THE WEBSITE: Tychy is a lusty champion of English Literature, publishing experimental middlebrow short fiction; book reviews and political essays; dialogues and Edinburgh Fringe theatre reviews; illustrations and cartoons; and literary criticism devoted to the American Renaissance, nineteenth-century magazine fiction, the traditional English ghost story, and popular children’s books. The website is based in Edinburgh, and it offers an occasional commentary on this city’s civic and cultural affairs.
THE AUTHOR: Zbigniew Tycienski (b.1974) grew up in south-east Poland. He graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice with a degree in engineering, but after 1995 he left Poland and worked in Greece and Italy. In 2004 he migrated to the United Kingdom. After brief spells in York and London, he settled in Edinburgh.
THE EDITOR: James Mooney (b.1982) graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2005 with a M.A. in History and English Literature. He graduated again from the same university in 2008 with a Masters in Science, whatever that is. His specialist subject is the magazine literature of Doctor William Maginn (1794-1842).
A WARNING: Keep your filthy hands off all of the copywritten material on this website. There is a special circle of hell for students whom plagiarise, in which laughing demons force offenders to re-read novels by Alexander McCall Smith for billions and billions of years.
Congratulations on finding this website and thanks for visiting.
I really like your header picture…I’ve been trying, to no avail, to find something good for mine…but since I haven’t…I guess I’ll keep the boring blue…
P.S….thanks for the Blogroll add, you’ve been added to mine, as well…and thanks for the super sweet comment!
Dear Tychy
I fully agree with your denunciation of these sweaty eccentrics. As a tax paying mother of five, it infuriates me that my money is used to further their silly past times – like the twerp who does a glorified hop. skip and jump. Apparently us tax payers ploughed £400m into this rubbish – £20m for each gold medal – and are they gold – what is their scrap value? It’s a disgrace.
I think that this refers to London 2012: Stop the Madness. Ed.
Like your headers. No idea why you linked to me, but what the hell! I’ll link back.
Please remove my e-mail address from my comment on the Retreat. Thank you!
Your e-mail address should be gone – it’s no longer visible to me – cheers for the comment, btw, and please tell me if you can still see your address. your computer may have saved it in connection to the page, but it’s not publicly accessible. tychy.
Hi there, great blog, good to meet a fellow Edinburgh blogger. I’m not a student and I won’t be plagiarising, although I do, now, consider myself ‘told’ in advance! WBW, CBC
Hi there, I know it says ‘don’t plagiarise’ but I was hoping I could use you as a source? I’m particularly interested in the 2009 Hawthorn article, and was hoping you could give me the correct information so I could accurately quote & reference you?
That is only if you give me permission to quote you of course,
Thanks alot!
Well, to “plagiarise” means to steal somebody’s writing and pretend that it’s your own, but it doesn’t sound as if you’d do anything that wicked. I’d be honoured if you’d quote anything from this website. You should reference the pseudonym (Tychy) and you should also provide the article title, the date it was posted, and maybe the web address too.
Good luck with your work. Thanks for visiting.
Tychy.
Hmm. “No plagiarising” but you’ve used a photo of mine for which I don’t recall you asking my permission. It may be that my memory is at fault and if so, apologies. If not, I’ll give you retrospective permission but please do ask permission of any photographer whose work you wish to use.
Err… woebegonewife? That’s an avatar – you created it and then left it on my website. Or at least one of us must have and it wasn’t me. As for the permission of photographers, I don’t think that this website has ever featured a single photograph.
Barking, keep up with the tablets!
Woof Woof, you mad bashturd lolz