Spring Things
The splendiferous Brigid Lowry is in The Residence over at insideadog, and is encouraging a creative spring clean. And lists! I love lists.
Things That Would Make Me Happy
- a night at home eating chili and watching the West Wing
- a title for my crusades book
- an Obama presidency
- about 700 years to catch up on reading
- for Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels to never end
- making all my Christmas presents this year
Things I am Prepared to do Without
- Australian Idol
- for that matter, television-on-television (DVDs is different)
- alcohol on weeknights
- books about dead girls in country towns
- the twelve political blogs I’m currently reading (i could prolly cut it down to eight)
Relax, Trust, Surrender.
Come and see me!
I’ll be at the Coburg Library on Thursday evening, talking about Me and My Books and My Job. I might even read from one of my New Books…
7pm, Thursday 10 April
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria and Louisa Streets
Coburg.
To book, call 9353 4000
ZOMBIE IDOL
Over at insideadog, Maureen Johnson is putting to the test the theory that all books are made better with a zombie.
And you’re invited! Transform a work of existing literature by adding a zombie. You might even win a prize…
Here’s examples from Maureen, Justine and Scott. And here’s mine, with apologies to Walt Whitman:
O ZOMBIE! my Zombie! our fearful trip is done;
Our bodies weather’d every whack, the brains we sought are nom nom nom;
Our lunch is near, the bells I hear, the people all screaming,
While follow eyes the zombie reel, our onslaught grim and daring:
But O brains! brains! brains!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my dinner lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
