Teenage Kicks: QRG At The Good Men Project

I was delighted to get the chance recently to edit a theme at the Good Men Project website. I chose teenage kicks  and sought out articles by and about young men and teenagers.  These are the ones which have been published: Bully : Surviving School by Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy): http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/bully-surviving-school/comment-page-1/#comment-163054 Advice for parents of teens by [...]

It Gets Worse: WordPress’ New Comments Policy

A slightly worrying note from anna racoon’s blog: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/wordpress-com-and-comments/#comment-55815 ‘Apparently the problem can be traced back to a troll who had been posting comments using the e-mail address and avatar of Matt Cutts. Matt who? For the uninitiated, Matt Cutts is the CEO of Google, and when you are the CEO of Google being annoyed [...]

QRG LIVES! A Links Round – Up

The last week or so has not been brilliant for QRG Towers. There is a chance you may have read some pretty nasty things about me online. At one point I considered the possibility that I might have to shut up shop altogether. So I am very relieved and delighted to announce that… QRG LIVES! [...]

A Note About Metrosexy, @marksimpsonist ‘s Tour de Force

Any of you who have been reading QRG for any length of time, will know that I helped and supported Mark Simpson publish his 2011 Book, Metrosexy. And that I continue to refer to it, review it and promote it to this day. Why wouldn’t I? It is bloody marvellous. But Simpson has removed some of [...]

Mark Simpson’s Pitbull Speaks!

I get called a lot of names. Some of them are in relation to the work I do advocating the ideas of Mark Simpson. One of the names that stuck with me the most, was Mark Simpson’s Pitbull. When I was first given that moniker, by an uptight supergay gay American man, I was annoyed. It [...]

Unethical Sluts – My Book Available On Amazon Now!

I finally got it together to publish my collection of stories and essays, Unethical Sluts. You can buy it for the ridiculously low price of £1.07 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unethical-Sluts-ebook/dp/B005ZU10HW From the blurb: ‘Short stories and essays from the sidelines of pornography’ 12 stories and essays exploring the horny, the comic, and the macabre aspects of [...]

Foucault’s Daughter and Zizek Press

Foucault’s Daughter was lucky enough to find a home at the wonderful, surreal and challenging house of Zizek Press, a while ago now. And she is settling in just fine. Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist, maybe one of the last remaining examples of that rare and ancient species. Zizek Press though, [...]

The Curse Of The Green-Eyed Monster

I normally can’t bear writing advice, except for the only thing I have ever listened to from a writer whose name I forget: If you want to be a good writer, write. I have a book called ‘A Novel IN A Year’ that remains barely opened, and yet I managed to complete a (short) novel [...]

Letters From An Alien: Trick

  There is this trick (you will have played it on yourself) where a writer writes something very personal and somehow manages to convince him/herself that on finishing it, it will magically turn into just another book. That is detached from the personal things it refers to. But that is the point when it becomes [...]

Nietzsche Was Right

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexually. Sterility itself disposes one toward a certain masculinity of taste; for man is, if I may say so, “the sterile animal.” -Nietzsche (photo via @rachaelewilliams)