No Muse is Good Muse
As you may have noticed, the blog muse has deserted me. So much so that I have nothing to say about this. I do feel strangely better for it.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 10:18 AM
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- Name:Bryan Appleyard
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
37 Comments:
At July 29, 2009 10:24 AM,
Brit said…
Funny, I was just thinking that you'd be an excellent guest on the new Radio 4 discussion show You Say Potato, I Say Starchy, Tuberous Crop from the Perennial Solanum Tuberosum of the Solanaceae Family.
You could start by complicating the question: "Are there any aliens?"
At July 29, 2009 10:52 AM,
Gaw said…
Palate jaded, eh? There's a lot of it about.
Novels, for instance, having mined out the subjective interest of human beings, should be handed over to other species and their ghost-writers to have a crack. First up: chimp lit.
Could also be taken in other directions, corvine, delphine, etc.
At July 29, 2009 10:59 AM,
Big Chip Dale said…
Don't worry. The same thing happened to me and it only lasted a year.
At July 29, 2009 11:01 AM,
elberry said…
Take a month off, does wonders for one's sense of self, plus you get lots of crazy ideas in the interval.
At July 29, 2009 11:02 AM,
elberry said…
By the way, George Steiner is publishing his New Yorker essays - no excuse for you not to do so with your various articles.
At July 29, 2009 11:02 AM,
Brit said…
Anyone else want to plug their blog here?
At July 29, 2009 11:02 AM,
elberry said…
And i'm not Chip, even though we seem to be posting at the same time.
At July 29, 2009 11:03 AM,
elberry said…
Nor am i Brit, we're just all on at the same time.
At July 29, 2009 11:04 AM,
Ludwig Wittgenstein said…
You're not me either.
At July 29, 2009 11:04 AM,
elberry said…
Who?
At July 29, 2009 11:04 AM,
Ludwig Wittgenstein said…
You, Elberry.
At July 29, 2009 11:05 AM,
elberry said…
Yeah, i know. Weirdo. Get a haircut.
At July 29, 2009 11:05 AM,
Steve Jobs said…
Tossers.
At July 29, 2009 11:10 AM,
Judy said…
I'm definitely not Elberry. I'm not even here, really, I'm just looking for my trombone.
TRRRRROMMM-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!
At July 29, 2009 11:14 AM,
Gaw said…
Whoosh. Nature abhors a vacuum.
At July 29, 2009 12:19 PM,
Peter Burnet said…
No surprise you lost the muse just after that post on Lovelock. Once you figure out that everything is connected to everything else, there isn't a lot more to say. You should never have let Nige slip through your grasp. He knew when it was time to talk about butterflies.
At July 29, 2009 12:19 PM,
Mark said…
Time for a trip?
At July 29, 2009 4:02 PM,
Brit said…
No, Mark, he shouldn't be resorting to drugs for inspiration yet.
Not until he's at least exhausted the Guardian comment pieces.
At July 29, 2009 7:59 PM,
Mark said…
Ah but Guardian comment is a drug, Brit. The drug of discontent!
At July 29, 2009 10:17 PM,
Michael Smith said…
I'll play my harmonica mournfully until something more interesting happens.....
At July 30, 2009 8:37 AM,
malty said…
No muse is good muse.
At July 30, 2009 4:23 PM,
malty said…
Just a passing thought, dragging one's blog behind one like Linus's blanket can lead to all sorts of unlooked for complications.
At July 30, 2009 5:23 PM,
James Higham said…
22 comments to date say you're doing the right thing, Bryan.
At July 30, 2009 9:23 PM,
Gaw said…
Bryan, I know theatre often (usually?) disappoints but I'd recommend a trip to see Jerusalem. May provide some blogspiration.
At July 30, 2009 9:35 PM,
Rus Bowden said…
Hi Bryan,
Haven't you been wearing your cowboy boots?
Yours,
Rus
At July 31, 2009 11:40 PM,
Susan B. said…
Hello. The mind abhors a vacuum. Cats also abhor vacuums. Bryan abhors cats.
My stomach hurts. Cheerio(s)
At August 01, 2009 11:40 AM,
Uncle Dick Madeley said…
And can I recommend the dancing monkeys?
At August 01, 2009 2:30 PM,
elberry said…
Secretly, you want to hand over your blog to Richard Madeley.
At August 01, 2009 5:33 PM,
Uncle Dick Madeley said…
Actually, Elberry, I would like to apologise for my early link to those ridiculous monkeys. This is the link to the dancing monkeys I meant to post.
At August 02, 2009 8:29 AM,
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At August 02, 2009 10:26 AM,
Ms Baroque said…
Well I hate to be pedantic in the face of such a thing, but surely within the construct of the transcription of 'n' to 'm', you should be saying 'Mo Muse is Good Muse' Chip's got the right idea.
Having said that I'm a bit blogweary myself. Maybe it's the summer. The effort on our immune systems of fighting off swine flu. No... maybe time for a cup of tea.
At August 04, 2009 3:30 PM,
Uncle Dick Madeley said…
This blog has now achieved a Zen-like state. I find that I come here to relax and to rake your pebbles.
At August 04, 2009 3:42 PM,
Brit said…
Yes, this is now my all-time favourite Thought Experiments post, beating even The Guns of Norwich.
At August 05, 2009 10:28 AM,
Big Chip Dale said…
I'm happy to stand here shaking my moneymaker as long as this silence continues.
At August 05, 2009 12:59 PM,
Uncle Dick Madeley said…
I don't know if it's the silence getting to me but I have now started to hang around Ed Hardy's socks.
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