#NaNoPoMo 09: Presence
If the word "gises" existed this would have been perfect. (I have a "rise" magnet.)I'm slowly back posting some entries. I was waylaid by meetings and press functions and work so I couldn't get to...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 10: Chasm
It's not quite what I wanted. I needed the words "see" and "slow" for the specific arrangement I was after. I don't think I have them. I certainly looked. (I've been caught before with words I thought...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 12: Emergence: A Senryū
(For the purposes of this senryū "fiery" is two syllables.)
View Article#NaNoPoMo 13: Forbidden: In Senryū
You can rearrange this one's lines in all sorts of configurations so it became difficult to choose the order.
View Article#NaNoPoMo 14: Time Crisis: A Senryū
I know this one is terrible but I wanted to write a poem that was a bit meta. It was complicated by a mess of tenses in the magnet set.(Also, "Time Crisis" or "Crisis Time"? Technically it was a little...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 17: Release
I struggled for over a day with the last line because I just didn't have the words I needed for what I wanted to do. I may have arranged as many as 10 different endings, trying to find words that would...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 18: Freedom
I used at least three new magnets in this one (soar, as, please).
View Article#NaNoPoMo 19: Perception Deception
This one has been sitting on the side of my fridge for about two weeks. I had the first two statements in place and I desperately wanted a word that would allow me to end it using a rhyme with "her" (I...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 20: Water: A Senryū
I used nine new magnets in this one, which I think is a record. I've wanted to write a poem with "pool care" in it for weeks (the two magnets were next to each other on the sheet).View the #NaNoPoMo...
View Article#NaNoPoMo 22: @vhata In Hospital: A Tragedy (In 5-7-5)
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View Article#NaNoPoMo 23: Trapped
Another one that sat on the fridge for days because I had so many problems with it.View the #NaNoPoMo Collection.
View ArticleHappy New Year
Among other things (...many other things...) I had intended to finish my #NaNoPoMo posts this week - I didn't quite manage to do it in November because I started running out of ideas due to the...
View ArticleGeek Girl Dinner Cape Town Launches
[ Flickr: View From The Ambassador Hotel, Bantry Bay, Cape Town ]Above: The view from the top of the Ambassador Hotel in Bantry Bay. It has very little to do with this post but isn't it amazing? Look...
View Article#NationalOppositeDay: A Socially Conscious Meme
Earlier this week one of my friends mentioned the #NationalOppositeDay hashtag on Twitter so I searched for it as it wasn't in the trending topics and found a most curious underground meme building...
View ArticleFree Comic Book Day 2011: Cape Town
Another first Saturday in May, another worldwide Free Comic Book Day!This year I once again attended the Reader's Den event at Stadium On Main in Claremont. The Wizards stores, which are across the...
View ArticleSocial Media, Democracy, And The DA
Yesterday, a few hours after I had voted, the DA phoned me at home to try and canvas a vote by "reminding me to vote". I don't like it when financial institutions obtain my private information and cold...
View Article#FF: Curated Favourites: May 2011, Part 1
Earlier this week during a conversation @alisonwestwood expressed enthusiasm regarding my Twitter favourites, which is (mostly) a curated collection of my favourite humorous, pithy, witty, sweet, cute,...
View Article#FF: Curated Favourites: May 2011, Part 2
(Why am I do this? Read this.)During the second half of May: South Africans held municipal elections, the Rapture didn't happen (again), it was finally confirmed that South African photographer Anton...
View Article#FF: Curated Favourites: June 2011, Part 1
In the first half of June: winter hit South Africa (and the UK couldn't get rid of it), Londoners amused themselves with #londonliesfortourists, the Rapture and the Microsoft acquisition of Skype...
View Article#FF: Curated Favourites: June 2011, Part 2
During the second half of June: ICANN announced the creation of generic top-level domain names, @NonhleThema had some sort of fake meltdown but there was nothing worth favouriting, Independent...
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