Dancing The Entropy Tango

I am still getting high figures on the blog this month with just over 26K visits this month, there were 7K last month, but 3.5K yesterday. The only thing that I have done is add a nofollow attribute to all my non-Vocal links. The figures are below.

I finished "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson which is both entertaining, funny and very worrying.

I was thinking of going for another Jon Ronson book but decided to go for "The Entropy Tango" by Michael Moorcock as he is a favourite author and this book has provided some input into my Plagiaristic Poetry series. I was surprised to see that he made an album with his band Deep Fix which you can see here

If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.

The music is "Entropy Tango" by Michael Moorcock and Deep Fix

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
2. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
3. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
4. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
6. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
7. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
8. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer

Seven Days In Some Numbers

I am still getting high figures on the blog this month with just over 20K visits this month, there were 7K last month. The only thing that I have done is add a nofollow attribute to all my non-Vocal links. The figures are below.

I may finish "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson this week, but it is getting more disturbing with each page I turn, but there are only another forty to go and then I need to find something else.

If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.

The music is "Don't Tell Me" by Blancmange as it is on my player at the moment and it is a superb record.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
5. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
6. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
7. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer

The Goat Still Stands

I may finish "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson. this week, it has been entertaining but disturbing. I am not sure what is coming next, but it may be something similar.

Grammarly is being awkward, but I thought I would just drop on to say a little bit about where I am up to and share some music with you, which is vaguely appropriate.

If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.

The music is "Dirty Water" by The Standells and a great easy-to-play riff and archetypal sixties garage punk.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
5. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
6. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
7. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer

Still Staring At Goats

I  expect to finish "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson. The thing about this is on the one hand it is funny because it is so ludicrous, but it is scary because these things really happened. It is just going on about torture techniques at Guantanamo Bay but has included methods such as playing Barney The Purple Dinosaur to Iraqi prisoners none stop in order to break them down. There are funny bits laced in with horrific bits.

Another thing that has happened this month, well it started on the last day of May is that visit figures have gone through the roof for the blog. The only thing I have done is add is added the nofollow attribute to my Amazon links. The figures are below and there are already 900 today and it's 7am. I have already passed May's total, also since I did that my Vocal reads have been high, I don't know if the two are related.

Changed my bookmark from the one I got made for me for reviewing a book on Norse mythology to a freebie I picked up on my last visit to Barter Books (link below).

It is really useful because it is like an old wooden ruler with lots of measurement conversions written on it. Check it out here.

If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.

I've included "She Knows" by Melanie Garside as I rediscovered her excellent "Fossil" album this week that you can read about here.

I recently found out that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
5. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
6. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
7. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Finished Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker, and it was very funny finishing off not wanting to go Glastonbury Glamping.

My next book is "The Men Who Stare At Goats" by Jon Ronson. The thing about this is on the one hand it is funny because it is so ludicrous, but it is scary because these things really happened.

This is my third post this month which I certainly didn't expect to happen, but have a feeling I will post more this year than last year.

Changed my bookmark from the one I got made for me for reviewing a book on Norse mythology to a freebie I picked up on my last visit to Barter Books (link below).

It is really useful because it is like an old wooden ruler with lots of measurement conversions written on it. Check it out here.

If you want to buy a book my dark poetry is on the link below.

I've included "Make That Handjive Mine" by The Bronte Brothers which is just one of the most life-affirming songs I have ever heard.

I recently found out that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not others. C'est La Vie.

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
5. Three Reasons Why I Love Settle - Scaleber Force, The Hoffman Kiln and Castlebergh Crag
6. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
7. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer

Just A Psycho

I'm just reading The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and there's quite a lot of disturbing stuff in there, and some worrying things about the nature of psychopaths and sociopaths . Apparently f you start noticing traits in yourself that may you suspect you may be a psychopath then you probably aren't one , but if you don't thing you could be a psychopath then the chances are that you are one. It also reckons the reason for the inequality and unfairness in society is that psychopaths are actually in a lot of high up places of power , and they get there because of their nature.

Are You?

This is something we should be very worried about. We tend to give certain people a lot of leewaybecause it's "just the way they are" but I have seen some disgusting bullying behaviour in the workplace of the years that has been condoned and allowed by company management for the flimsiest of reasons, management often turning on people less likely to cause a fuss to carry the the can for the bully's behaviour.

We see it in politics today and as long as we allow it , it will continue to happen.





I suggest you grab a copy of the book ,  and then try and find something positive to focus on , because it's the weekend and you should really be enjoying yourself, I certainly will be.

There's only one song that will do for this post and it's Elvis Costello's take on the country and western classic "Psycho" written by Leon Payne after he saw Hitchcock's film "Psycho".