The Quiet Road

last tweet: @flying_rodent @johnb78 Bit late to this; but you're aware she completely denied making that remark, right? # 2012/05/18

• Articles at 'On This Deity'

  Dorian Cope's excellent website provides a daily glimpse at history through a slightly more revolutionary prism than many of our history books are willing to offer. Sometimes it commemorates people and events which have all but been forgotten. Other times it offers a new perspective on a familiar theme. At all times it's worth reading. I'm honoured to be an occasional contributor to this wonderful archive.

  • 15th February 1989: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
    
  • 7th February 1992: The Maastricht Treaty
    
  • 2nd February 1970: The Death of Bertrand Russell
    
  • 28th January 1939: The Death of William Butler Yeats
    
  • 10th January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes 'Common Sense'
    
  • 19th January 1865: The Death of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
    
  • 28th December 1937: The Birth of the Irish Republic
    
  • 9th December 1987: The First Intifada
    
  • 28th November 2001: The Collapse of Enron
    
  • 27th October 1944: Tito's Partisans liberate Serbia
    
  • 22nd October 1899: Sigmund Freud publishes 'The Interpretation of Dreams'
    
  • 13th October 1909: The Execution of Francisco Ferrer
    
  • 24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes 'On The Origin of Species'
    
  • 18th April 1955: The Death of Albert Einstein
    
  • 7th April 1969: "The Birth of the Internet"
    
  • 5th April 1992: The Siege of Sarajevo
    
  • 24th March 1989: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
    
  • 29th April 1916: The Easter Rising
    
  • 26th February 1994: The Death of Bill Hicks
    
  • 14th March 1883: The Death of Karl Marx
    
  • 19th March 2003: The Beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom
    
  • 12th May 1916: The Execution of James Connolly
    
  • 25th May 2000: Lebanon Liberation Day
    
  • 31st May 1996: The Death of Timothy Leary
    
  • 4th June 1989: The Tiananmen Square Massacre
    
  • 17th June 1972: The Watergate Arrests
    
  • 23rd June 1937: George Orwell flees Spain
    
  • 27th June 1905: The Founding of The Industrial Workers of the World
    
  • 4th July 1980: The Death of Gregory Bateson
    
  • 14th July 1789: The Storming of the Bastille
    
  • 16th July 1945: The Manhattan Project
    
  • 22nd October 1941: The Execution of Guy Môquet
    

• Blogroll

  These are some of the blogs that I regularly read. They cover a whole range of topics, some are updated more than others and I don't necessarily agree with everything written on them all. But they all have something that makes them worth reading.

  • Dreamflesh blog
    Close friend and visionary, Gyrus, blogs occasionally here
  • bellis perennis
    Life in the intersection of the Cambridge geek-goth Venn diagram
  • Consider Phlebas
    Rob Jubb's blog
  • Onwards...
    a few words of a kind…
  • David Byrne's Journal
    Musician, artist and all-round inspiration
  • bristling badger
    Dear friend and fellow traveller, Merrick, blogs here
  • Banditry
    The idle musings of John B
  • The Early Days of a Better Nation
    Science fiction writer and left-wing thinker, Ken MacLeod, does his blogging here
  • The Far Queue
    Fiction, poetry and assorted musings from the ever-enigmatic Pisces Iscariot
  • Between the Hammer and the Anvil
    Flying Rodent's blog
  • The whole damn world
    Paul's blog
  • The Virtual Stoa
    Chris Brooke's excellent blog
  • The Gaping Silence
    The musings of writer and academic, Phil Edwards
  • The Curmudgeon
    Writer and satirist Philip Challinor blogs here
  • Sparrow chat
    The Website of R J Adams
  • On This Deity
    Dorian Cope's wonderful daily look at history. I'm an occasional guest writer here.
  • Michael Greenwell
    Michael Greenwell's blog
  • Biroco Journal
    This irregularly updated journal by writer, sorcerer and excellent drinking-partner, Joel Biroco, contains some of the finest writing on the web.
  • The Doom That Came To Ambridge
    The dark truth about The Archers, as channelled by the mysterious mudkipstoat23
  • Politico.ie
    Offering an alternative look at Irish politics and society

• Blogs in hiatus

  Blogs come and go. People lose interest, or they no longer have enough time, or they move to another venue. The websites in this list are ones that have not been updated in a while but which still hold the tantalising promise of revival at some stage in the future. On top of that they warrant a link because there's still an awful lot of good writing to be found in the archives.

  • Dust on The Stylus
    As well as blogging over at Bristling Badger, Merrick runs a sporadically-updated music blog which I hope to promote back to the main blogroll in the near future.
  • Random speak
    L once delighted the internet with witty updates from Florida. Then there was a spate of excellent collages. And then, sadly, just silence.
  • A Daisy Through Concrete
    Politics and performance poetry from Danny Chivers
  • Cows in Movies
    Another of Merrick's online projects, this one's been down for so long it seems unlikely it'll rise again. But we live in hope.
  • punkscience
    Thoughts and rants from the punkscientist

• Music

  Although there's a couple of music-orientated sites within the blogroll, these are music websites that are not blogs.

  • Philip Jeays
    London-based singer-songwriter whose gigs feature in many of my best live-music memories. Caustic, witty, warm and moving -- often all at once.
  • Rhythmic Ginger
    Need a drummer? Need a percussionist? Need Adam? Look no further!
  • Head Heritage
    There's a lot more to Julian Cope than the music. And there's a lot more to his website too. But it's a starting point, eh?
  • Strawberry Switchblade
    There was precious little information to be found online about 80s pop band, Strawberry Switchblade. Merrick rectified that.
  • Radio Savage Houndy Beasty
    Music, humour and high weirdness from the Leeds-based coolective. MEAT!
  • Slumberwall
    Music and more from Leeds-based Slumberwall
  • Glad to be Gay
    Merrick put together this website to detail the history of Tom Robinson's seminal protest song.
  • iotacism
    Zali makes some of the best spaced-out music this side of Orion's belt.
  • Freq Music Magazine
    Where once there was music, now let there be noise. Excellent music review site.

• Peak oil

  Regular readers of my blog will be aware that I regularly cover the issue of Peak Oil, and the wider problems of resource depletion of which it is a part. These sites will provide more info.

  • Biofuel Watch
    Exposing the destructive insanity behind the Biofuel "solution" to Peak Oil
  • The Coming Global Oil Crisis
    Plenty of information and even some crumbs of hope
  • Peak Oil News and Message Boards
    An excellent site dealing with resource depletion
  • Die Off / America 2.0
    The website that first turned a thousand people onto issues of Peak Oil, resource depletion and sustainability. From Jay Hanson.
  • The Oil Drum
    A comprehensive news source for energy issues
  • Jeremy Leggett dot net
    Dr. Leggett is a petroleum geologist whose site provides an excellent newsfeed of peak oil and energy crisis related stories. Well worth a bookmark.

• The rest

  A collection of sites that don't have a category of their own. A lot of them are friends and allies who I want to link to.

  • Dreamflesh
    A wealth of wonderful stuff can be found at Gyrus' website. Get his books, listen to his slidecast, read his essays and generally luxuriate in interesting information well-presented. The world's damn lucky to have Gyrus in it. As is my life.
  • Godhaven Ink
    Independent and inspirational publishing coolective. From whence sprang of Bristling Badger, Slumberwall, Dreamflesh and Rhythmic Ginger amongst others
  • Ring Forth Web Studio
    Freelance web development (ColdFusion programming and WordPress customisation a speciality) from Yours Truly
  • Megalithomania
    A comprehensive encyclopaedia of ancient Irish monuments compiled by Tom Fourwinds

• follow me on Twitter

  • @flying_rodent @johnb78 Bit late to this; but you're aware she completely denied making that remark, right? # 2012/05/18
  • RT @andrewadams99: Mr Gallagher, your evidence appears to be nothing but a rehash of the earlier testimony from Mr Lennon and Mr McCartn ... # 2012/05/11
  • Ms Harry... grand theft auto, murder and cannibalism. Do you really expect us to believe your story about a man from Mars? #popleveson # 2012/05/11
  • But Mr. Farrell, you yourself admit that you were caught red-handed #popleveson # 2012/05/11
  • Mr. Ryder alleges he was coerced into crucifying some brother today. Frankly, this court finds that claim somewhat dubious #popleveson # 2012/05/11
  • You may well say to yourself, Mr. Byrne, that this is not your beautiful wife. However the evidence suggests otherwise. #popleveson # 2012/05/11
  • Politico.ie | The politics of fear is no politics at all http://t.co/8I0vDBMu # 2012/05/10