User:Thoughtcat

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I am a British amateur writer, blogger and guitarist; I was born in 1971 and live in London. I run thoughtcat.com, which hosts, among other items, SA4QE, an online record of an annual fan event in which quotes from Russell Hoban's books are left in public places. I was one of the organisers of the 2005 Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum, the first international fan convention for the novelist. Pages I've made edits to include Hoban, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Cream, Lowell George, Brian Patten, Dan Rhodes, Leonard Cohen and Charles Webb.

I have published poetry in various small magazines and short stories online and in early 2004 completed a novel which was shortlisted for a competition called Search for the Great Reads. My CV is too ridiculous to list in full here but highlights of it include walking around 33 London locations from the books of Russell Hoban in one day and then being interviewed about it by the Independent, and visiting Thailand, where I got married.

I live with my family in a flat not quite large enough to swing a thoughtcat in, and subsist largely on tea, toast, digestive biscuits, coffee, red wine, Thai curries and ham and tomato sandwiches, to which, if I'm feeling adventurous, I add a slice of cheese.

Coldplay annoy me, as does Tony Blair. Curiously, both seemed OK when they first came out.

Favourite TV programme: a toss-up between University Challenge and The Simpsons.