As well as the RSS feed and this webpage, splinters' posts are now available by email. You need to sign up to the Splinters Yahoo! Group. Once you've done...
Splinters friend Halvard Halvorsen has recently launched AceCast.com , which provides bespoke podcasts. What that means is that Halvard pulls together a bunch...
Just cranked out a review of Atomic Swindlers' debut album Coming Out Electric. I also just received a very stylish t-shirt from them too, although I should've...
Have just finished reading the piece on Atomic Swindlers, this sort of intertext clash between Blondie and Bowie, which I must admit sounds interesting. But...
This isn't a good year for literature, is it? Steve is going to be upset. There's a full list of Google News stories on Bellow's passing. I only read Bellow's...
To be honest I'm finding that this year, or at lest the past twelve months, to be rather interesting for the novel - it just depends where one goes to have a...
This review from the Metro freebie newspaper in the UK, thanks to our own Ben Granger: "No webzine provides better coverage of the counter-cultural, subversive...
Rocky Morrow sent me this snippet from screenwriting.ugo.com : How would you cope if you turned into the opposite sex? Scribe Matt Nix adapted Cock and Bull,...
Rocky Morrow sent me this snippet from screenwriting.ugo.com : How would you cope if you turned into the opposite sex? Scribe Matt Nix adapted Cock and Bull,...
Looks like I'm another one to join the massed ranks of David Sedaris admirers. Reading the pages of praise that introduce Me Talk Pretty One Day, it's hard to...
I wonder if it will work. Nice. -- Chris Mitchell Writer. Web Designer. Scuba Instructor. www.chrismitchell.org -- Posted by Chris to test at 3/27/2005...
I've just redone scattered , my travel/Thailand/scuba diving blog, to use the same basic template as splinters. It looks rather nice. I've been posting quite a...
Er..yea it does work...amazing that init.... ____________________________________________________________________________ www.plymouthblog.freewebpages.org Of...
Sort of. A download, micropayment kind of thing that could provide a new source of income for writers. Full fascinating details at Publishers Weekly . This...
Spike contributor Brendan Wolfe has a review of Duong Thu Huong's new novel No Man's Land over at January Magazine . Huong is an acclaimed Vietnamese novelist...
Spike contributor Brendan Wolfe has a review of Duong Thu Huong's new novel No Man's Land over at January Magazine . Huong is an acclaimed Vietnamese novelist...
Pamela Ribon: Amazon has a brand new evil feature . More on Pamela Ribon: Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia | Open Directory -- Posted by...
Pamela Ribon: Amazon has a brand new evil feature . More on Pamela Ribon: Spike | Google | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Wikipedia | Open Directory -- Posted by...
Bill Hicks described himself as "Noam Chomsky with dick jokes". With the upcoming British election, we just have the dick jokes . More on the British election:...
The Guardian reports Hunter S. Thompson's final wish will be granted when his ashes are blasted from a giant cannon. Apparently it's scheduled to happen in...
Bill Hicks described himself as "Noam Chomsky with dick jokes". With the upcoming British election, we just have the dick jokes . More on the British election:...
The Guardian reports Hunter S. Thompson's final wish will be granted when his ashes are blasted from a giant cannon. Apparently it's scheduled to happen in...
With the anniversary of Bergen-Belsen, a good time to read Lenin's scorching analysis of Jonathan Freedland's review of Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust...
The Guardian reports Hunter S. Thompson's final wish will be granted when his ashes are blasted from a giant cannon. Apparently it's scheduled to happen in...
Max Hasting writes about Amazon buying print-on-demand publishing company BookSurge . This could open up POD completely - if the cost of publishing is reduced...
Back in the late 1980s when British music journalism was at its zenith, there were some outstanding writers for Melody Maker and NME. Steve Sutherland, Simon...
Just found this interview with Simon Price with which states Melody Maker's brilliance quite beautifully: "I started getting more and more into music, and...
I must admit to have been looking forward to this new Simon Reynolds for some time. It's about time that the history of rock was moved out in to the eighties...
