The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

  Someone wrote a thoughtful reply to my long essay on AI!  It is worth getting up in the morning after all!! Stephen Brohan Reading and wri...

  Patreon Subscribers have advanced access to my latest "boxed set".  Part 1: Conjuring tricks with bones.  Part 2: Occam's ra...

1: Shanties and Slop: Why do all gig posters look the same? 2: Television and Steam Trains : What would my granny have said . 3: Authors and...

Patreon supporters are currently getting to read pages ripped from my writers diary: a little more chatty and personal than my main essays. ...

Here is another thought experiment.   Suppose there were a blogger who had an idea about writing comic strips.  Writing about his life, say....

I still have a fondness for the novellas of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote ten and a bit John Carter of Mars novels, and an impressive twe...

May I share something with you? As I type these exact words that I am typing, I am sometimes quite conscious of thinking, not “how shall I e...