Creative Exercises

My creative writing exercise for today was writing a humorous response to a creepy late-night incident. Since it relies very heavily on the material in the original account, I'll just point your browser to it here (requires EK membership).

My creative photography exercise was to try to capture the mood of the Williamstown RSL (Returned Servicemen's League) club where some of my friends were playing 60's hits (Rolling Stones, Beatles, Elvis, T-Rex etc) last night. The club's ex-president came up to have a chat with me later. He saw me taking photos and wanted to make sure I wasn't "up to no good".

I've just finished off reading Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio and started reading PTerry's Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. After the heavy biology lesson I needed some light humour. Darwin's Radio was not a literary masterpiece, but a plausible extrapolation of the mysteries of human genetics developed into a satisfying story. He has kept himself abreast of the very recent moves against gradualism and postulated some fairly radical evolutionary punctuation. His pictures of the politics of science and the mass hysteria of world-wide disease epidemics were disturbing, considering he wrote it all before the SARS outbreak.