Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Patty Cake Patty Cake
These two girls both work for two different bakeries on Junction Road.
They are both abut the same age (18 - 20 or so).
They are from different cultural backgrounds.
They have quite different styles of customer service.
Guess which one I prefer to buy bread from.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Better Looking
It has occured to me that I have been in the United Kingdom for only 3 months as of today.
It feels like about 10 years...
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank some folks in particular.
Special thanks to Oscar and Patricia who have welcomed me like some kind of distant but familar cousin.
A thank you to to Uli Meyer, whose treats me like someone he has known his entire life.
I thank Neil Ross for refusing to lower the tone of the evening despite my contributions. An inspiration and a fine fellow.
And Boris Hiestand, who has been a delight, a pleasure, and on every single occasion, a friend.
More than anyone though, I thank little cousin Rachel, who has fed me and housed me since the day I arrived.
Someone cleverer than me will write an anthem in your honor and will include the name, Iain, on occasion, who may not be as pretty as you, but is better at X-Box.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Friday, October 06, 2006
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Thank You
A big thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the latest series.
I'm packaging them up in the format you see above for distribution.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Choose One
Those who know me will know that I've been sending some books I wrote and illustrated to the various publishers and literary agents who accept such things.
It's a time consuming process packaging up all these blasted things, researching who to write to, rewriting the cover letter to suit.
A bit like applying for a job.
I have had many, many rejection letters, almost all of them a form letter.
I have had a good handfull of personalised responses which, according to the Writers and Artists
Handbook, is a very positive thing indeed - even if they have chosen to pass on the project.
This below however, is one of my favourite rejections.
I admire it for it's honesty, it's straight forward, no nonsense ideology.
It is written on a brief, badly photocopied slip of paper, and reads:
"Many thanks for the offer but regret the work does not show a profitable readership. Do try somewhere else in case we missed something".
God bless them.
Perhaps the one thing they missed doing was reading them.
It's not even "We didn't like your books" or "Thanks for sending them, but they're crap".
I assume they have some kind of scanning device they ran it through that measures the amount of lines in each drawing versus the wordcount, then cross references this will the best selling books since 1955.
If it scores over a certain number then it's going to be profitable.
I don't mean to sound naive here - I was entertained by the rejection rather than upset by it.
But really.
