“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his…
Category: creativity
Kantele TV
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Seven Deadly Sins
Of course, this spider isn’t deadly, but it looks as if it were! Okay, there’s not really a link to my topic, I just thought this picture Stephen Fry posted on Twitter was terrific. He’s currently down in Madagascar and if you follow his tweets, you will get some cool photos. In class today I…
Too Much Writing
A friend suggested I need to take a break from writing, but I can’t think without writing, so I’m not sure how to do that. But being a little preoccupied at present with work (mostly writing), I cheat with the blog today, offering some words of wisdom from wiser heads than mine about this madness…
Albacon & Fall Colors
Ran out to get a hair cut yesterday and decided I needed a little color too, so voilĂ : Purple highlights! Thanks, Joy. She’s so good that she matched the color to the jacket I was wearing. We had a short night at Albacon — one panel for me on writing flash fiction. True to form,…
October Country returns…
I will put aside for a moment the anxiety I feel that my Halloween cards are not even conceptualised, let alone ready to send (HA HA HA). Instead I will think of all the lovely fall colors beginning to appear — more slowly up here, but much further along in Connecticut. I can’t get over…
Repetition
What is it about repetition? My need to repeat things over and over? At least three times I repeat a thing! I like to blame genetics — we did always run a joke into the ground when we were kids. There’s a series of jokes one group of friends knows so well that we just…
iTouch Things
I have a new computer. It has a camera. It has PhotoBooth which has some nifty effects. With the educator’s discount, I got a free (eventually) iPod Touch. It’s charging. We’ll see what it does when it’s ready. Of course, there’s still the transferring of files to do…
Review: Ginger Geezer
I’m not actually going to write a review of the book: it’s about a fascinating artist, Vivian Stanshall, told in a journalistic manner, which in this case means a meandering although vaguely sequential narrative, without an iota of beauty or style, but one which nonetheless proves to be an enjoyable read just because it is…