I'm a sort of inner city gargoyle by nature. I knocked around for years being thematically broke, then finally got a stable job and began painting and playing music.

Finally got a chance to write, took a redundancy package, and have been writing solidly for nearly a decade. Soon found out how tough and irritating writing for a living can be, with an internet publisher vanishing on me, and playing paperchase around the world with publishers, collecting form letter rejections.

Having got heartily sick of that pretty quickly, I went looking for forums and paid writing sites and eventually got the taste of that experience out of my soul. Nobody deserves what the publishers are putting on writers these days. What crime have writers committed, to be inflicted with all this overpriced, commercially impotent, bureaucracy?

I have 5 books on www.lulu.com, and a lot of culture jam stuff, music, and book excerpts on the Sydney Media Jam site. These are some of my favorites, The Threat Hamster Papers, Mimbly Tales, and Wanderlaugh, three of a series about Celtic immortals roaming infinity, Ads, my take on the advertising industry and my first effort to write a "normal" novel, and Gardening Is A State Of Mind, which reflects if nothing else what gardening does the the psyche.

My passion is ...

Writing, music, graphics, ideas

I know too much about ...

Writing, music, graphics, ideas

My parents always told me ...

Try it, see what happens

My childhood ambition ...

Writing, playing music

My favorite memory ...

Too many to count

Why I write ...

Sheer love of it.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything, as far as I can tell.

My first job ...

Packing in a glass company

My best moment ...

Still waiting for it.

My inspiration ...

Voltaire, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov

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Colors of the Earth

The gardener's palette is the palette of God. Artists have tried for thousands of years to match it. "Living color" is no theory. The selection is practically infinite, the lines and combinations are infinite. Even the soil contributes.A good topsoil can add depth to any palette.

In temperate climates, the best use of color is seasonal, and the gardener has multiple modes. A classic case is the cottage garden, where plants combine in literal orgies of tones, primaries, and shades.

The defining beauty of natural colors is best learned from the native flowers. S...

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