The Man in The Mirror

You can the two minute "The Write Space" feature on me and my home office that featured on The Good Word on Tuesday night here (at the end of part two).

Or you could watch this youtube clip of Michael Jackson:


Then read the first response in the Q&A published in Saturday's Dom Post:


(I did the interview with The Good Word and the newspaper 10 months apart and forgot I'd told that anecdote before. Also, I spoke for half an hour with The Good Word and had no idea how they'd cut it or what'd they'd have me say. In all, I think I sounded okay... coulda been a lot worse!)

Then look at this gallery of antique guns.

Funnily enough, that's exactly what I see all those hours I spend looking in the mirror: a gun-toting, GI Joe collecting pop legend.


Loosely connected

I may be appearing on Good Morning this coming Tuesday (around 9.45am on TV1).  I'm being cagey because these things tend to change often.  They do place some portions of the show online afterwards, so my huge international fanbase mightn't miss out either.


Poetry competition update

As per the comments in my previous post:

1. No, a yak is not a forest animal.
2. There's at least one other move (besides forest animal references) I reckon I pulled in this old yak poem.
3. The prize to the first non-anonymous commenter to correctly cite a move from this list in the above poem wins their choice of A Man Melting, The Long and The Short of It  or Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd (a freebie from Random House when I went to the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival; it's a beautiful book but I won't read it because I have this hate-hate thing with Venice... long story, by me a drink some time and I'll tell you).
4. I've probably scared of any potential commenters/entrants by being a hard-ass.