Found this in a box yesterday - apparently I wrote to J K Rowling as a teenager and this is the letter I got back. Pretty good form letter huh?
Ghost Advertisting
Sample articles:
- 450 periods to have in your lifetime and other fun uterus activities
- Flying High: Why Wings Are Best
- Bad Blood: investigating Toxic Shock
- “Hide Your Bathroom Bin”, and 12 other evil pranks to play on your friends
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Definitive ranking of top 7 days of the week to have your period
- Blood on the Tracks: Readers’ terrible transport disasters
Schrodinger's Introvert - is this phrase comforting or isolating?
Really keen for a Smallville-style prequel series about Jesus. It would include:
- "You can't tell me what to do, Joseph - you're not my real Dad" - The Holy Ghost playing Peeves-style pranks and getting JC into trouble at school - JC turning water into booze for his buddies and getting grounded, but they get round it by lowering themselves through his roof - JC trying out parables to get out of housework: "You see, mum, if you think about it the dirty dishes should stay there as a reminder of the sin and dirt on the souls of humanity. ... Er, yeah, you're right, it IS my job to wash away sin. My bad. Wow, that really backfired." - John, the star of the local basketball team, gets called "The Baptist" cause he's so good at dunking
Poster at Union Chapel
BRING ME ALL THE MUFFINS AND BAGELS IN ALL THE LAND
"Take some more tea", The March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "So I can't take more"
"Women against Feminsim"
If you, as a woman, say you are "against feminism", you are one of the following:
a) Wilfully ignorant of the hard won feminist victories that have led to you feeling like you don't experience misogyny in your life. A more accurate description would be "I don't feel like I need any MORE feminism. I'm happy with the feminism that has already happened which allows me to vote, own property, have autonomy over my own body...etc etc"
b) Blissfully optimistic that you, personally, will never be victimized at all because of your gender in the future. The statistics on sexual violence alone show 1 in 5 women aged 16-59 in the UK have experienced some form of sexual violence since age 16. 65% of women in the US have experienced some form of street harassment. Even if you don't feel you have needed feminism so far, the likelihood is you will need it in the future. (Sources: http://www.rapecrisis.org.uk/Statistics2.php, http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/statistics/)
c) Hopelessly self-centred; you may not feel you need feminism in your life. Look beyond your life to the issues faced by women around the world. Forced marriage. Sex trafficking. Girls denied access to education. Women denied access to healthcare. Saying you are "against feminism" because you feel you have equality already is like saying you are "against glasses" because you have 20/20 vision. Great - good for you. I'm glad you can see. Please don't fight against something which is trying to allow others to see as well.
What your cutlery talks about when you're not looking.
I dream of having an epitaph as distinguished as William Thompson (Bendigo) 1811-1880. All England Bare-Knuckle Prizefighter, reformed drunkard, turned evangelist.
Bunkhouse Cardiff http://www.bunkhousecardiff.co.uk/
Glasgow Botanical Gardens