My original publisher has decided to try and rip off about two-hundred of their two-hundred and fifty authors for $149 each (about $30,000) so I decided it was way past time to republish, using Angry Orchid Publishing, my own company.

I designed this new cover.

I feel I deserve to make myself a cheese sandwich.

I need some more reviewers.

Father Brown was walking down the street when he met little Tommy coming the other way. Little Tommy was coming back from the corner shop, with a loaf of bread under his arm. Tommy had his hand in his trouser pocket as he walked, and was playing with his bits. The good priest felt he should correct this, but do it diplomatically.

“Hello Tommy,” he said, “I see you have The Staff of Life in one hand. What do you have in the other?”

“A loaf of bread,” said little Tommy.

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This coming May, the 2010 Lambda Literary Awards will be presented in New York for books published last year with an LGBT theme.

I’ve entered my novel Zorn in two of the twenty-four different categories, the one for Bisexual Fiction, and the one for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror.

Entries were taken this January just gone, and the judges are currently reducing the long lists (linked above) down to the lists of finalists .

By a recent message, Dan the theologian exhorted me to…

Copy and paste this mass message and send it to all of your friends and subscribers.

“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32-33

If you are not willing to send out this mass message to all of your friends it is probably because you are not willing to take a stand for Jesus. So some day He will just have to deny you before the Father when you get to Heaven.

So send out this mass message to all of your friends.

Excellent stuff. But I’m sure Dan didn’t intend me to adopt a narrow minded, bigoted, sectarian approach to the subject. I’m convinced he didn’t want me to fall into the error of pretending that the Christian scriptures carry the only valid records or reasonings on God (theo-logy, if you like to speak Greek, or if you prefer plain English, God-logic.)

So, as we live in a world where there are many religions, and many good people bursting both their hearts and brains as to how to approach nearer to the Creator, and many good people bursting their balls in an effort to evade the pain of dealing with those who inflict religion on others…

…I’ve put together of few extracts from a few of the Wider World’s books that are usually termed “holy,” in my own brief, feeble attempt to act against what has surely been one of the larger boils on the Wider World’s arse: the western belief (in reality, no longer held by all that many westerners) that we own the only “genuine” revelation.

So from the Baghavad Gita (Song of God) thought to be pre-500 BC…

And from a famous rabbi, I believe Rabbi Hillel…

“Do to others as you would be done to yourself. All the rest is detail.”

Hillel was challenged to explain the whole of Jewish teaching during the time that his challenger could stand on one leg.

The Buddists have the Tripitaka (the Three Baskets.)

“Even as all the sea has the flavour of salt, so all my teachings have the flavour of freedom.”

Gautama Sidharta, commonly known as The Buddha. Approx. 500 B.C. 

The Muslims have Al Koran, (The Recitation) but also the Hadith (pronounced hadiss.)

“Say Bismillah ( in the name of God) over it, then eat.”

From The Hadith (the sayings and acts of Prophet Mohammed.) The meaning is that a poor woman’s goat had become ritually unclean, therefore uneatable. Mohammed considered her starvation, and so set aside the minor dietary rules. About 600-630 AD.

There that’s better, and I’m only sorry I haven’t more time and patience to make it longer. I’m sure that’s what Dan really wanted, if he’d thought before he acted. Foot-and-mouth is a terrible disease of animals, but foot-in-mouth a terrible disease of man.

Literary works by me of great clarity,  depth, importance, and entertainment value for money.
 

“Yoghurt,” ask healthkicker, “is it really all that healthy?”

Why of course it is. Everyone knows that.

And if you eat it with the spoon you scrape the kitty litter with – as I do – you get roughage too, and that’s even healthier!

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Human beings are creatures of thought, feeling and desire, who for the most part appreciate help and detest oppression, which they will ultimately throw off.

Any man who is considering inflicting his ill-considered religious beliefs on others should first practice by attempting to thrust a cucumber into the anus of a sleeping tiger.

He may by a swift, determined effort be initially successful, but the later consequences should teach him that he is mere flesh, not God.

Following the heartening news of Egyptian Christians and Muslims working together for their county’s freedom, It’s good to note that Toronto also boasts a new example of inter-faith tolerance and cooperation.

GTA’s first ever Shia-Sunni cemetery opens
Wednesday January 26 2011 By NOUMAN KHALIL

For the first time in the history of the Greater Toronto Area, the Muslim community has managed to acquire its own cemetery where a person can be buried according to Islamic principles and philosophy.

Setting an example to the entire world, the GTA’s brotherly Shia and Sunni communities pooled $3.4 million each to purchase a 40-acre parcel of land from the Jewish community. The area, situated at the corner of Bethesda Road and Leslie Street, thus becomes the first ever Muslim cemetery of the region.

“It’s like a dream come true,” a jubilant Abdulhaq Ingar, board member of the newly established Toronto Muslim Cemetery Corporation, told Focus in an exclusive talk in Toronto this week.”After a long, long struggle and hard work, we managed to establish our own cemetery. I think that’s a big achievement for all of us,”
said Ingar, who represents the Sunni’s Islamic Society of Toronto.

“We have finally accomplished a long-term desire, for which our community was trying for many, many years,” added Sabi Ahsan, one of the GTA’s Muslim leaders who played a key role from the Shia side, working together wiht the Islamic Society of Toronto.

I too wish to join in congratulation, and wish these worthy gentlemen a long life to enjoy their new facility.

That’s is what people need, success! I know, I understand; people are frustrated, angry, wanting, despairing, and that’s what they need, not bullshit. Success, and in every area! Yes, that’s the thing, that’s how I should start the year. I should do people a service, not be all mean and bitter and twisted. Step into the gap, fill the need. Tell ‘em how to do it, explain, every last detail. Then they can apply themselves – application! marvellous stuff. When you’ve learned all this that I’m teaching now, be sure to keep your eye on the ball – no wandering, no slacking – eye on the ball, song in your heart, all that good stuff. Go for it. You can do it. Elbow grease they used to call it, and if you use a little of that with all I’ve taught here, it’s easy. Bingo! No sweat! Straight to the top! Just muse on all you’ve learned here, use it enthusiastically, and… bingo! So there you are, all you need explained. No need to thank me, it’s been a pleasure working with you. Just a little spare dribbling from the goodness of my heart.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is awarded in Toronto each year for a novel or short story collection published in that year and written by a Canadian.

Congratulations to this year’s winner, announced at 9 p.m. this evening, to….

Johanna Shively Skibsrud

for

The Sentimentalists

The Giller is Canada’s most prestigous literary prize, with a cash award of $50,000. It was set up in 1994 by Jack Rabinovich, in memory of his wife Doris Giller, a literary editor of the Toronto Star.

The four runners-up on the shortlist also receive an award, of $5,000 each.

Bugger off filthy leper

With thy tinkle tinkle bell

Thy arse is crumbling

Thy balls have dropped off

I love thee not

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