Bending down to pick up my bag, an Indian fella in front of me farted directly into my eye balls. Continue reading
15 Lessons Screenwriters and Filmmakers can take from ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’.
Addressing forgiveness, Martin McDonagh’s writing and execution goes beyond Seven Psychopaths and In Bruges to reach new heights in this blockbusting dark comedy.
I Don’t Want To Kick A Dog In The Face
Eggs away! I’m letting go of dairy, eggs and fish for September. Enjoying a mostly plant based diet anyway, I’ve been irrationally granting an exception for these three animal food groups. Why? I’m not sure. It’s possible that it’s the last bastion of my psychological meaty-conditioning. Regardless, with time, I feel more and more distressed eating them. And hell, I could just eat something else. Continue reading
Goat Heidrun Udder Mead
A trip up a hill in Pai.
There’s a hill. Just beyond the monstrous and sopping, elephants cock. Take a scooter. Go up it. Continue reading
Words For Good
Writing Retreat Bali raises money for Indo book charity
At Writing Retreat Bali, guests were challenged with writing a short passage that could be used in an anthology. It was a fun exercise with a truly amazing group from all around the world. Proceeds from book sales go to Ransel Buku, a project that supplies communities in Kilimantan with children’s books.
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BOBBING WITH THE J-FLOW
Scooterin’ to Pemuteran (Yep, I just did that, so?)
Collette and I squizzed in on our rusted but trusted Honda 125 to a cheap and cheeky B&B in Pemuteran. It was red hot, dry and unforgiving like my wit on the third day of a session. There was a playful, older, Aussie couple downing Bintang on sun-loungers, they looked like they’d seen a few parties and even more relationship counsellors.
And there was Jesper, bobbing.
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The Best Writers’ Retreats in Bali for 2019
Bali’s Writing Retreats of 2019
Publish Me Now
Write Your Chapter and Become a Best-Selling Author
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A seriously playful writing retreat
Writing Retreat Bali
15 – 22 October 2019
Bali Swasti Conscious Village, Ubud
www.writingretreatbali.com
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All The Dead Cowards
A poem
Forget courage.
Forget the knotted stomach that sickens.
Forget the struggle for steadying breath,
for the flickering glimpse of consciousness coming.
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Chivalry’s truly dead here
Anxious and grimacing sex desperadoes. Massively overweight, sweaty and grease-laden, mulleteer perverts, all laced to eyeballs with Singha and STD’s. Thai hookers get a really awful deal. Continue reading
Watching Sukhumvit
A few shots today after yoga in Bangkok
Spellbound
Muchachos will be muchachos
Time means little under the shade of this bougainvillea porch at the side of a lonely road in Sant Joan. Eclectic rogues gesticulate, smoke, share stories and gather advice. It makes me want to learn Spanish just to earwig a little. All of the real island scoops are in these laughs and animated pats. Let’s go inside. Continue reading
Madchester
‘Eeeyaah mate, your ‘air is cool as fuck, yeah?’
Compliments don’t come any more Mancunian than that. Thanks pal. The swaggering fashionista is obviously high and hasn’t had the memo that Definitely Maybe was 1994. Continue reading
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