Years ago, when I first started getting serious about writing, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who dabbled in photography. He was rather firmly of the opinion that artist should not charge for art, that no one actually has a right to make a living as an artist, despite being someone who […]
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Which could also be titled, “The Education of a Large Segment of the Population Deemed to be ‘Bad’”. Anyway, you should really go and read this short story by Ellen Klages, who had been added to my ‘authors to investigate’ list because this story is just… intelligentheartbreakingrealhonesttrue. Here’s the comment I posted to Ada Hoffmann’s
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In response to Michelle’s fabulous post here. Actually, I reject the notion that endings can be divided into ‘happy’ and ‘more realistic’. This is a topic of frequent debate at work (i.e. in the English faculty), because there are certainly those in the faculty who despite any kind of popular or populist fiction as ‘trashy’,
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Just, this. People bemoan technology (esp portable social media and the phenomenon of texting the person in the next (same?!) room) as the scariest thing about modern society. I politely disagree. This is scarier: http://maxistentialist.tumblr.com/post/4174573186/prints-available# Read more:#HappyDays The Best Compliments EverWriting Fast and Slow#HappyDays Neil Gaiman on Writing, Life, and Everything Else
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**Random sidetrack while I am writing today’s real post** (for which I am WELL KNOWN in the classroom, especially ask my year 8 extension class this year :D) Harry Potter 4 is on in the background and the ads just came on. KFC have a new product out, I can’t find the name of it,
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Look, in the interest of a) actually getting this post, which has been sitting in drafts for a week, posted and b) preserving the spirit of this blog, which is very much a place for me to just hang out, and not feel pressure to be official and all, I’m just going to fudge this
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So, here’s some terrifying information for you. Randomly, I was doing a click-read-click spree again tonight and stumbled across a Nov-2001 article where Johnson&Johnson were promising to remove a known carcinogen from their baby products. UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD IDEA, JOHNSON&JOHNSON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. It prompted me to go
