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- Dave Awl, ocelotfactory.com

"Keep up the good (and, it seems, prolific) work"
- David Thair, BBC Collective


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- Julie Christensen, stonecupid.com

 

"It's very nice"

- Keith's mum

 

"I've not been able to look at it for a while"

- Gareth B. Oyo
 

 

Cover of 'All My Own Work'

All My Own Work

 

Exclusive to Thoughtcat: Stephen Miles's unreliable memoir of love, loss, writing and rice soup

 

The Slickman A4 Quotation Event

SA4QE 2008

 

Spreading the Word of Russell Hoban - lots of updates from February 2008 including new quotes, new participants, image slideshow - and revealed at last, the most popular quotes of all time!

 

 

A Riddley fan gets to grips with the Devvil, Waterford, 17/11/07

Blog

 

Recently posted: Riddley Walker in Waterford, Facebookage and letters to the editor

 

 

Len comes in from the cold

Leonard Cohen and me

 

Including concert reviews, convention memoirs, TV interview transcripts and videos of TC's open mic performances

 


 

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Thoughtcat in France

 

 

Thoughtcat's 2003 Tour de France

 

The Graduate

 

Thoughtcat's exclusive interview with Charles Webb,

author of The Graduate and Home School

 

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Fame at last... Thoughtcat profiled in the local paper

Jacket of "Pompey's Head" by Hamilton Basso

 

 

Thoughtcat's retro book dustcover collection

 

Richard Riverside by Richmond Cooper

 

 

Thoughtcat's original photographs, short stories and poetry

 

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Highlights from the original blog

 

Make tea not war

 

 

The anti-war march, 15th February 2003

 

Rik Cooper de "londre"

 

 

The story of the guitar case

 

The man with the thoughtcat in the palm of his hand

 

 

The man with the Thoughtcat in the palm of his hand

 

 

Tony, the pure white Himalayan

 

 

Whitewashcat

 

Ian MacDonald

 

 

Beatles aficionado Ian MacDonald 1948-2003

 

The Concert for George

 

 

The Concert for George - a detailed review

 

Ty Newydd

 

 

A creative writing course in Wales

 

That Googlewhacky Dave Gorman

 

 

Googlewhacking

 

Aaaarrrgghhh!

 

 

School phobia: a memoir

 

They Might Be Giants

 

 

McSweeney's vs They Might Be Giants - detailed concert review

 

Me and my spoon

 

 

My teaspoon, my wife and me

 

Cooking with Paxo

Jeremy Paxman and other TV chefs

 


EVEN MORE THOUGHTCATEGORIES

 

Custard

 

Underneath the archives... thoughtcats and catthoughts past

 

noel noel

 

Noel Gallagher reads the submissions to the Noel Gallagher four-noun autobiography title game*

 

purrr

 

Prick up your ears to how people really speak

 

yum

 

A rather nicer hamburger than was generally served at the restaurant Thoughtcat worked in during the late eighties

 

miaow

 

An account of a trip to (and a wedding in) Thailand

 

graoul

 

Thoughtcat links (not all of which are Iberian)

 

Thoughtcat protests

 

Where I'm calling from:

who is this thoughtcharacter anyway? And what breed is he?

 


THOUGHTCAT FAVOURITES

 

Clipper Arabica coffee

 

yorkshire tea

 

cape promise cab sav

 

Waitrose

 

Puccino's

 

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Rik "Richard" Cooper I.O.M.3. - in ur web, eatin ur bizkitz

 

Auntie Elizabeth - ukulele, backing vocals and Tiny Tim collection

 

Chris Bell - bass

 

Charlie - doublebase

 

Roland Clare - enthusiasmophone

 

Francois de Ronneaux-Bradbeer - not getting in your facebook-o-phone

 

Tommy M - up north for a nickelsworth (allegedly)

 

Ruthie Bosch - musical laughter, accordion & Piaf wobble

 

Peter Gibbons played menorcaphone on track 4

 

Gareth Vernew-Zealand - Tour de France, stage 102.2

 

Uncle Russ - sarod, inspiration and bespoke poetry

 

Joe - pounding out a rhythm on my head

 

Dr Yvonne - right angel

 

Dave Awl - awl other opotamuses

 

Auntie Fiona is (probably) on holiday

 

K. F. Awcus would like it to be made clear that he has nothing to do with this website

 

M. Z. Dickmont would like it to be known that he hates teh interwebs, a feeling shared only by one George W. Bush

 

Yes, here are yet more links to my exclusive interview with Charles Webb, who (whom?) you may have gathered by now is the author of The Graduate

 

Those invited to appear but unable to make it include Mister Universe, Joe Hill, Wolfgang Amadeus Jolson, Ethel Rosenberg, Uncle Tom, Little Boy Blue and Rabbi Sigmund Freud (name the connection for extra points!)

 

"As they say in the business, it's a gig" - Loyd P. Fink

 

The asterisk

Okay, Noel is actually reading something called 'Best of Friends' - bastard!

 

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