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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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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2008-05-06 18:37:00 Film producer Matthew Raymond is to acquire film rights to novelist David Callinan’s as yet unpublished suspense thriller ‘Confess Confess’ (booktrade.info).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
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
Everybody who?s anybody in film & trade publishing - hurry, hurry!
2007-09-02 18:55:00 For those of you who have never heard of Gerard Jones then it’s time to check him out. Gerard is a 65 year old writer living in the US who started to chronicle the 500,000 rejections he has so far received for his books and suggested screenplays. In so doing he compiled an online directory and ... More About: Books , Film , Publishing , Trade , Everybody
The battle of Trafalgar 2007 - one act play
2007-08-20 23:27:00 Nelson: “Order the signal, Hardy.” Hardy: “Aye, aye sir.” Nelson: “Hold on, that’s not what I gave to the signal officer. What’s the meaning of this?” Hardy: “Sir?” Nelson (reading aloud): “England expects every person to do his duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious persuasion or disability”. “What gobbledygook is this?” Hardy: ... More About: Play , Battle
Could Noah beat political correctness?
2007-08-16 12:07:00 I am indebted to Roy Tallis for this new spin on the Noah ’s Ark tale (with sting attached). A real TALL STORY. In the year 2007 the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in England and said, “Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh ... More About: Political , Political Correctness , Beat , Poli
So, what is reality when it?s at home?
2007-08-14 00:04:00 I guess that the most fundamental question any one of us on this fragment of dust can ever ask ourselves, and one that can sound profound or pretentious is - what is reality? It’s an interesting question. It’s one that another blogger I’ve come across has had a stab at answering http://omniverse.blogspot.com/. But how many ... More About: Reality , Home , Ality
JK Rowling in my local pub - by ?Mugglewort? Wood
2007-08-05 19:23:00 It seems that either the day before or after the premiere of the latest Harry Potter movie, author JK Rowling was seen having lunch at “The Bell’, a pub in the village of Littledean in the Forest of Dean. No idea what she had but what was she doing there? A number of things come ... More About: Wood , Local , JK Rowling , Wort
The art of the thriller
2007-07-31 16:19:00 I have just finished the first draft of my new thriller. The result is a quite unnatural feeling of longing. It’s almost as though the book you couldn’t wait to finish writing you now cannot bear to end. I plan to leave it dormant for a while and let it stew in its own juices ... More About: Books , Thriller , The A , The Art
What?s wrong with US literary agents?
2007-07-24 09:45:00 It makes me mad. I contacted a UK-based film production company recently in the hope of getting a chance to pitch some film and TV projects. This, after spending time and money being stimulated and encouraged at the recent Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival. “We only accept submissions via literary agents’, I was told. That’s fairly normal. ... More About: Agents , Wrong , Tera , With U , Literary
The Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival
2007-07-18 15:55:00 It’s not often I go to festivals like this - in fact I don’t think I have ever been to one. For the UK film industry it did seem to attract some big names well worth listening to. There were people such as screenwriters Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix); William ... More About: Festival , Cree , Screenwriters
My album has become a collector?s item
2007-07-06 23:53:00 I was quite amazed when I found out that an album I made in 1972 has become a surprise underground rare hit and been sought after by fans and collectors all over the world. Here’s one site that people are dowloading tracks from http://www.last.fm/music/Callinan-Flynn&# 8221; They are calling it folk-psych (whatever that is). A new wave Irish ... More About: Music , Item , Album , Coll , Collector
Conspiracies are good for your health
More articles from this author:2007-06-26 10:04:00 Below is an extract from the front page of an interesting site that documents just about every conspiracy or perceived conspiracy that exists. I love a good conspiracy theory and one part of me wants to believe it all. Much of this stuff COULD be true. The site has a similar name to the ... More About: Health , Conspiracies , Good , Cons , Heal 1, 2 |
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