The To Do List

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• Write a 2000 word piece on PKD (by a couple of weeks ago - a draft done, needs fact checking and an edit - this turned into a complete rewrite today)
  
• See Sarah Millican (17 November)
  
• Write 4000 words on PKD and philosophy (18 November - by 1pm!)
  
• Ten minute spiel on Sauvage Planete (18 November)
  
• Muybridge and Turner Prize exhibitions (19 November - and Whiteread)
  
• See Chris Addison (20 November)
  
• Edit a 143,000 word PhD thesis (21 November)
  
• Mark 35+ 2,000 word essays (22 November - over shot to 25 November)
  
• Brendan Burns (27 November)
  
• Greg Davies (29 November)
  
• Jeremy Hardy (30 November)
  
• Write 20,000 words of a book (30 November)
  
  Meanwhile I'm thinking about what is Sekrit Porject 1 (the single-author monograph) and Sekrit Porject 2 (themed film monograph), and what is the long-backburnered Comedy Porject (aka Sekrit Porject 3), when I had thoughts about werewolves.
  
  
  The back story to this is reading Rob Latham's excellent Consuming Youth, on vampires and cyborgs, which I remember reading and thing, "Someone should do the same on werewolves." Indeed, I can only assume that just as Marx had written on vampires, someone had written on werewolves - although the only thing that sprang to mind was Freud's Wolfman. And I suspect there it lay, disregarded as an idea.
  
  Now, thanks to the unintended consequences of an invitation to gatecrash from Brisingamen, I have an in to the book.
  
  The book?
  
  There is no way I am ready for Sekrit Porject 4.
  
  On the other hand, it may well be a chapter of Sekrit Porject 2, if I can find a way to convinced myself it's sf.
  
  No genelycology or anthropolycology without lyconomy.