Eulogy for Philip Hadley
the speech i read at my grandfather’s funeral
Tag: Scott Manley Hadley
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
#TotNTV: Sam Jordison’s Enemies of the People
Final #TotNTV for a bit, sad face, but great chat!
#TotNTV: Gary Budden, Writer & Publisher
Budden on Budden
Paraside Lost by John Milton
Imagine if the songs in Rocky Horror were shit
#TotNTV: Travelling the Balkans
Come explore the Balkans with sound and visuals!!!
#TotNTV: Susan Curtis-Kojakovic & Publishing The Balkans
I chat to Susan Curtis-Kojakovic, the women behind Istros Books, an independent publisher specialising in works from the Balkans.
#TotNTV: Birmingham & the West Midlands
Shakespeare ‘n’ Sabbath
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
#TotNTV: Sheffield
A new episode, a new place: Sheffield
BoJack Horseman
Scott Manley Hadley reviews TV.
#TotNTV: London
live by the river
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
#TotNTV: England
ingerlaaaand, ingerlaaaaand, ingerland ingerland naaa naaa
Just Sold My Banjo
Scott Manley Banjo
#TotNTV: Place
Nikolaidis, Li, Frears on Place
#TotNTV: Clothing & Identity
William Wyld & Chris Nelson discuss the relationship between clothing and identity.
#TotNTV: SEX
Chris Nelson, Ella Frears, David Ralfe & William Wyld chat sex.
#TotNTV: Chris Jones on Prison
Chris Jones speaks about a hyper male environment.
#TotNTV: Asking Questions About Gender
Potentially ill-judged exploration of gender from a cis white man
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
Dreaming In Starlight by Philip Elliott
I review an eBook for another website.
Rebuttal from Lewis Parker
A disgruntled former reviewee comes back to work packing heat.
Pissing off White Men Again
Some tweet responses from my latest HuffPost article.
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
A pointless book for pointless people.
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
busy busy busy busy
I’ve been busy busy busy doing lots of different things, including writing two new articles for the Huffington Post andContinue Reading
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
On Urinals
How many men must a man urinate in front of before you can call him a man?
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Hipster military history: if you’re not cool, this isn’t for you…
on enraging the public
PAY ME ATTENTION
Beautiful Christmas Music Video
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Music act SOLID BALD performs ‘SexBomb’
Life means nothing. So you may as well sing:
“Cuban Prostitutes” from Tell Me About Love
In memory of Fidel Castro, some prose inspired by Pedro Juan Gutierrez from a decade ago.
[sung] oooh, fellas: what’s ya dicksiiiize?
A 4 second Noise Piece and a link to more madness at the HuffPo
Preacher: Book Four by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher is fine, but it’s irrelevant to real life. I should adopt a Syrian child refugee.
Hip-Scott “En Toure”: The Documentary
Hip-Scott, flailing, live in Marseille.
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
All Men Must Die, innit?
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
do u have a sexist friend?
relentlessly promoting my anti-london agenda
Triumph Of The Now 