Are you ready for your close-up? What’s stopping you from saying what you want to say? I believe that we live in the greatest time in history for communications, for self expression, for saying what we want and need to say. The evolution, shrinkage and increased affordability of technology means that the tools for communication […]
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Of Twitter, tweet-ups and introversion
Twitter, it is my contention, is a perfect communications medium for the card-carrying introvert. But what happens when the Twitter world and the real world cross over? Gentle reader, have you ever had the words taken right out of your mouth? I am a card-carrying introvert. Speaking to other people, the words sometimes don’t come […]
#Billablehour: Please consider donating to @savechildrenuk
Gentle reader: I would like to ask you please to consider a donation to Save the Children. You have seen the heart-rending images and heard the awful stories of refugees from Syria and elsewhere. I have been deeply impressed by the groundswell of effort, action and giving inspired by what we have all seen over […]
Worry is waste
Have you seen Bicycle Thieves*? If not: You know those critics’ polls of the greatest films of all time, that are pretty much always topped by Citizen Kane? Well, Bicycle Thieves pretty much always places second or third in such lists. And, it delights me to report, with jolly good reason. I finally got to […]
What makes Friday night, August 14th so Funkadelic?
Friday night, August 14th: The funkiest day in the calendar? George Clinton and Funkadelic would certainly argue that it is…
The Tao of Keith Richards: Why would you keep a dollar past sunset?
How can you not love Keith Richards? Keith Richards has done enough. He need never do any more. His eminence (his, if you will, satanic majesty) is assured in all departments. Music. “Refreshments.” Life. Strip away all the music and the myth, the assumed-over-the-years sozzled aristo speaking voice, the bourbon-gargling, perma-scarfed persona.* You are left […]
Is this the real life?
Real life? Just fantasy? Is it high time you took just one day out of life to escape from reality? What, truly, is life’s purpose? Is society nought but a cock-up? It is a truth all but universally acknowledged in blogging circles that around this time of year – as people head off on their […]
Illumine the whole of time
Depending on how you look at it, nothing is inevitable, or everything is. Inevitably, we have a certain amount of time. But how we spend that time, how we illuminate our lives and those of others, is not inevitable. You have a choice. There is only one thing that is guaranteed to happen in the […]
Writing fast, writing slow and the art of living imperfectly
Do you remember a time before the tweet, before the text, even before fingers gave way to thumbs, when writing was all about the flow or the scratch of pen on paper? In this day and age, you can write fast. Or you can write slow. Neither way to write is better than the other. […]
Breaking out into the clear
Gentle reader: When was the last time you lost yourself completely in what you were doing? Before we proceed on this line of enquiry, I must caution you that this post contains cussing words. The language, if you will, of the streets. The purest moment of creativity is the one from which you’re most absent. […]
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