Traveller’s Tales
What are traveller’s tales but our maps to our selves?
Month: January 2010
The Writer On The Artist Spectrum
I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever expressed an idea in tangible form or otherwise has needed an audience. To those who disagree – if they didn’t, then they’d just keep the idea in their own heads….
First Blood
Last night I was trying to sleep but a stupid mosquito kept buzzing in my ear. This despite the fact that the mosquito repellent is plugged in just above my head. WTF happened to MMR (Mosquito Mortality Rate…I kid you not)??!! So I switched on the light to swat it….
Ideart: Rose Garden
I painted a rose garden.
Twitter Gandhigiri
Come join the charity drive in honour of @tbitch
who suffers deeply from a lack of a sense of humour and originality.
Share a funny joke (not a mean one)
or an original idea with her at @tbitch.
That Kind Of Guy & The Women Who Get Over Him
My friend and I accidentally stumbled onto a kind of male predator when we fell into crosstalk and realised we were talking about the same person.
Rockstar
This was based on a writing exercise on a secret: “Always dreamed of being a lead guitarist and performing with Sting”. So I tapped my inner Rockstar.
Guilt-Reading
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.
You Aren’t Being My Friend
To my friends in so many places, I’m upset. Badly so. I’m not okay with your calling me only when you have problems in your love life. I’m struck even worse by the fact that you have no time to hear about my love life problems or worse, that you…
Outside Fairytales
Some day perhaps I will be in love. And it will be better than the fairytales.