The Froth

Start as close to the end as possible

8. January 2008

I don’t write fiction. But if I did, I’d follow Kurt Vonnegut’s advice. To tell you the truth, some of his rules apply to writing anything at all. Like blogs for example. Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not [...]

Oyster boys

26. October 2006

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Blondie got me “The melancholy death of oyster boy and other stories” the other day and I have been reading it non-stop. Don’t buy it for your kid though. It’s twisted, macabre, strangely funny and best of all, written by Tim Burton. This is one of my favourite stories in the book. You can see [...]

Why don’t the newscasters cry

31. July 2006

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Photo by: Photocase I would have liked to write about my weekend, my blogfriend who came to dinner and what a fantastic girl she is, about my son, about the food, about the sea. But I cannot. I saw pictures of the 34 children that were killed yesterday morning in the Israeli attack in Qana. [...]

My addictions

16. May 2006

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Birds on a wire outside my mum’s house I have new addiction: Fonts. I have downloaded about 50 new of them and some of them you are about to catch a glimpse of (like the compass on the left), because they are not real fonts but collections of nice little drawings. I have another [...]

Your heart feels so wide

12. May 2006

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This is a song I have been listening to and I really wish you could listen too (actually, you can listen to a sample here if you click Nine Horses: 02). And this is a photograph Joe took and I MADE SO BEAUTIFUL in photoshop. I will be back tomorrow morning to tell you [...]

Chemical reactions in my brain

8. May 2006

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Goodbye things. Goodbye old Chloe, little girl in a school uniform and a heartbeat like ten galloping horses. Have you ever broken in tears without having a clue as to why? I don’t have a clue. It has been a nice and productive day. We had a photo shoot for the magazine and I [...]

There’s one world in the distance

10. March 2006

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The drawing My son made this. For those of you who can’t read greek it reads: “Heart in formol”. Cute eh? The list If I had superhero powers -I would fly in minutes all over the world to meet my friends. -I would heal people in pain. -I would carry people on my back and [...]