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Tall StoryTall Storyblog of novelist and screenwriter David Callinan exploring the human condition through books, movies, politics and metaphysics
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Airport scanners blow up passengers
2010-06-20 11:13:00 A friend of mine has this original solution to the threat of airline terrorism. All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you … Continue reading → More About: Airport , Scanners , Conspiracies
YA fantasy trilogy finished in time for election
2010-04-15 09:56:00 It has been some time since my last post but I felt after several years of consistent blogging I really needed a rest. Since then there has been a litany of topics that have had me spitting bullets, usually connected … Continue reading → More About: Fantasy , Time , Election
£3,000 for not rearing pigs ? let?s all do it
2009-12-06 19:08:00 Dear Secretary of State, My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs.. I would now like to join the “not rearing pigs” business. In … Continue reading →
Anti political correctness campaign
2009-12-02 11:38:00 There really should be a fight back by most sensible (or even insensible) people against the corrosive effect of the political correctness agenda that is insinuating itself into almost every aspect of our lives. I include in this the terrifying … Continue reading → More About: Political , Campaign , Political Correctness
Sorry for Nick Griffin?
2009-10-23 21:10:00 Image by Rex Chen via Flickr The furore over BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC TV’s ‘Question Time’ shows no sign of abating. I have to say, I knew very little about Nick Griffin or his past comments before … Continue reading → More About: Politics
Checks on adults supervising children
2009-09-15 17:56:00 I must join the ranks of the voices raised against the plans and the new quango set up to bring tighter controls and background checks on people who have more than a passing contact with children other than their own. … Continue reading → More About: Children
Husbands and wives
2009-09-07 21:12:00 Rodney Dangerfield A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong. Image via Wikipedia David Bissonette When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry After marriage, husband and … Continue reading → More About: Wives , Husbands
Joined the Twitter generation and trying to work it out
2009-08-28 17:13:00 Image by luc legay via Flickr I have been a trifle late getting on board the Twitter bandwagon. I am not sure I can be bothered with Facebook or MySpace. People say they are good for business but I think … Continue reading → More About: Work
Socializer ? free automatic social bookmark submission
2009-08-12 17:43:00 Socializer – free automatic social bookmark submission. More About: Social , Bookmark , Free , Automatic , Submission
£1m to walk in the countryside
2009-08-11 20:04:00 I was staggered to hear that the UK Lottery Fund is to make £1m available to be spent on encouraging ethnic minorities to experience the British countryside – walks, treks, exploration and all that goes with it – weather and … Continue reading → More About: Politics
Naked Pierce Brosnan - why the interest?
2008-05-28 09:51:00 It’s funny. I put up a post about a time many years ago when I co-wrote a Celtic rock musical for the Edinburgh Festival that starred a naked (and young) Pierce Brosnan . Since then, the post has been by far the most popular on this blog - despite all the other stuff happening on the ... More About: Interest
What they say about Pompeii
2008-05-23 18:49:00 I’ve had a short break from this blog because I’ve been on holiday. My wife and I went to Amalfi, halfway down the peninsula between the Bay of Naples and the Bay of Salerno. It boasts one of the most exciting yet nerve wracking roads in the world - the Nastro Azzurro. This puts hairpin ... More About: Philosophy , Capri
Film option for thriller novelist - press coverage
2008-05-06 18:37:00 Film producer Matthew Raymond is to acquire film rights to novelist David Callinan’s as yet unpublished suspense thriller ‘Confess Confess’ (booktrade.info). Anglo-Irish writer Callinan is the author of ‘Fortress Manhattan’ (Gollancz) and ‘Face Lift’ (Ocean House). US literary agent James Schiavone handles book rights and is currently shopping ‘Confess Confess’ ? first of a series ? ... More About: Books , Film , Press , Thriller , Coverage
Whatever happened to all the wild young children?
2008-04-24 20:41:00 I am watching a TV programme about ‘Wind In The Willows’, the all-time classic children’s tale of the river bank with some of the greatest quotes of all time. Kenneth Grahame based his mythical story on the Thames side village of Cookham, where he lived as a child. The programme made the point that as a ... More About: Children , Books , Wild , Young
Naked Pierce Brosnan is not the only tall story
2008-04-18 20:56:00 It must say something about people’s predelictions and interests but my post about a young, naked Pierce Brosnan (perfectly true) seemed to get more hits than any other post on this blog. I thought it might be the inclusion of the word ‘naked’ that seemed to tag readers. I’m just glad that a few people ... More About: Books , Story , Tall
Send me your scams
2008-03-17 18:48:00 I’ll bet I’m not the only one who gets inundated with spoof emails from someone claiming to be an African prince down on his luck or the beneficiary of a will who just needs some schmuck to help him move six million dollars out of the country. These scams come thick and fast and I ... More About: Conspiracies , Scams , Send
80% of us dead by 2100
2008-03-06 21:13:00 Well, it’s official! At least, it is according the scientist, futurist and Gaia proponent James Lovelock. By the year 2100, 80 percent of the world’s population will have perished; victims of climate change, or in Gaian terms, the revenge of the planet. He proposes that our current obsession with sustainability, banning plastic bags, Kyoto agreements, ... More About: Dead
Naked rejection: you have to take it on the chin
2008-02-19 10:16:00 There are some people who can take rejection, bounce back and prove the rejectors wrong, short-sighted or just plain stupid. I suppose if you want to be some kind of sales person (and I have a high regard for really good sales people) then you just have to able to refuse to take rejection personally. ... More About: Rejection
Your life in six naked words
2008-02-05 18:41:00 ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’ was Hemingway’s famous attempt at a six word story, or autobiography. The craze for the six word story (whether your own life tale or a condensed news piece) seems to have taken off BBC Radio 4 challenged listeners to send in six of their best. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/ 2008/02/a-story-in-six.html. Why not give it ... More About: Life , Words
It?s Burns night - that?s Robbie Burns the freemason and poet
2008-01-25 09:43:00 Maybe it’s because I hail from a different Celtic country, but I feel an odd kinship with the Scots and with Scotland . So I am quite happy to celebrate the birthday of that country’s greatest bard, Robbie Burns , in the company of whisky, haggis, neeps and potatoes. We go to a little school room in the ... More About: Poetry , Night , Poet
From Elton John to Sai Baba
2008-01-13 12:17:00 I have been invited to do a local radio interview and it’s one of those shows that have a pool of standard questions that you pick out of a hat. Questions like: What book has had a lasting impression on you? What period of history would you like to have lived through? What’s the favourite ... More About: Politics , Books , Film , Elton John , John
Young adult fantasy is going well
2008-01-03 18:16:00 It seems that just by putting the word ‘naked’ into a title or tag has increased hits to this blog tremendously. I’m glad a few of you out there have managed to find ‘Tall Story’. I’m not sure yet how you go about linking to this blog (if you wanted to) or vice versa. I ... More About: Books , Fantasy , Young , Adult , Young Adult
Did naked Pierce Brosnan measure up to 007?
2007-12-30 12:57:00 Sorry for the tease in my last post about the time when I worked with a young Pierce Brosnan on a Celtic rock musical I co-wrote for the Edinburgh Festival. I remember Pierce very well, in fact, I gave him a lift back to London from Edinburgh in my battered van with a goat ... More About: Music , Books , Film
I saw Pierce Brosnan naked
2007-12-27 11:00:00 I went back to Edinburgh with my wife, who hadn’t been in the city since we were involved with a Celtic rock opera at the Fringe many years ago. It’s a beautiful city with normal licensing laws (unlike in the past when you couldn’t get a drink after ten o’clock). I could still remember the ... More About: Music , Film , Pierce Brosnan , Pierce , Bros
40 lashes or look good naked
2007-12-03 21:52:00 Nothing would seem to demonstrate the absurdity of the human condition in terms of hedonism on the one hand and blind adherence to dogma than a TV show in the UK and the recent accusation of a UK teacher in Sudan for blasphemy against Islam. A teacher called Gillian Gibbons was imprisoned in Sudan (released after ... More About: Politics , Good , Lashes
Budapest
2007-11-20 18:49:00 It was my first time in Budapest . I admit to a fascination by such cities as these and to the shifting fortunes of many countries within central Europe. Living in the UK, I am in a country that has not been occupied since the Norman’s tried to teach the locals French patois - although my ... More About: Books
Interview with Norm Goldman of Bookpleasures.com
2007-11-08 21:42:00 A Conversation With David Callinan, Novelist, Screenwriter and Musician Today, Norm Goldman is honored to have as our guest, David Callinan, Novelist, screenwriter and musician and author of Fortress Manhattan, The Ten Minute Miracle, Face Lift and Bodyswitch. Good day David and thanks for participating in our interview. Norm: You have worn many hats as screenwriter, musician and author, ... More About: Books , Interview
If you want to confess - do it online
2007-10-23 00:16:00 The headline is really a disguised plug. I’ve recently finished my new novel - the first of a series featuring a charismatic and very different protagonist named Mike Delaney. Confessions play a part in story but only a part. I’m not going to divulge the plot or sub-plots but I can tell you it’s probably ... More About: Books , Online , Fess
The Irish diet - lose weight while you drink your fill
2007-10-03 18:51:00 Every now and then I decide to go on a diet. At six feet five inches I am not exactly overweight at 200 pounds given that I run, race walk, swim, do Tai Chi and throw a few weights around most days. But, the Body Mass Index (BMI) indicates that I should lose at least ... More About: Diet , Weight , Drink , Lose Weight , Irish
Everyone?s jumping on the sacred bandwagon
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 19:01:00 I am sitting on a story that could shake the world. No, it’s true. My US agent has been shopping ‘An Angel On My Shoulder’ to a receptive bunch of editors and they have universally praised it while rejecting it. It is a dramatised true story that reads like a spiritual thriller. Well, that’s exactly what it ... More About: Books , Sacred , Jumping 1, 2 |
