I’m not really a writer, as longtime FrillyShirt readers will attest. An essayist, perhaps, of the amateur sort, but when my pen touches fiction, it’s generally in a satirical style – nonsense stories of flying poets and crossdressing superheroes. It’s fun playing with antiquated uses of the English language, too – for instance, when a [...]
Lettres
Wherein the Author reflects upon certain topical & personal issues of the Day.
The archive for July, 2008
The following lettres were posted during this month:
Hanging Gardens
Posted upon the 21st of July, 2008
It’s hard to avoid the subject of environmentalism these days – there’s an environmental issue in the news every day, and it’s reached the point where only the lunatic fringe dismiss it as a lunatic fringe issue. As astute readers will be aware, I’m all for it, and think (in my optimistic moments) that ecologists [...]
Making Monarchs Out Of Molehills
Posted upon the 12th of July, 2008
A rare political post! I don’t do too many these days. I’ve been thinking, though, about what legitimates power. The answer, in Australia, certainly, is probably compliance with the four European political ideologies – democracy, liberalism, socialism, conservatism. A legitimate government must comply with the wishes of the masses, it must respect the freedom of [...]
Wedding Planning, A Guest Post By Lady Tanah Merah
Posted upon the 4th of July, 2008
I have come up with a new game, based on all the memes/google/image search entries as have been posted since journals and blogs were invented!
As most of you know, no, all of you I suspect, Sir Fred and I are planning our wedding. I’ve come up with an idea for a theme wedding … [...]