Wendy Waters is the best unpublished writer I know. Continue reading
Archive for May, 2012
Wendy Waters
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Anthony O’Neill, Bronte Sisters, Catch the Moon, Fields of Grace, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabelle Allende, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Keats, Mary, Mills and Boon, Scheherazade, Summer of the 17th Doll, Virginia Woolf, Wendy Waters on May 24, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Catch the Moon, Mary
Posted in Reading with tags Wendy Waters on May 24, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleThis is the first chapter from ‘Catch the Moon, Mary’, by Wendy Waters, as promised.
At its best, his soul was in flashing, quivering, constant motion: the gold, yellow, white and silver light of it darting about like fish in a sunlit bowl. But this interminable quest had dimmed and contracted him.
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Freedom, Sunshine and a Little Flower
Posted in Observation with tags Hans Christian Andersen, Joshua Bell, Washington Post on May 22, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
I recently read a story from the Washington Post via Facebook, about an experiment conducted in a U.S. railway tunnel.
One of the world’s most gifted musicians, Joshua Bell, stood and played a succession of classical masterpieces on a $3.5 million dollar violin and was ignored by everyone, except a small child. Continue reading
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Comparative Religions in 'Game of Thrones'.
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Game of Thrones on May 19, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Do you pray to the Gods?”
“The old and the new.”
There is only one God, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death; not today.”
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The Gaslight Anthem – 45
Posted in Music with tags 45, Gaslight Anthem, Handwritten on May 15, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Emily Friedel
Posted in Fitness, Real Men with tags Australian Kettlebell Club, Biathlon, Catherine Imes, Emily Friedel, Girevoy sport, Iron Edge, Long Cycle, Master of Sport, Melbourne City Baths, Mike Mahler, Olympic lifting, Pavel Tsatsouline, Steve Cotter, Steven Khoung, The Ice Chamber, Valery Fedorenko on May 14, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Emily Friedel is Australia’s only Master of Sport in Girevoy, the sport of Kettlebell lifting. She placed first in her event at the WKC World Championships in 2010 and 2011 and also holds the official Australian women’s record for 24kg snatches. Continue reading
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Leo Tolstoy Vs. Robert S. McNamara
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men with tags Agent Orange, Axis, Battle of Borodino, Errol Morris, General Kutuzov, Hitler, Holocaust, Loe Tolstoy, Napoleon, Robert S McNamara, Vietnam war, War and Peace, War criminal, World War II on May 2, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
One of the most interesting aspects of reading is that sometimes you might read something and, regardless of whether you enjoy it or not, it begins to creep into your thinking. You start to see it everywhere; kind of like when you’re walking the streets in a strange country and you feel as if you keep catching glimpses of people you know. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 