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Meerkat (thinking aloud)

Readers (I'm optimistic), You may have heard of a new app called Meerkat. It's growing in popularity around the globe. Never one to let a bandwagon pass me by, I've been toying around on Meerkat and have posted the result to YouTube (see link below). Unfortunately, as I make clear in the video, my attempt did not exactly garner many viewers. Nonetheless, I'll persist. As I say I'm optimistic, and I actually found the whole process of speaking off-the-cuff (extemporizing if you will) to be rather fun. Humble to the tips of my toes, Brian Here's the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImHmT35LZx4 PS Next time I promise to shoot in wide angle.

Babbling Brook (3)

                                           You gotta love writing, why else would you do it? Not for the money. With The World’s a Stage she felt like Michael Cunningham fictionalizing the life of Virginia Wolfe. It took her hours to write. You can basically watch live death on the internet these days. At the weekend she had a visit from a sofa maker called Shay Long. She marked the page she was reading “Bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust” and put the kettle on. Shay produced his brochures. Her father had been a classic Irish drinker: manic when drunk and a pain-in-the-hole depressive when sober. She wondered if there was an asylum somewhere for people who considered ____ __ _________ to be a good song? She chomped on an apple having peeled it with her old, horn-handled knife. During an afternoon nap the poetry of Arya W...