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Keith Sands
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Cambridge-based, work in ELT publishing / ed tech for a university press. Semi-competent rock climber. Half Man Half Biscuit & Cardiacs enjoyer. Occasional writing and translation.
I'm tired of him in my lifetime.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Have to say I'm also excited by the new possibilities Aptos offers for expressing indifference bordering on contempt
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When Calibri is not enough
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The "equalities watchdog", snarling at the idea of equality
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
And it's 75% self-inflicted.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It's a terse microfiction. The ambiguity about Wilson's motives (outraged moralist, or insecure braggart, who rather rates his own achievements in the field?) remains unresolved. In this essay I will (cont. p94)
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Too music hall, though. The original is on a higher plane.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hahaha, "point by point response" makes this so much funnier
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
He looks uncannily like John Craven.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
That's not where I would put Llanberis.
Otherwise, excellent work.
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Just when you think he couldn't possibly get more patrician contempt into his delivery, he turns it up to 11 with "London's untidy spraawwl" at 15.14
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A really good, strange writer, not fascist. Looking at the dates though, Berg was probably written before the unlikely relationship with Williamson. It was later adapted into a terrible black comedy film called Killing Dad.
October 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
That's, um... I have questions
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Odd coincidence (?) came to mind reading this. The experimental novelist Ann Quin had a relationship with the elderly Williamson in the mid 1960s, and her first novel, written around then, about a disturbed murderer, was titled Berg.
October 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
No I did not! Thanks!

HMHB in NME in the late 80s might be a desert though. They split in 1986 (citing "musical similarities, haha) then reonvened in 1990.
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sounds a great find. If you happen to chance across anything Half Man Half Biscuit related in that lot, I'd be interested to see it (it's for a thing)
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Could be better, could be worse!
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Anyway, hope you're well. The Stirling job sounds like it was a great move.
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
You were loitering in the area of it
October 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM