zigzackly’s omnium-gatherum

A few of us in New Bombay who love poetry and the profusion of parks we are blessed with have decided we will combine the two. We me...

Some folk are mystified by the unconditional support for Israel from some Christians. (I don’t mean governments in Christian-majority cou...

I find it a bit sad that so much of the sorrow being expressed after Mathew Perry’s death is centred around a character he played in the...

I haven’t written here in a while. Bu this is just to note that it is 20 years to the day that I first posted here. The wee thing I had writ...

You took the grapes you took the limes But you went too far this time You stole my only breakfast      Jolene You know that this is zer...

I saw a post on Twitter (screenshot below, but I blurred out the OPs’ handles and display names because what I have to say is not about t...

Your friend the ceramist, who you regularly pester with n00b questions, has suggested making a plaster slab as part of your clay sculptur...

I was thinking the other day about the arts and making a living doing art. And I went from there to thinking about stand-up comedy as an ...

The problem with artistic / creative pursuits is making a living doing them, especially early in a career. A few, very few, will make...

I just realised that one of the things I miss most about Chembur, where I lived between ten years old and mid-20s, is the number of peop...