges like: “You grasp a rightly slim choose, does this [...]

I didn't write this post

… but I feel I should share it. It's a piece of spam sent to this very site, but a deeply beautiful one. I can only assume it's an actual interview from somewhere, put through the translation mangle, but who can fail to thrill to exchanges like: "You grasp a rightly slim choose, does this [...]

Neither is this one

… and in the end, the problem with the blog turned out to be a sodding virus. This was finally proved by the fate of one poor person's laptop (sorry Kate), which got melted. Thankfully, the laptop seems to now be working again, and after three hours last night spent re-installing stuff and hand-cutting the [...]

This is not a proper post

No really, it's not. Feel free to go back to whatever you were doing. I'm just slinging up a post to see whether doing so fixes one of the borkednesses about this blog at the moment, which a week or so ago suddenly started looking like the output of a deranged mind – and then [...]

Yes, Insanely Great

I'm sitting with a Macbook Air on my lap. My iPad is close by, as is my son's iPod Touch, and my iPhone. The latter is no surprise. I have my iPhone with me at all times. Unless I'm actually in the shower, then if I'm awake it's within a yard of me at the [...]

Not Being Here Now

A few nights ago I watched a fascinating program called "My Life As A Turkey", about a man named Joe Hutto. Hutto is (amongst other things) a hardcore method naturalist, and this drama-documentary detailed a period back in 1995 when he lived as the 'mother' of a brood of endangered wild turkeys — an experience [...]

The Sons of the Fathers

I'm off doing events in Manchester (tonight, 7:00), Glasgow (Thursday) and Belfast (Friday) this week, as tomorrow marks the official UK publication of my new novel, KILLER MOVE. The book is set in Florida, specifically in Sarasota and Longboat Key. This is an area I know pretty well from my childhood, albeit as a vacation [...]

UK Book Tour

Just to let you know that there are three events planned around the publication of KILLER MOVE in the UK. Wednesday 6 July 2011 at 7:00PM Waterstones, Manchester Deansgate 0843 290 8485 www.waterstones.com Thursday 7 July 2011 at 6:30PM Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street Glasgow Southern Scotland 0843 290 8345 Friday 8 July 2011 at 6:30PM No [...]

Read This, And Get Legs

I've become slightly obsessed by the spam comments I'm getting on this blog, and thought I'd share a few more with you. Sadly, I'm not seeing much poetry or koan-style wisdom in this fresh batch… though a few do possess a certain verve: "Man its an enjoyable experience of the season going to the 2-tracks [...]

The Sound of One Man Spamming

This morning I was alerted by the ever-vigilant automated elves within my WordPress install to the danger that I'd received possible spam on this blog. I went to check it out — anything to avoid work — and discovered the following: "Pretty section of content. I just stumbled upon your website and in accession capital [...]