I was sad to learn of the death last week of my online acquaintance and occasional correspondent Frank Key, the absurdist genius behind the clotted nonsense that was hootingyard.org. Among the phenomenal amount of nonsense Frank put out there, he was aware that my personal favourite was a piece about a rose garden, which he… Continue reading Frank Key
Writing tagged: ‘hooting yard’
Potted nonsense
Long-term readers of Gruts might be interested to learn about Mr Frank Key's new book, “Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives’.
Archduke Stephen, Palatine Of Hungary redux
On Frank Key's inspirational essay 'On The Moustache Of Archduke Stephen, Palatine Of Hungary'.
Cleverly, he dialled from within
A rare recording of a village peasant sprawled next to the drainage ditch reciting Captain Beefheart’s 'The Old Fart At Play'.
Brain-fodder
In which I have a letter published in the London Review of Books