Author name: Alasdair

AL DENTE: Bagel Loaf

Who’s hungry? Oh it has been a WHILE since we did one of these! So, it gives me tremendous pleasure to welcome you back to Al Dente, our (very) occasional cooking spot. This yeasty lad is a bagel loaf, based on Joshua Weissman‘s recipe in An Unapologetic Cookbook. I’ve made this a few times but …

AL DENTE: Bagel Loaf

100 DOORS-The Rules

Every decade the British Film Institute publish a curated list of the Greatest Movies of All Time. It is, of course, wrong because everyone has a different list and everyone’s list is right but it’s a lovely exercise. There’s a quote from Guillermo del Toro about these lists and what they do, which speaks viscerally …

100 DOORS-The Rules

Setting Up the Books

I got to do something really fun earlier today; a double notebook swap! At the start of the week too! It’s always a nice feeling, setting up the books for the next six weeks or so and I thought I’d walk you through it. On the left! My Travellers Notebook. Marguerite and I got our …

Setting Up the Books

It Can Be Here

This essay was originally published in the 16th December 2023 issue of The Full Lid Months ago, I wrote two lines that would start and end an essay. The first was this: Help isn’t coming. The original piece was born of the frustration Jenga required of working in a creative field in 2022. Pushing against …

It Can Be Here

AFTER THE WAR-PRIMER

I’ve been having great fun with Facility23 as a daily writing challenge and as we start to head to the end of the first month, now’s a good time to give you an idea of the setting. I’m writing it for After the War, the game my buddy Jason Pitre and co-created because it’s a …

AFTER THE WAR-PRIMER

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