The Perspective View
This is where I talk about myself, and eventually collect the stuff I don’t consider as ephemeral as the rest, and mention Responders long after they’ve forgotten. All in no particular order.
Me
Not to be confused with Me Me Me, which is further down.
From the back page of my as-yet-unpublished first novel: “Stuart James is a musician manqué… He is not Stu James of The…medium.com
Publications, pieces for Publications and other grouping arrangements.
Pieces for The Weekly Knob;
Finding humour in events that are not at all funny
It should not be necessary to say this. It really should not.
One day there may be a Part 3.
Laughing in the face of fear
It’s not nice.
[Promoted to here from my bio so that I can reference these characters when I need to. Which is all too often]medium.com
They are not nice.
Americans in the audience, I’m talking primarily to you. Please get through to the end of this if you can, it’s not too…medium.com
And as for him… There’s more of Me Me Me in this than I intended. In fact it’s all Me Me Me: “Look what I did! See how clever I am!” Does that sound familiar?
I considered moving this from LITFOF to Me Me Me, but as time passed the Fear only got worse.
The wise and thoughtful Alexainie read this piece and quietly made my day.
Parody provoked by malgorithms
You asked for this, machines.
People often ask me, how do I get to that awkward top shelf? Here, I share my secret. Don’t forget to heart me! Let’s…medium.com
Ideally this one should get a million Reads and no Hearts, except the one that Abbie gave it.
History
The bronze disc, the size of a modern CD, bears the name Arthur Brown. That’s about as ordinary as a name can be.medium.com
A while ago I wrote a piece about Arthur Brown, who had died a hundred years before in the First World War. I tried to…medium.com
Music
“Stevie Wonder might be in tonight,” Len said, with his usual leering grin. Len could make Pass the salt sound like an…festivalpeak.com
1972. Leonard Cohen has been in the UK before, notably for an Isle of Wight Festival (the Hendrix/ELP one, not the…festivalpeak.com
[Recommended listening: Neil Young Live At Massey Hall January 1971]medium.com
Peotry
As in “Peotry is sissy stuff that rhymes” — Nigel Molesworth. Mine doesn’t, mostly, and it’s supposed to speak for itself, so here you go.
Me Me Me
This one proves what I always say about never discarding ideas: it started off as a failed 100–word story, and eventually expanded into this rumination about modern manners, which was briefly an Editors’ Choice. There’s always something.
If you’re going to run a Folk Club, a room over a pub is a good place, and Friday night is a good time. People like to…medium.com
Unclassified Silliness
The Perspective View — credits
The image at the top won me a CD signed by one of its participants.
I had the pic printed on a T-shirt and wore it to the next event I could reach where said pen-wielding participant was playing, and collected another signature. I got myself signed by a star...
Picture components: NASA, Jefferson Airplane. Collage: me. Yes, I know the lighting angles are wrong.
