Many regular readers will know at least something about Colin McGuire (or McGuire as he's often known online). He is a youngish man who lives over Glasgow way and he is a writer...a writer of some promise (though whether any literary scene will be able to hold him is another matter...). He blogs here.
Last year I became the lucky owner of his first book 'Riddled with Errors' and I was reading it the other night when I came across a piece of prose called 'A True History of the Banana'. I laughed and laughed as I read it and this made me happy because humour is (and always been) one of my main passions (and remember this is International Week of Huge Passion here at More about the song).
You can read the Banana treatise here (though it's a slightly different version to the one in the book because he's an awkward bugger that way, young McGuire...but I kind of love him for it...awkward buggers of the world unite and all that...some hope...all too bloody awkward).
Anyway, on that rambling and badly punctuated note, I'll move along. See you on the other side for TFE's 'next life' assignment.
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Your last sentence made me laugh! I always think that humour is the most difficult thing to write.
Well, seeing as I made you laugh, Weaver, I would agree that, yes, only very clever people can be funny.
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McGuire Rocks, as we know.
Shame the picture doesn't get much bigger, I can't get a look at him. :)
A man of mystery evidently.
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Thnak God there's another man of mystery round here.
Should we be concerned that you know so MANY men of mystery? :)
Haven't visited McGuire for a while...need to pop over and check. Thanks!
Some women might say all men are a mystery...but not me, I'd never generalise...
The banana post is an old one, Hope. The new one's more kiwi fruit.
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We love McGuire! Buy this book now!
He is an awkward bugger though.
Yes, but in the nicest possible way.
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A good post about McGuire here too.
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