Life Before Internet

Daily writing promptDo you remember life before the internet?View all responses Photo by brotiN biswaS on Pexels.com Hi Stranger, great to meet you. Hey – come away from that computer screen there’s something i want to show you see this paper thing ? they call it a news paper a news device for those who …

In Two Minds

#Thoughts #Writeclub #weather It’s Cold outside (Is it ? to a polar bear – it’s boiling!) The frost making pretty patterns (till it melted into a puddle) stuck to the top of modern chariots (now cascading into the canal) while winged creatures practice unorthodox procedures (no longer on the rooftops, chancing the waterways instead) More …

MP3 resurrected the radio star

#radio #comic #video #MP3 Photo by Monica Silvestre on Pexels.com They say that many a comic has died a death on stage back in the days before telly their acts were all the rage They’d record their gags in a studio in front of a selective few and transmit it across the radio where the …

Just another day in lockdown

#Socs #Day lights lift on a saturday morning over in another spot, creative sportsmen were getting ready for a game keepers having no distraction as up in the stands there’s no direction from the fans of course, they’ll be back when they say its safe to do do, but for now, they’ll have to make …

Trick or Treat ?

#Socs #Halloween #Trick #Treat #octpowrimo Jackolanterns (art by inky) No lanterns coming to the front porch No ghosts floating past the door No Vampires not worrying ’bout their canines No Werewolves coming to explore The street is surprisingly quiet the children all indoors as parents keep them from bugs in the air and other nasty …

Interruption

#Television #Technology #Nature #Birds #Art #octpowrimo Digital Telly was never supposed to be like this with the computer looking after the signal it was supposed to be clearer and sharper with up to the minute relayed information on your big screen TV They never saw your aerial being used as a perching post…..

Monday

Salford, April 27 2020 Where did the weekend go ? start of a week in a time of lockdown quarter to seven – even the resident birds are still sleeping a new feathered friend flies past the window he mustn’t have got the memo Right about now Ra is popping his head up over the …

Sliced

#Sliced #Glitch Picture in Pieces (p + c – inkdrop) Satellite imagery is wonderful technology Landing pictures on our telly screens from far far away Interference from Meteors, Asteroids (or even a Martian or two) Can make the snap from the satellite look not as Exact as you would have expected it Directors playing jigsaw …

Bluffing

False   For a while now a section of the press has lacked the actual skills required to go out and seek a newsworthy story. even the TV News is doing it, its not just the papers   Falsehoods blur the lines and your regular citizen cant see whats going on, as lies are hidden …