Ashleylister

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• Super Powers.

  What a great theme! It made me grin when I saw what we were to write about. I’m not a comic book person (I only know the difference between Marvel and DC due... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Be a Super Hero Part 1

  Hmmm, super powers?It's an age old question, along with "what's better UFOs or dinosaurs?" and "Start Trek or Star Wars?" it's probably one of the most asked... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Please Sir, Can We Have Some More?

  This week on the blog, we've been looking at the road less travelled or, as I call it, the fightback of the British economy. You may be wondering what this has... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Road More Travelled

  

  by Ashley Lister I’ll be honest. There’s been some profound writing this week – moving stories about people who’ve taken the road less travelled. I admire... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Please Don't Travel Down This Road.

  (CURTAIN UP: We are inside a modern coffee shop with low warm lighting. Action bustles behind while Louise sits curled up on the sofa, slowly sipping from a... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• James Ernest Ellis

  

  passed away on 25th February 2013. He was 88 years old. Not a bad innings for someone who had seen his best friends killed on the battlefield in Burma and... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Something Glitters.

  Knitted shadows of stormy skies and twilight lies, Rain spilling into the sea, which beats against the rock, free. Something glitters against the water; she say... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Be Yourself, Like Yourself, Understand Yourself. Let Othe...

  Be yourself, like yourself, understand yourself. Let others like you, let other compliment you, don't worry if others don't understand you. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Faith

  Good morning readers.In what has been an exciting week both in and out of the news, I found myself almost falling over potential subjects for today’s blog.... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Please Define Bad for Me.

  Asking me "what is bad poetry?" is like asking me for my political preference. My politics are probably easier to answer actually, for at the moment as the... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Can I Use a Scientific Dictionary When Playing Scrabble?

  

  Bcl-2-associated death promoter (BAD)Don't pyknosisLittle cells know thisIf pyknosisBlebbing brings bulgesKaryorrhexisRavages... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sonnet [Explicit]

  “Hold him still, now” The Vet instructed the hands holding me down as he inspected my genitals with a gentle hand. “These tools you gave me are barely... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sonnet to Snails.

  Bad poetry… bloody hell I can’t comment I come out with awful stuff. At the beginning of my English degree, we were asked to write sonnets as a potential for ou... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• He's Not a Vogon, Just a Very Bad Poet

  

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes Vogon poetry as being “the third worst poetry in the Universe” with Azagoths of Kria coming in second. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Call a Spade a Sharp Edged Piece of Manual Digging Apparatus...

  Political Correctness, otherwise known as when should you not call a spade a spade?Nothing here is intended to offend - only emphasise irony. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• LGBTea

  

  On Thursday 28 February the young Ash Lister and I facilitated a workshop for the LGBTea Party at Blackpool's Town Hall. After watching an incredibly moving... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do NOT Read If Easily Offended

  OK. The theme is Political Correctness. For this reason I have thrown PC language out of the window. Do NOT read on if un-PC language offends you. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.

  This week’s theme is “political correctness”. Right *clears throat* This is a really complicated subject and one that easily offends people. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• Children's Writing

  

  by Colin Davies It's quite a funny thing to say “I write for children” when to be honest, I actually write for me. Even though I enjoy 90% of a Stephen King... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• About Last Night

  By Ashley Lister I know they say it happens to most guys. I know they say it’s no big deal. I know they say that worrying about it can make it more of a... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION