Neil Willcox, Son of a Beekeeper
@neilwillcox.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
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Lowering the quality of the internet since 2006
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It's sadly that time again; a post of other places I can be found on the internet if you're thinking of leaving the site.
1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
1. My blog, Night Of The hats, which I update most days, is on blogspot because I have never moved it /1
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
I'm supposed to be in training for the big charity car wash but my mentor keeps making me do sick martial arts moves. This is going to be a disaster, all the bikini car wash girls will laugh at me.
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I'm supposed to be in training for the big charity car wash but my mentor keeps making me do sick martial arts moves. This is going to be a disaster, all the bikini car wash girls will laugh at me.
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It's okay to have a first draft that's bad. The second draft? Also awful. The third draft, that's rubbish, toss it away. Now the fourth draft, we're getting somewhere, and by somewhere I mean it's bad. The fifth draft? Forget about it. The sixth draft, probably unreadable. Seven drafts, terrible. Ei
January 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM
It's okay to have a first draft that's bad. The second draft? Also awful. The third draft, that's rubbish, toss it away. Now the fourth draft, we're getting somewhere, and by somewhere I mean it's bad. The fifth draft? Forget about it. The sixth draft, probably unreadable. Seven drafts, terrible. Ei
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A bone-armored chieftain of Urazad (and his thrall), from the alpine plateaus above Karazad. Many of the tribes of Urazad allied with the Domekans during their invasion, eager for loot and revenge.
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A bone-armored chieftain of Urazad (and his thrall), from the alpine plateaus above Karazad. Many of the tribes of Urazad allied with the Domekans during their invasion, eager for loot and revenge.
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I read Thomas Cromwell, a history of Thomas Cromwell. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...
I Read Books: Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story Of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant Thomas Cromwell’s later career, after he became Henry VIII’s c...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I read Thomas Cromwell, a history of Thomas Cromwell. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...
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I think the coin-flipping mini-game is bugged
Time to make a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern first-person shooter
Checking to see if Tom Stoppard wrote any videogames so I can add to the discussion but not even one Call of Duty, not even a single existential Conker game on the résumé
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I think the coin-flipping mini-game is bugged
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Yeah my verse is too dangerous to share with the public too, that's why I haven't published any this year
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yeah my verse is too dangerous to share with the public too, that's why I haven't published any this year
Okay I'll try this again tomorrow but less incoherent
Me: before embarking on revenge, dig two graves
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Okay I'll try this again tomorrow but less incoherent
Me: before embarking on revenge, dig two graves
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Me: before embarking on revenge, dig two graves
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
My protegee: one for my target and one for my target right?
Me, the town gravedigger: sure, why not
As a middle-aged Englishman I actually treat fellow writers better than my friends because my friends are people who shout across crowded bars "Oi Neil you wanker, what are you having?"
Fun fact: Fellow authors are friends. Treat them nicely 💙
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As a middle-aged Englishman I actually treat fellow writers better than my friends because my friends are people who shout across crowded bars "Oi Neil you wanker, what are you having?"
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(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)
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Ooh missis, oh well please yourselves! We're going UP THE CHASTITY BELT (1971) with #FrankieHowerd at 9:45pm #TPTVsubtitles
Co-stars #EarthaKitt #AnnaQuayle #RoyHudd comedy on #TPTV
Co-stars #EarthaKitt #AnnaQuayle #RoyHudd comedy on #TPTV
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ooh missis, oh well please yourselves! We're going UP THE CHASTITY BELT (1971) with #FrankieHowerd at 9:45pm #TPTVsubtitles
Co-stars #EarthaKitt #AnnaQuayle #RoyHudd comedy on #TPTV
Co-stars #EarthaKitt #AnnaQuayle #RoyHudd comedy on #TPTV
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Here is Socrates, sitting on a bench, minding his own business, books under his arm and a scroll in his hand, as an unnamed woman emerges from the house behind him to pour her chamber-pot's pissy contents all over him.
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here is Socrates, sitting on a bench, minding his own business, books under his arm and a scroll in his hand, as an unnamed woman emerges from the house behind him to pour her chamber-pot's pissy contents all over him.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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cannibal innkeepers are weirdly ubiquitous across cultures. i see the primal fear at work, what if this stranger giving me a place to sleep is untrustworthy, but the conclusion "so probably they'll eat me" seems to follow across a remarkable number of times and places
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
cannibal innkeepers are weirdly ubiquitous across cultures. i see the primal fear at work, what if this stranger giving me a place to sleep is untrustworthy, but the conclusion "so probably they'll eat me" seems to follow across a remarkable number of times and places
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THE PUSHCART PRIZE EDITORS REMIND SMALL PRESSES THAT THE DECEMBER 1 POSTMARK FOR YOUR NOMINATIONS TO PP LI IS NEAR. PLEASE CONSULT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
THE PUSHCART PRIZE EDITORS REMIND SMALL PRESSES THAT THE DECEMBER 1 POSTMARK FOR YOUR NOMINATIONS TO PP LI IS NEAR. PLEASE CONSULT OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS.
I'm not trapped in the Torment Nexus with you, you're trapped in the Torment Nexus etc.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm not trapped in the Torment Nexus with you, you're trapped in the Torment Nexus etc.
Yeah my verse is too dangerous to share with the public too, that's why I haven't published any this year
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yeah my verse is too dangerous to share with the public too, that's why I haven't published any this year
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It's Day 14 of TTL's return to the stories we published this year and today it's A Vertical History Of Ramis' Pillar by @irregularhenry.bsky.social; caught in a timeloop the inhabitants of Ramis Pillar contend with themselves, creating strange and terrible days over and over and over and over and ov
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's Day 14 of TTL's return to the stories we published this year and today it's A Vertical History Of Ramis' Pillar by @irregularhenry.bsky.social; caught in a timeloop the inhabitants of Ramis Pillar contend with themselves, creating strange and terrible days over and over and over and over and ov
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For Sunday a review of one of the many adaptions of the story; The Two Faces Of Dr Jekyll nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/02/i-wa...
I Watch Films: The Two Faces Of Dr Jekyll
The Two Faces Of Dr Jekyll It’s Jekyll and Hyde again ! It’s Christopher Lee again (who would later go on to play a thinly disguise...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For Sunday a review of one of the many adaptions of the story; The Two Faces Of Dr Jekyll nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2023/02/i-wa...
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it is good practice to shout “FIRE IN THE HOLE!!” to alert your family members before using an electrical appliance
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
it is good practice to shout “FIRE IN THE HOLE!!” to alert your family members before using an electrical appliance
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Important to remember that like vampires, rockabilly bands can only enter your house if they are invited
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Important to remember that like vampires, rockabilly bands can only enter your house if they are invited
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I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.
Here in England they re-dubbed Nick as a cockney and Judy with a Welsh accent when they renamed it Zoocester.
Just found out that while I was off galavanting around the states all yinz Europoors were busy calling it ZooTROPOLIS!? You absolute peasants, it's Zootopia. This is St. Thomas More erasure and I will not stand for it.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here in England they re-dubbed Nick as a cockney and Judy with a Welsh accent when they renamed it Zoocester.
I think the coin-flipping mini-game is bugged
Time to make a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern first-person shooter
Checking to see if Tom Stoppard wrote any videogames so I can add to the discussion but not even one Call of Duty, not even a single existential Conker game on the résumé
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I think the coin-flipping mini-game is bugged
I read Thomas Cromwell, a history of Thomas Cromwell. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...
I Read Books: Thomas Cromwell by Tracy Borman
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story Of Henry VIII’s Most Faithful Servant Thomas Cromwell’s later career, after he became Henry VIII’s c...
nightofthehats.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I read Thomas Cromwell, a history of Thomas Cromwell. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...