Author: deborahb
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‘We laughed!’ we cried.
Hello, hello, I have discovered my Peek’s Five Questions up over at benpeek‘s blog, along with a bunch of other interviews with a bunch of other people. I’m liking the way this is teasing out the individual thoughts of a complex system often simplistically referred to as ‘the scene’. Definitely worth checking out all week…
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Peek Question Time
benpeek is asking Five Questions, & here are the answers to mine. Over on his journal, all week, is interview week. I am not over there, I am here, because I don’t have anything to pimp at the moment. I am just home, writing & watching TV. You should check his blog out all week,…
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Brilliant Brilliant
Friends, the search is over. I have finally been summarised in someone else’s prose: I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. — Ashleigh Brilliant Ashleigh Brilliant: “history’s only full time, professional, published epigrammatist” *; creator of Brilliant Thoughts; writer of such books as I HAVE ABANDONED MY SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND…
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Nietzsche weighs in
Nietzsche sez: “Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!” ‘Course, that crazy, dead bastard also comments: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also…
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Question Time
Question: What are you if you fail to be a hack writer? Also: As an artist, are you required to live at the extreme edge of your art? That is, if you love heavy metal, & like to play heavy metal every Tuesday night at your local bar, are you still a heavy metal rocker…
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Update Over the Road
It was raining today, so the spiderman-loving bum who lives in front of the church across the road was not in sight, but the fact I found myself looking for him reminded me of the last time I ran into him. He’d scored himself a mobile phone, one of them new-fangled ones with the cameras…
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Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me
Because I needed things from the hardware store, I went to the hardware store. And then the bookshop. Why? I had no need of things from the bookshop. What I needed was a litre of exterior paint in the shade of Moonglow, & a couple of those sponges that are also sanding paper. (They’re washable,…
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Writing and Irritants
This one rambles. At the Swancon panel on ‘staying creative’, Charles de Lint admitted he’d wanted to be a musician. The times weren’t right for the music he liked to play, however, so he went into writing. (You’ve heard of writing, right? Crazy little fallback gig that it is … ;). Both Terry Dowling and…