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Interesting Things – Lake Issyk Kul
This peaceful, serene waterscape in Kyrgyzstan holds for me at least two interesting facts. Not that the water is said never to freeze, despite the lake being surrounded by snow-capped mountains (although that is kind of interesting). Or that the shores of the lake are full of health resorts (although this will become ironically interesting soon). I’m mostly interested in its connections to plague (see?) and drowned cities (you can make you’re own guesses as to what kind of story I’m working on right now). Plague on the Silk Road Historians think that Lake Issyk Kul, being a popular stopover point on the Silk Road in medieval times, was the…
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The best jokes are dangerous …
“The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.” Source: The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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Throwback Thursday – The Confetti Job
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Poster for Siren Song
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2014 – Stuff Happened
I’ve been a bit quiet on the social media front this year as unfortunately, and against my better judgement, I’ve turned out to be a superstitious soul. You see, I was born with a heart defect and this year I finally had to get it fixed. This was also the year that my first feature went into production at exactly the same time as I got admitted to hospital – my birthday, as a matter of fact (only the night shift radiographer clocked the date). Up until this year, I had two major life ambitions: to have a film I wrote made into a real thing and to avoid surgery.…