Tuesday, April 13, 2010

now that everythings been stolen, I'm here to get it back

you should always fess up to having great ideas. Roald Dahl says this in his autobiography Boy (which you ought to re-read, and follow it up with a good afternoon's sitdown with Going Solo). I have a truly remarkable idea. And a half.

The half idea is digitising the trawlings of the few dozen blogs I read into a quarterly e-publication (much like issuu.com) which can be downloaded for printing, which is completely content driven; the artwork, articles, images all come from the ordinary (hah! as if!) ramblings of the sphere (with permission, naturally), with the inclusion of short narratives (read "editorial opinion") to contextualise phrases, swear words and pictures. The idea wouldn't be to sell or advertise or serve any philosophy, its just a small way of eternalising writings that (I strongly suspect) will one day be lost.

I'm working on working on that.

The Fully fledged idea needs some ink and arm gestures now that I think about it. I'll get on that next week.

I'm afraid I still remain the luckiest boy alive :)

3 comments:

Azra said...

Good idea. I explored a smiliar idea once, with Miss or Mrs. Saaleha Bamjee Mayet. But then life got in the way.

Go for it boet ;)

Antonio said...

Excellent idea dude. Toyed with making my previous blog into a book a few years back.

M Irfaan said...

thanks for the support of the idea guys.

was chatting to the Sam about it last week, and I feel very settled on BToS as a title for the magazine.

Hm? Oh, it stands for Bean Tins on String. like the tellyfones we used to make when we were properly little :)