C.A. Monks

The right seems to be in a self-radicalising feedback loop. They appear to want to take extreme positions on everything.
No nuance. No moderation. No thought.
it's not good enough. We need a sensible right for us to have balanced politics and reasoned debate. They need to stop their navel gazing.

The Last Hope in Hell

Long is the path and hard,
that leads out of Hell and into the Light.

#kindle

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Available now on Kindle.

Long is the path and hard,
that leads out of Hell and into the Light.

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Work in progress.
Not sure how I'm taking this forward. Super loose? Correction? Lean into impressionism?

I'll figure it out. Probably.

90x60. Oil on canvas. Mostly raw umber, cad orange, white, Prussian blue, Paynes grey.

Wondering if I could do that again in an extremely loose style.

#art

"Eventually, every quote will be attributed to Mark Twain." - Mark Twain.

Coming soon...

Had to try out the new easel. A quick 40 min painting.

#art
#MerryChristmas

I see it as backlog clearing. An emergency measure. (Obviously, open to abuse through permanency)

But... what else can they do? Is there a better alternative you could suggest that would speed up justice?

Btw, loved your first book. I recommend it to everyone when I talk about this subject.

Landscape in oils on canvas.

Liquin. Prussian blue, paynes grey, burnt sienna, vandyke brown, lemon yellow, white.

"An author must have a social media platform to get a publishing deal." - George Orwell, 23rd October 1984.

It all seems pointless. The entire industry seems to be based on what idiot celebrity can sell substandard shit to morons.

Fuck 'em.
I'll write.
It's what I love.

Today, someone accused me of being woke.

Yeah. Thanks for the compliment.

I've tried portraits twice and failed each time. It's so difficult. The margin of error is so narrow.

You've nailed this. It's so good. Congratulations. Bask in the pride, you've earned it.

Everybody is a fucking idiot.

You, me, them, everybody.

Realise, compensate, THINK!

I'd planned to write today. Yesterday, I mentally prepared myself to have a long 7-8 hour writing session on my new novel.

So, naturally, I painted this instead...

The essential satire of the summer.
#reading
#booksky
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The essential satire of the summer.

#reading
#booksky

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Rock and roll tsar.

Olivia Rodrigo has a new fan. I'm going to add her to the list of women I'm totally in love with.

Currently: 109,783.

If you go back a million minutes, you're in February.

If you go back a billion minutes you're in the 1990's.

If you go back a trillion minutes, you're arguing with God about the shape of mountains.

(Nb: some of this might be mostly inaccurate)

Watched a bit of #Glastonbury on TV. So far, the highlights have been Wet Leg, Franz Ferdinand, and Neil Young.

So talented, but they make it look so effortless.

I'm getting a weird sensation that i should write a biography of the Austrian singer Falco.

I'm trying to ignore the signs. My efforts aren't working.

Oh, that's interesting.
I can't stand it. All the queuing and the time it takes irritates me.

I've just written a piece for a website (I might get around to creating eventually) on how to present liminality in novels without resorting to life events.

Yes, to me it's odd. But each to their own!

I love being in new places, but I could do without the traveling part of it all.

(I know you were using "travelling" figuratively)

Neil Young just has that ge nay say quwa.

(Pardon my French)

He is a fucking legend, though.

Oh, I'm so ahead of the curve...

I thought rod stewart was a twat yonks ago. His songs are crap, his style is crap, his personality is crap.
Quite frankly, I was hoping for the apocalypse only for the reason that he lives relatively close to me and I'd be justified using him as food in an emergency

I'm sure who ever it is will be "too woke" and "not as good as Sean Connery" in a million news articles.

What if Yoda wanted to be circumcised?

I'm willing to give bluesky a proper go, but the engagement level is woeful.
This is probably a waste of my time.