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happy early Halloween from Vincent Price7 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Okay – and Edgar Allen Poe. And our friends at E-Verse Radio, who brought this wonderful thing … more →

Tags: Stoke Newington, bagatelles, Halloween, e-verse radio, Edgar Allen Poe, Vincent Price, The Raven, stoke newington history, abney park cemetery

remember to scan the Horizon...1 comment

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: … Review, that is. Issue 3 of Britain’s most interesting online cultural poetry and cult … more →

Tags: Ernest Dowson, London, Shameless Puffs, brockley, Horizon Review, Salt Publishing

"by the light of smoking martyrs..."4 comments

msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: “Author and journalist Lynn Barber has withdrawn from a literary festival after the local council re … more →

Tags: death, Music, what IS it with this lot??, funerals, Hymns, Literary festivals, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, PR, PR disasters

a trip to Cirrus Minor, and back again

msbaroque wrote 4 months ago: Well, the Duchess is one of the nicest pubs I think I have ever been to. Well worth the mild anxiety … more →

Tags: the Line on Beauty, balcony, Money, London, Music, Happy, pigs, The past..., Parties

Heaven, I'm in Heaven...2 comments

msbaroque wrote 8 months ago: Well, today would have been my dad, le Duc de Baroque’s 81st birthday, had he not seen fit to … more →

Tags: Birthdays, le Duc, Heaven, Bette Davis

Antony Hegarty: an artistic fact1 comment

msbaroque wrote 8 months ago: I’m listening to Antony and the Johnsons. The new one. It’s a year old, why did I not se … more →

Tags: the Line on Beauty, Music, antony and the johnsons, Crying Light, kazuo ohno, Pontius pilate sales pitch, Jean-Louis Barrault, Antony Hegarty

to sleep, perchance to dream, of Smokey Bear and Anthony Hecht and the wedding sequence from You, the Living6 comments

msbaroque wrote 10 months ago: First of all, we would like to extend our thoughts to our friends and readers in Victoria, Australia … more →

Tags: Birthdays, dream, Hackney, Hecht, ice cream, sleep, The Movies, Bambi, forest fires

now I know why my sofa is so trashed

msbaroque wrote 10 months ago: At least I knew as soon as I saw this bunch of pictures what it was all about (Alfie): the boys were … more →

Tags: dirty couch, kids, Pain in the ass, dry cleaning

the seven things at the year's cusp*6 comments

msbaroque wrote 11 months ago: … and each like a Samurai? Before getting on with 2009 I thought I might do that same as last … more →

Tags: Life, Living With Words, le Duc, Hecht

here's one I prepared earlier9 comments

msbaroque wrote 11 months ago: This is a slightly delayed post, originally intended to go out a few weeks ago for obvious reasons. … more →

Tags: america, Wales, England, John Milton, Families, Daniel Boone, Bishop Morgan, Mary Powell, genealogy

it's Christmas! in Woodstock2 comments

msbaroque wrote 11 months ago: The uncomfortable transatlantic holiday. Sis prepares to fly to North Carolina to have Christmas at … more →

Tags: Christmas, america, Dogs, homesick, woodstock

what the kids are up to

msbaroque wrote 11 months ago: Hey! It’s Christmas. We all know Christmas is about the kids, and that means one thing for sur … more →

Tags: Music, Christmas, Stoke Newington, school concert, Sunny, rock god, stonehenge thunder

coming soon: Christmas3 comments

msbaroque wrote 12 months ago: Don’t worry: I’ve been talking about poetry but I do realise the horror that is upon us. … more →

Tags: The Movies, Christmas, cartoons, Charlie Brown, roy andersson, Bergman, You the living, Urban warrior

the cyclone cometh5 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: It’s nearly here! The cyclone is about to touch earth. My first guest appearance, the first st … more →

Tags: blogging things, Books, Christmas, dream, Me and the Dead, Poetry, Salt

two labyrinths in one day & emerge triumphant (sort of)5 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: Okay. As predicted, your correspondent got everything wrong at the Embassy, or at least enough thing … more →

Tags: Money, Our Crazy World, Useless, Important Things, Salt, baroqueness, embassy, Government, laptop

oh my god, my eternal gazelle is doing overtime!2 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: And it knows some killer words. My favourite bit of all is the part about the pre-famulated amulite. … more →

Tags: Living With Words, retro encabulator, erin o'brien, Rockwell, gazelle

who cares why he's crying? it's still real7 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: And it is even bigger, now it’s here, than we even imagined. I’m not sure it’s pos … more →

Tags: Our Crazy World, Politics, america, election, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Crying, Michael Donald, racism

the long day waned2 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: It was a long day. I was in south London yesterday morning when, at 9am, I had a text message from M … more →

Tags: Life, The Movies, balcony, Books, Money, Living With Words, Useless, Poetry, Music

in which Ms Baroque is 40 per cent too tired to write a blog post7 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: It was the greyest August in 150 years, apparently. Officially. We had only 96 hours of sunshine in … more →

Tags: Life, Ghosts, sleep


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