by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Monday, Monday. From where I am sitting, Monday looks like it’s going to be a day of hope. You will buy your morning coffee (or decaffeinated tea), hopefully; you will cross he street, glad of a respite in the traffic; you will catch your scarf (or hanky) as...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
A jump forward in time to the present. Today I spent a rainy Sunday in, helping to write an application for a funding grant to develop an alternate reality game (ARG) based on Mr Middleton, which takes the teleporter metaphor and makes it into real life. Without the...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
It’s raining where I am, and so my predictions may be somewhat rain-streaked. Your Sunday is going to be a day of seeing your reflection in windows, thoughtful and magical and maybe a little, tiny bit sad. But sadness is nothing to fear, especially if you...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 17, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
In Part 4, I recounted my phone call with Shaun Tan, asking if he might be interested in illustrating my book, Mr Middleton’s Teleporter. He politely told me that he couldn’t do it, which led my fiance to suggest that we advertise in order to find an...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 17, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for Saturday! Finally, the opportunity you have been waiting for all week. Forget the washing (or, if you must put it on, do it quickly and don’t dawdle to think about stain remover). Lay out your best threads and then march right past...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 16, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Today being Friday, it’s your time to shine. Shine in the manner of a gracious star, light years away, sending shoots of brilliance towards eyes it can’t be sure even exists, all this distance away to see it. Shine in the way a shoe does, when it has...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 15, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
This World you live in requires gods and goddesses (something to do with its radiation signature after the Big Bang). Today, it’s your turn on the pedestal. Twist your head slowly, elegantly, as if it were made of plaster. Use your power for good, not evil....
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 14, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
Today is a brilliant blue, a verdant green, a mustard yellow. You’ll feel every sense on fire with the colours that tickle the back of your eyelids, even when you are blinking, saying, open up, look at me, soak me in! If you are colour blind, you will be...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 13, 2009 | Self-publishing Mr Middleton's Teleporter
I left my last blog post about Mr Middleton, staring incredulously at my fiance who had just suggested that I call the esteemed Shaun Tan about illustrating my book. Like, as if he was a regular person, and not some kind of illustrating savant. My betrothed...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 13, 2009 | Everyone's daily horoscope
My apologies for missing the 13 April’s horoscope. I believe I was asleep before the end of the evening news last night. To make up for it, how about a day of spectacle on the 14 April? These are the types of amazing events you can expect to witness: 1....
