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Philip Wardlow is a burgeoning ever growing writer and poet delving into all the various aspects of the human condition. His writing tastes run to the Erotic most recently. In the recent past he has written to the Dark Urban Fantasy & Horror Genre which he still loves as well. He likes to dabble in all the various forms of poetry; from the sexy to the humorous, to the profound and beautifully sentimental and reflective. He has only been at this chosen path for a few of years and has produced one Novella published as an Ebook on Amazon called “Roadkill”. He has submitted and continues to submit various stories and poetry works to publications for consideration. Philip is working on a collection of Erotic Poetry due out in 2021 in ebook form and perhaps in paperback. He is also concurrently working hard on his other passion; photography. Philip believes he can have each foot planted in two distinctly different worlds of creativity there by inciting new ideas and growth at the same time in both.
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The secret life of Elgin Park

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I think this kind of stuff is cool…the guy put a lot of work into this …check it out!

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Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park.   Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park.   Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park.              Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park.

Welcome to the City of Elgin Park.

Michael Paul Smith is the perfect example of an artist with a passion for what he does. For the last 25 years, he has spent some of his spare and much of his professional time making miniature models and photographing them, creating a gallery of vintage car photographs from a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park.

As a professional model maker, Smith’s models are detailed enough to withstand the scrutiny of close-up photography. Smith places them in miniature dioramas and uses forced perspective to make parts of the real world lend his pictures additional realism. The result is a quirky sort of historical fiction – faithfully and authentically reproduced scenes from a small American town that never actually happened (but could have).

What’s also great about his Elgin Park collection is that the magician is willing to…

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The Fool’s fool – A poem

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The Fool’s fool –

 

A knight has his squire…

The Sun it’s faithful Moon which follows.

He is not so simple,  so fluid of purpose

or scene.

He is a machination of fate

desperate and wanting.

A vain creature picking at scraps

thrown at him.

A soul dwelling

in a misery of his own undoing

while a golden bauble sits in his

very own pocket.

He is a fool’s fool

and his master would be

very proud.

By Philip Wardlow 2014

 

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Desire – by Meg Myers – A an eerie erotic music Video

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She scares me and I like it…..:)

 

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The “Three Things ” Questionnaire

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Three Things…or is it Many Three Things.    What’s yours?  Curious minds wanna know.

My fellow blogger Jodi Llewellyn  posted yet another interesting blog she found at  girlinabasement  She decided it would be fun to alter it a little and fill it out.  I’m  a lazy bastard so I just copied hers below. Yeah, I’m like that. Go check out  her blog and  see the answers to her questions at her blogsite  called http://jodiellewellyn.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/the-three-questionnaire-for-writers/     .  So go check her out…but read mine first.. yeah I’m selfish and needy, so what!.

THREE THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF: 1. I am taking Fencing lessons. 2. I need to lose a good 20lbs.  3. I work as a Senior Technical Salesman overseeing idiots.

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: 1.  Dying before I can do what I wish to accomplish in life. 2.  Random acts of Violent Chance  3. Losing my hope and optimism.

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: 1.  My Family including my animals 2.  Escapism  in any fashion 3.  Coffee

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES: 1. Exercise 2. Reading/Writing. 3.  Movies

THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING/YOU’VE CONSIDERED: 1. An author.  2.  Archeologist – loved Indiana Jones  3.  Astronaut- would love to travel to Mars

THREE BOOKS YOU HAVE RECENTLY READ: 1. Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. 2. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. 3. Comic Books

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WORKING ON, WRITING WISE: 1. Rough Draft to first Novel called Fourth World– a Teen-, urban fantasy. 2. Finishing up Short Story called – The Power in Me  3.   Poetry Poetry  Poetry

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE: 1. Travel to Africa . 2. Be a published author. 3.  Have more friends

THREE FAV CELEB IDOLS: 1. Sting 2. Will Ferrell  3. Kristen Wiig

THREE QUOTES: 1. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion” – Abe Lincoln. 2. “Do not go gentle into that good night” – Dylan Thomas 3. “Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more…to give way to the  person you love” ― Winnie the Pooh

 

 

What are your answers fellow bloggers?

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Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

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This year I opted for  the ability to play Video on my blog…soooooooooo    I had to have my first video ever to the Music Video by the band Cage the Elephant for the song “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked“…:)

So if you have heard the song…listen…I hope you enjoy it. It sort of inspired the name of my blog.

GiFs for your Entertaiment, Inquiring Minds

I’m trying to Flap my Jack as fast as I can…

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Punching Water – A poem

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Punching Water –

If I had to describe  what  life was like

I would say it’s like punching water.

I flail with fists at this simple concoction of

wondrous matter with wild abandon.

Yet it feels no pain,  no emotion

Bruised knuckles connect to its surface

breaking the stream,

It simply cascades around my skin.

Surface tension,  caused by its bi-polar nature

reforms the flow after my useless flinging

of flesh has ceased.

My presence barely felt.

Strength is spent, muscles on fire,

breathing labored

I give up the fight

and  cup my hands to take a drink.

by Philip Wardlow 2014

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Watching you Read – An erotic love Poem

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Reading

Watching you Read –

Eyes downcast.

Intent.

Hardbound book in hand,

fingers lay splayed around its spine

caressing it with a familiar grip.

An upward curl of your  lips,

as baby blues dilate

momentarily

to drink in the words upon the page.

What adventure do you ride into?

What romance causes the rush I

see to come to pale pink cheeks?

Does the beat of your heart quicken, as

the rising action lifts your senses to the edge,

only to send you cascading off a cliff?

You are a mystery written in a foreign tongue, a conundrum, an enigma, a puzzle

within  a puzzle.

Had I the time

to spy all my days

as you luxuriate with knees

drawn up in quiet

meditation,

lost in a world of someone’s else’s

creation.

I would count myself a very

lucky man.

by Philip Wardlow 2014

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Rest in Peace Harold Ramis….Or Shake up the Afterlife like you did this one.

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List of Movies Harold Ramis, wrote or helped write, acted in, or directed  (or all three at once) –

Animal House

Stripes

Heavy Metal (voice acting)

Meatballs

Ghostbusters I, II

National Lampoons Vacation

Caddyshack

Groundhog Day

Airhead

Bayboom

Love Affair

High Fidelity

Orange County

The Last Kiss

Back to School

Analyze This

Analyze That

As Good as it Gets

The Ice Harvest

Club Paradise

Multiplicity

Stuart Saves His Family

Bedazzled

Knocked Up

Walk Hard: The Dewy Cox Story

Year One

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The Books & Authors that shaped my writing…

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I went to my library of books and pulled all the ones out that I thought shaped me as a writer in general. These are ones by certain authors, which I am sure, my subconcious mind draws upon when I write my own stories and poems.

The authors range from Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Julian May, Anne Rice, Magaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, David Eddings, Robert Jordan, J.K. Rowling, J.D. Salinger, Brandon Sanderson,Harry Harrison, Ayn Rand, Fred Saberhagen.

I also snuck in a picture of a Comic book as well because I have been reading those ever since I can remember, so how can they not  have shaped how I write on a daily basis?

Let me know what books and authors have shaped you as a writer or even if you are reader of many books in general.

I have read much Fantasy ranging from low to high, Conan The Barbarian anyone?   And ‘The Wheel of Time’ – an  EPIC Series by Robert Jordan. Oh, and don’t get me started on the wonderful series of J.K. Rowling’s – Harry Potter.  And there are so many more fantasy writers that drive  me.

How about the beautiful poignant literary novels such as  Ayn Rand’s – “The Fountainhead” ,  “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, J.D. Salinger’s – “Catcher in the Rye”,  or  Cervante’s –  “Don Quixote”

Are you a science fiction fan?  How about  Isaac Asimov’s – “Foundation Series”,  L. Ron. Hubbard’s – “Battlefield Earth”, or  Harry Harrison’s – “Stainless Steel Rat”.

Fancy some Horror?….  Stephen King, Anne Rice (even Ray Bradbury dabbled in it a little) ?

And lastly Comics…..Spiderman, X-men, Daredevil, Avengers, Hulk, X-force,Thor, Teen Titans, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and the list goes on…:)

I am discovering new ones as I speak. To me that’s the most  fun part of reading…finding that new favorite author.

What do you read…and what are your favorite stories?