by Paul Stephenson | Dec 24, 2019 | Music, Stupid Challenges
Part One Part two Part Three Part Four Here we are at the end of my countdown of the 50 greatest albums of the last decade, spread out as they are over five days in the lead up to Christmas like I’m some kind of a demented cross between an advent calendar and...
by Paul Stephenson | Dec 23, 2019 | Music, Stupid Challenges
Part One Part two Part Three Hey’ it’s nearly Christmas. And what says the birth of baby Yoda better than listening to a bloke the wrong side of forty waxing lyrical about a half-forgotten Sweet Cobra album like it is itself the second coming?Let’s crack on, shall...
by Paul Stephenson | Dec 22, 2019 | Music, Stupid Challenges
Part One Part Two Every day between now and Xmas I’m running down my top 50 albums of the decade, for nobody’s amusement but my own. However, please enjoy watching me pleasure myself.No, wait! Not like that!DISCLAIMER: These choices are presented as exactly that. I am...
by Paul Stephenson | Dec 21, 2019 | Music, Stupid Challenges
Do you know what’s a really good way of procrastinating? Turns out, making a list of your top 50 albums of the last decade. Yesterday we had 50-41, so let’s crack on, shall we?DISCLAIMER: These choices are presented as exactly that. I am not claiming this to be the...
by Paul Stephenson | May 13, 2019 | Books, Self Publishing, Stupid Challenges, Writing, Writing Chronicles
As I contemplated the third anniversary of my becoming a published man of letters, there was one thing that stuck out as being ‘not quite right’ amongst my back catalogue. A black sheep, you might say. Welcome to Discovery Park, the years-long chronicle of my idiotic...
by Paul Stephenson | Oct 8, 2018 | Nanowrimo, Stupid Challenges, Writing, Writing Chronicles
I love NaNoWriMo, the yearly escapade of struggling writers everywhere where we collectively throw ourselves off a cliff of sanity in pursuit of a 50,000 word count and a printable pdf certificate. This year, since I’m completely new to where I live, I’m doubly...