New for 2025! Surrealist Games!
Earlier this year I picked up this box of Surrealist Games for just £5 at the St James St branch of Dogs Trust in Brighton. In the box was an obscene board game , a packet of rub-on tattoos, a ‘surrealist dictionary’ featuring an A-Z of erotic sign language, and a 165 page compendium of ‘methodologies… for unlocking the door of the unconscious and releasing the poetry of collective creativity’.
How could I resist?
The package was printed and published by the Redstone Press in 1991. I don’t think they’re going anymore, but apparently they were a boutique London publisher specialising in the offbeat and the avant-garde. In 2025 it’s five quid well spent, and you can follow the results of my efforts, or learn how to do them surrealisms yourself, by clicking here.
What else you got?
Between 2010 and 2021, by virtue of my day job as a Sub Editor for the Press Association, I moonlighted as a features writer, music, film and book reviewer for loads of magazines, newspapers and online periodicals, many of which you’ve probably even heard of, like The Guardian, The Yorkshire Post and The Herald.
Don’t believe me? Well the evidence is just a single click away:
That’s boring, do you do anything else?
“I can’t go on. I go on: Do they have brown hair?” –
A short Game of Guess Who with Samuel Beckett
“If online dating proves anything it’s that yes, your ideal partner is out there, yes, they live in your area and no, they’re not interested.” –
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People often say to me, “James, what the Hell are you talking about?” –
Well they need wonder no longer, only consult part one of the
HULL to ENGLISH Dictionary A – C
James JW Robinson 