Book of the week: The Artist’s Way (plus how I ended up working through it)
Where to begin with this one… well, about a year ago I was feeling the need to get back to making some sort of art, having spent the majority of my creative energy in the previous couple years either involved with buying and renovating and decorating my house (plus...
Winter’s last (I hope!) snow tantrum and I’m never wrong but I might have been not entirely correct this one time
Ah, it seems like I just wrote the last Saturday blog… The snow fell, about 5-6” of it at my house, and while it did cover everything, it seems the irises are now emerging from it not that much worse off than before it hit. I expect this is...
Snow… ugh… also some notes from watching old Tony Awards, Irish taxes, etc.
Dia duit. Just finished the Irish 101 course from Dublin City University and about to start Irish 102 next week. Both are free through futurelearn.com, which is good for those of us who might well have a little Scottish in us mixed with the Irish and hence don’t want...
Ancestral languages, my efforts to learn Irish, and book of the week: Motherfoclóir
Dia duit! (Irish for hello). Where to begin today… well, I think I mentioned before about trying to learn Irish on Duolingo… which is infuriating (though made better when one learns that the website version of Duolingo has grammar notes even though the app version leaves you high and...
Pop up books, pop up bulbs, and a whole lot of republishing posts and podcasts
Where to start this week… a lot of my “work” time was spent right here or on related sites. I spent all evening Thursday uploading more than 100 Zamo the Destroyer episodes to my Soundcloud after doing the unlimited storage space upgrade. I had had the first 97 episodes...
A rant about rhinestones or the lack thereof, also book of the week: The Follies Bergere in Las Vegas
When I was a kid, showgirls still seemed to be everywhere on TV… probably it was old syndicated variety shows from the 60s and 70s I was watching (just as I watched Bewitched religiously long after it was no longer running), but then there were also aspects of showgirl...
Greetings from transcript (and lazy winter flower) Hell
So, the good news is the university has gotten my transcript from the audio recording school I attended. Of course, said school doesn’t really do official transcripts so they sent a PDF of my grades records, which the university has received but put as a separate item on my...
Musicals?
Another week and what’s new? Well, work is continuing on the poetry book and the sitcom/web series with dolls thing, and I’m getting transcripts in for my university application. But the real news is I’ve had some ideas for musicals. Wait… what? Yes, musicals. The first nebulous idea was...
The university robots think my name is Phoenix… and other news
Another week drags on… seems like on Wednesday I had some clever idea for a blog post but I was lazy and didn’t write it so now I’ve forgotten and here we are. Well, one can argue blog posts are never as clever as the blogger might think. So...
Careful what you write about
PSA: Never write about someone you hate, because you might accidentally find yourself liking them. Especially if you do your research, which you really should. The first episode of that weird sitcom/web series thing I’m working on (referenced in the last blog) has the main character, Nick (an aging...