by Jackie Bailey | Aug 24, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
A week of beginnings. A week of close shaves with false fates. If you walk too slowly, you’ll fall into another destiny headlong. There may be spluttering brilliance; it’s hard to see through the smoke. If you walk too quickly, you might trip over into...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 20, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
And what a week it will be, well, it already is! The sky, in its blue imitation of infinity, will shower nonsense poetry into the heads of all those of a mind to heed it. There are some wonderful sounds to be had this week: words like gumdrop, pernickety, codswallop,...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 20, 2009 | Random insights
I almost got it – the knife to the gut, the pale cold hand of no-more-hereafter. BUT I survived, and here I am to blog about it! That’s right: I survived the bloggers’ curse, that slithering creature which creeps up on bloggers near and far, about...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 28, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
A momentous week, a week of sunrises that mean something. You’ll have an opportunity to find the best in you under the darkest of circumstances. Pressures and stresses will try to sever you from your feelings, but you will stay strong, ensuring that you treat...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 22, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
This week you will start as dangerous as a wild cat, stalking the urban streets for your next meal. The people you meet will look at your eyes and glance quickly away; your own reflection will stare defiantly back at you, unwilling to blink first. But soon enough,...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 10, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
Last week, I introduced you to Mr Middleton. I have provided an excerpt for you below, from my interview journals with Mr Middleton, from when I first came across him. It was on a meandering walk I took, through Paddington, not long after I had moved to Sydney. Not...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 8, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
This week, love is in the water, grass, trees, the air you don’t hesitate to breathe. You are fleet-footed this week, running as light as light from one task to another, and that’s when you’ll feel it; the thrum, the silent, hidden buzz; that’s...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 2, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
May I introduce to you Mr Middleton. Mr Middleton. Say hello. MM: Oh, uhmm. Yes, but the impersonality co-efficient. If it was to the power of z, then proportionally it might make no difference to the material transfer. Where’s that glass? ...
by Jackie Bailey | May 27, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
Once upon a time there was a city called Sydney. I met Hoang back at Berkelouw’s two weeks later, to see the character drawings and the first of the scenes. We had agreed to do this to check that we were on the right track. Hoang brought his wife, Cat, with...
by Jackie Bailey | May 24, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
You may feel like it’s a bit too soon for the week to begin, but it will begin without you if you don’t hurry into your best shoes and don a nice smile to welcome the new days, each one freshly minted from the giant day-press on the other side of the sky....
