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Gary Thomas

When I first lay on my bed and slipped in the Jeff Buckley-Live at Sine CD, I found myself submerged in something inexplicable, profound. Yes…

neilcoppenOctober 23, 2007

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EWOKâ€™S ODDESSY

Interview with MC- Iain Robinson about his show “SpitFire' Iain Robinson aka Ewok Baggends asks a lot of questions. He opens our interview with a…

neilcoppenOctober 23, 2007

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The Selective Memory of National Pride

No one wants to shit on the Springboks parade. Only cynical idiots might dare to do such a thing at such a time and thereby…

neilcoppenOctober 23, 2007

musings

WITHNEIL & I

I'm sitting in the stuffy heated room of a cottage somewhere in Joburgh, Fourways. The corporation has drained most, they wonder around supermarkets with cigarette…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

articles

THE INDOMITABLE ‘MR MACKEE’

Neil Coppen flies into London to attend a screenwriting Seminar by one the world's most revered and feared mentor's -Robert MacKee.In a lecture hall in…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

Childrens story

LOBZANG AND THE MOUNTAIN PIRATES

to Alex on his 6th Birthday His name was Lobzang(and although very young)was about to see a very BIG adventure through.How BIG you ask?well…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

musings poetry

Petulant Petals on a Mourning Mountain

There was an uprising on the mountain side yesterday, just over the decrepit old fence with its rusted barbs and rotten wood poles, on the…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

Short stories

ACCORDIAN MAN

I noticed him huddled amongst the harbor masters and hussies in a down town bar. I don't recall seeing a sadder more dejected looking fellow.…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

commentry musings travel

Buddhist Philosophy 101

My discovery lies in a sort of indifference to the world -at least my previous notions of itNothing really matters Nothing matters at all The…

neilcoppenSeptember 30, 2007

theatre

3 shorts extracts from ‘TIN BUCKET DRUM’

SCENE 6The table is turned to form a podium, and the narrator now slinks into the light as the tyrannical Censor wearing Military hat. The…

neilcoppenSeptember 28, 2007

Gary Thomas

EWOKâ€™S ODDESSY

The Selective Memory of National Pride

WITHNEIL & I

THE INDOMITABLE ‘MR MACKEE’

LOBZANG AND THE MOUNTAIN PIRATES

Petulant Petals on a Mourning Mountain

ACCORDIAN MAN

Buddhist Philosophy 101

3 shorts extracts from ‘TIN BUCKET DRUM’

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