International Day for Tolerance (for people with bad facial hair)

Be kind to those lessfortunate than Burt Reynolds.And give them money.
( Mo below the cut. )

recursive retrospective

When I was in the States earlier this year for the release of Writers of the Future Volume XXIII, I was whisked away one morning to a magnificent recording studio, thrust in front of a microphone, and handed a copy of Volume XIX.

This was the book for which I'd written an essay about what it was like coming back to the award I'd won ten years earlier.

And here for your aural pleasure is the result of that recording session.

I remember finding that article very difficult to write. How to sum up a decade of good memories and lessons learned in a way that would make sense to anyone else? I'm not sure if I did a good job or made a real mess of it. Probably the latter, which is why I had another stab at it earlier this year.

Anyway, this is what I sound like when I'm jet-lagged and trying to channel myself from five years ago trying to channel myself from 1993. Enjoy!