You know how it is, when it's Friday and you're feeling a bit lightheaded. My son and I were just doing a bit of free association and we wondered what would happen if there was an ereading device for fish. Would it be called a Findle? Sorry, just codding around. Talking of cod, would the late great mind of the much-missed Christopher Hitchens have been a great writer in the fish world? Fishtopher Hitchens, perhaps, writing a book like Cod is Not Great. Or the Trial of Henry Fishinger. Perhaps fish even have cartoons, like the Shrimpsons. Oh boy am I ready for that Friday night drink!
Friday, 9 March 2012
Christopher Hitchens on GKC
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The Hitch
The story behind Christopher Hitchens’s March 2012 essay
By Benjamin Schwarz
via theatlantic.com
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Moldavite Kindle edition
My novel Moldavite has just been published as an ebook! Hope you enjoy and do please review if you would like:
For the UK click
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moldavite-ebook/dp/B007FS0YM4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1330945448&sr=1-1 For the US and elsewhere please click Amazon.comhttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Moldavite+Meira+Eliot&x=15&y=13 Moldavite will soon also appear on other retailers and aggregators such as Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, Follett, Gardners, Firstyfish and many more.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moldavite-ebook/dp/B007FS0YM4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1330945448&sr=1-1 For the US and elsewhere please click Amazon.comhttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Moldavite+Meira+Eliot&x=15&y=13 Moldavite will soon also appear on other retailers and aggregators such as Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, Follett, Gardners, Firstyfish and many more.
Monday, 2 August 2010
The way we do things is what we are doing
We tend to think of the message and the packaging as two different things. We even argue about whether the form or the content is more important (we do this a lot in teaching). And yet a few hours spent in any family or workplace are enough to show us the truth: the way the message is delivered is often the most important part of the message. Was there ever a great parent or teacher who talked to children as if they were idiots or wastes of space? How many rebellious teenagers have you known who rejected their parents' politics or religion, only to adopt a substitute ideology that perpetuated the same patterns they were trying so hard to escape from? More and more I am convinced that the way we do things is actually what we are doing.
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