The Media Labyrinth
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Latest Fiction:
- Doubtful BrideOn the eve of her wedding a young woman is having serious doubts about whether she is doing the right thing. A chance encounter with an old flame brings things to a climax for her. Erotic fiction, graphic sex and adult content
- Blod Ties (Fiction; Vampire Spoof;)Blod Ties - Vampire Fiction, A bit of whimsy for the weekend. In Blod Ties a naive British tourist John Gormley takes a holiday in the ancient, remote kingdom of Perarboria. He does not suspect that his holiday romance with a local beauty is destined to last forever. (10,000 words) Presented as a free mini book, Blod Ties can be read online as a digital flipbook ...
- The Spirits Of Wycoller
- The Grey Lady Of Dunkenhalgh
- My HeroA surreal pastiche of those ripping yarns set on India's North West Frontier in the days of the Raj. The story is based on a Spike Milligan monologue and was written as a tribute to the great comedian
- Sawney BeanA gruesome but bizarrely comical tale of a young couple who escaped from the horrors of Edinburghs underground city to create a horror of their own.
- King of theRibble Delta BluesMost people think The Blues originated in the Mississippi Delta but this comic fiction reveals the music style actually originates from the Ribble Delta on the North West coast of England.
- Girl In A Blue DressA wistful, mildly erotic story of how a lifelong love can be sustained by a few secons' eye contact
- The Kiss (3 parts) Graphically erotic fiction tells the story of an ill matched couple who both have good reasons for avoiding relationships and yet are irresistibly drawn to each other (in three parts)
- Mr Wilde's Farewell (3 The last pub in London where serious drinking and light hearted conversation are the top attractions is under threat in this humourous fiction with a supernatural flavour. When the leisure corporation moves in weird things start to happen)
- New Olympians(4 parts)Corporate ethics go out of the window when huge profits are at stake. Short fiction in four parts tells the story of a man who dares to question his company's policies
- Gary Trotter & the Temple Of Venus Boy wizard Gary Trotter reaches the point in his life where natural urges lead him away from spells and potions to adult magic. Even his mentor Humblebore cannot protect Gary from his fate in this hilarious parody of the Harry Potter stories
- The Little CellphoneHeartwarmingly sentimental (not!) Christmas tale in a Dickensian style of a little Nokia that is discarded by its owner on Christmas Eve in favour of a shiny new iPhone. A traditional happy ending however.
- The Shoemaker Of BarkingWhen we heard that Heather Mills, the former Lady McCartney, employed a vegan shoemaker to travel in her retinue we wondered if our friend from Barking might have found work. A modern fairy story but Hans Christian Anderson would turn in his grave
- Season of the Witch - Part 1 (erotic content)In response to a challenge to write Lesbian erotic fiction the male author combines sexism, sapphic love, supernatural events, revenge and fetih clothing in this highly erotic short story.
- The Stranger's FieldSet in the medieval era this story of oppression and revenge with a supernatural element tells how the underdog can rise up against the oppressor. Prizewinning fiction from Greenteeth Multi Media
REVIEWS
Leonora (historic fiction) by Gina Pounds - Review
Comedy writing, verse, poetry, comic songs, cartoons, comic fiction, comic verse. If you are looking for a laugh and you can't find one here you are very hard to please.
Join our writers as they take you around the world in words and pictures. No typical travelogue this because we try wander away from the usual tourist destinations, to delve a little deeper into the nature of the place, locals you might travel to, investigate the culture, how communities developed and what has made things the way they are. Look for overlaps here with our history, food and music menus as we try to recreate a little of the atmosphere. Nobody has yet found a way to digitise smells but as soon as the technology is abailable we will bring you that aspect of the ambience too.
Health and Wellbeing
How to make healthy eating fun, exercise that is not a chore, lessons in how to chill, sensible drinking. Health and Wellbeing are one of the main concerns that cause stress in this increasingly crazy world. In this menu find articles, spoken word and video on how to cope with the stresses of modern life, how to make a personal refuge for yourself even in a crowded place and how to fend off the pressures of the aggressive consumer society we inhabit.
The Natural World
Anything to do with nature can find a place here, from exploring a cave complex to articles and video on wildlife. There are obvious overlaps here with travel, health and wellbeing and the environment menus but that is the nature of The Greenteeth Labyrinth. Just as a walk in the woods might lead one of our writers to record the habits of an animal colony or write on the breeding cycle of birds, so in the Labyrinth you never know where a link might lead you to.
Real Lives - the biography menu
Biographical writing on the lives of the famous and the unknown (who often have the more interesting stories to tell,) memoir, stories told in verse, in pictures with commentary, in any way because Greenteeth Labyrinth is about using the power and versatility of new media to communicate in new ways. Everybody has a story to tell and their own way of telling it. Cameraderie, shared hardship, life on the factory floor or in the field, triumph, tragedy, survival, if it is true life it belongs here and we will find the best way of presenting it.
THIS MENU is not live yet but find A Stroke Of Luck, Ian Thorpe's memoir of recovery from a massive brain haemorrhage available to read free online. Go to A Stroke Of Luck - Chapter 1
Past Perspectives: New Angles On History
History as it is taught in conventional schools and colleges is mostly wrong. Not slightly wrong, not just spun a bit to fit a political agenda but blatantly wrong. Worse, it is deliberately wrong. The Roman Empire, usually presented as the great civilising force in the western world, the enlightened society that dissed its enemies as Barbarians and Heathens was in many ways actually less civilised that the Bararians it conquered. The Celts of Norhern Europe, the Moors of North Africa and the Persians all had well organised societies and in many ways were ahead of Rome in technology and scholarship.
The American War Of Independence was not fought for religious freedom of in the first instance for freedom of any kind. The rebels were asking for seats in the British Parliament for the colonies, "no taxation without representation." The rebel leaders were British Gentleman Adventurers and many of the senior British Officers were supporters of the Stewart claim to the throne, regarding the Hanoverians as usurpers. Thus they were tacitly sympathetic to the rebellion. These are just two of the instances in which history needs to be viewed from a different perspective if a true picture is to be seen. There is much more in this menu.
A Quick Tour Of The Church of Saint Mary and All Saints, Whalley, Lancashire, UK
A quick tour of the parish church of St Mary and All Saints in Whalley gives us a glimpse of the history of this area.There has been a Christian church on this site since the seventh century and though the eariest parts of the current building are from the tenth century stones from the older church were used in the construction. Three ancient Saxon crosses that stand in the church grounds are also from the tenth century
From the core philosophies of the great religions to the ideas of modern existentialists, philosophy is regarded as dull, heavy and irrelevant. But philosophy is ideas and ideas are the most exciting things in the world. In the Greenteeth Labyrinth we try to bring you philosophy lite, wisdom without weight. From the origins of the Universe to the myseries of quantum physics, from the earliest forms of Goddess worship to the quasi - religious ideas of self help gurus, all is examined here. You will even find some articles in this menu showing up in the comedy pages too.The overall message of Philo and Sophia though can be summed up in the words of Hypatia of Alexandria, proto-feminist of the ancient world who said, "All formal and dogmatic religions are fallacious, to teach superstitions as truth is the most terrible thing. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
What happened to her for thinking like that? Enter the menu to find out.
Like philosophy, poetry is a type of literature easily shunned as boring. Often that dismissal is accurate, particularly in the case of modernists, whose self-indulgent navel gazing verse is deliberately made so obscure and complex it is doubtful even the poets themselves understand WTF they are banging on about. On the other hand there are maverick bands of poets, freal traditionalists, wandering the net attacking the unwary readers with their polysyllabic peregrenations through poetry's more arcane medieval forms. Bad traditional petry can be as much a turnoff as modern do-it-yourself psychology poems. At Greenteeth we publish the poets we think are fun, especially those who bring us their work in audio or video form. Poetry is about rhythm, pace and timing as much as language. Words can lie dead on a page. Let us bring them to life for you and maybe help you find a new form of entertainment to enjoy.
Famour artists introduced and their work examines, images of great paintings available to browse online. This new section is expanding rapidly, keep looking in.
Ian R Thorpe
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The poems of Ian R Thorpe:
Sorry if that R in my name loks a bit pretentious, I have to distinguish between myself, the short, British, non swimming poet and author and a certain Australian superathlete. Hover on title in the drop down list for a clue to what the poem is about.
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Audio Poetry Menu
Latest: Click on link to menu for text versions and on links below to go straight to audio.
[ Suzannas's Tits] ... [ Wishing ] ... [ For An American Girl ] ... [ Alien In My Bed ] ... [ Favourite Boy ] ...[ Late Nite Movie ] ... [ Casual Sex In New York ] ... [ Love Like Chains] ... [ A Pale Horse ]
[ Comic Verse ]
Love Poems Menu
The Science and Technology Menu
Science and Technology is not a collection of work lauding all things scientific but is somewhere you will find objective and independent writing on technologies including sustainable power generation, internet developments, IT hardware, transport technology, food production and all areas of research and development while articles on natural sciences will set out to challege orthodox thinking. If you are one of those people who is trying to establish science as a rival to religion you will not feel at home here but if you like to keep up with at the latest developments from a wide perspective while reasing about them in a style that does not attempt to blind readers with science you will be in your element.
Humanitas - Everything That makes Us Human
Who are we, where do we come from, what's it all about, is there any point to all that we do ? Should we give a damn?
There is a very nasty tasting mindset being bred in the academic world, and particularly in the fields of science and technology, that insidiously suggests all the qualities that make being human so wonderful are in fact weaknesses and should be resisted if not eliminated. "We should all try to live scientifically" one eminent scientist recently suggested as if there was anything about life that could even loosely be described as scientific. In the end the scientists and tech-heads, with their insane belief in reason, logic and evidence based knowledge are little different to religious fundamentalists in the way they cling desperately to their certainties while the rest of us blunder hopefully through life trying to make some sense of it all.
Sub Menus: [ People and Customs ] ... [ Who We Are ] ... [ Work and Play ]
Faith and Spirituality
Wander through the writing of followers of various faiths, belief systems and traditions and maybe feel inspired to explore your own spirituality. You will find no preaching here, while all are welcome to submit to us their point of view, christian, muslim, jewish, hindi, buddhist, pagan and all their variations any work that tries to suggest one faith has the right understanding of life, the universe and everything while all the others are wrong will be rejected.
LATEST POSTS: [ What A Pagan Believes ] ... [ The True Tale Of The Easter Bunny ] ... [ The Druid Path ] ...
A Quick Tour Of The Church of Saint Mary and All Saints, Whalley, Lancashire, UK
A quick tour of the parish church of St Mary and All Saints in Whalley gives us a glimpse of the history of this area.There has been a Christian church on this site since the seventh century and though the eariest parts of the current building are from the tenth century stones from the older church were used in the construction. Three ancient Saxon crosses that stand in the church grounds are also from the tenth century
'There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.'
from In Memoriam by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Daily Stirrer
The Contraversialist Blog that aims to bring you the most provocative and fearless opinion on the topics of the day. Daily Stirrer contributors write from the heart and shoot from the hip on all the topics that are making news. They will tackle business and politics, bureucracy, health society, science and technology. education, transport and any other issue where the media conspire with the money men to make sure the difficult questions are not being asked.
Daily Stirrer Home Page
OLDER LINKS ARCHIVES
Bog of Blogs
Links to our favourite Blogs around the web. If you can't find enough interesting content in our pages, the Bog of Blogs will give even the most avid readers enough to keep them happy for a long time. Humour, celebrity, sport, politics, entertainment, observation, relationships, nature, its all here.
Boggart Blog Central
Find selections from Boggart Blog, our flagship daly publication.
Boggart Network News: [ 1 ] ... [ 2 ] ... [ 3 ] ... [ 4 ] ... [ 5 ] ... [ Boggart Blog Central 6 ] ... [ Boggart Blog Central 7 ] ... [ Boggart Blog Central 8 ] ... [ Boggart Blog Central9 ] ... [ bogboggart10 ]
The Audio Menu
Music, Fiction, Poetry, hear them all when you explore the Labyrinth's audio menu. First up as we launch this new menu is Brother Bastion. Click the name to go to his page, read about the act, hear sample tracks and find out how to buy Brother bastion's music online.
This is being sorted out now as our video work is scattered all over the web. Here are a few videos to get the menu started. { Fingers - silly comic verse ] ... [ The Conservative Contender ] ... [ Them ] ... [ We Made Love ... [ Skin ]
We Made Love ] ... { For Money ] [ Them - A poem for the surveillance society]
One of the biggest worries to afflict people living in modern economically developed nations is the loss of privacy. CCTV, databases, surveillance technology and internet monitoring contribute to a feeling we are losing our freedom as individuals. This poem by by British poet Ian R Thorpe sums up the zeitgeist.
See video "Them" only
Picture Gallery
This menu is being populated with a few posts before we open a dedicated menu. First up is Gull In Flight at Robin Hood's Bay
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Young River photo accompanies a nature poem by Ian R Thorpe [ Poetry Menu ] ... [ Featured Writer ]
More typical of what we are doing (and more intersting perhaps are the photosets which will build into a tour of an area. We start these with Rievaulx Abbey [ 1 ] ... [ 2 ] ..., the spectacular ruin of a Cistercian monastery in North Yorkshire that did not survive being knocked abut a bit by King Henry VIII and his boys.
Meditations
A series of evocative photographs with commentary aimed at reminding people that is the hetic world of work, amition amd conspicuous consumption we must not forget how to simply be.
Sunsets, rivers, hills and valleys, gardens, seascapes, churches, temples and sacred spaces, architectural features, anything that might make people take time to appreciate their surroundings and just feel a sense of connectedness with their world can feature here. Intro and Menu for this section [ Have We Forgotten How To Be ]
Now go and find some peace and relaxation. What Do You Want To See?
Art Menu
Our newest addition. We Will be grpwing this menu rapidly.
The Kelpie
Education Menu
As the rhetoric of politicians, academics and leaders of the teching professions gets more lurid the product being turned out by the education system gets dumber. So what can be done? The thing politicians, teachers and academics hate more than anything is ridicule. So the Boggart Bloggers say "On With The Motley."
LATEST POSTS [ Lazy Pupils Exam Guide ] ... [ Duming Down Conspiracy ]
Food Menu
Greenteeth continues to expand, the addition of a food menu is our latest venture. This is in the very early stages of its gestation period at the moment but here are links to the first two items added.
[ Snacks: Egg and Onion Sandwich ] ... [ Hot and Tasty - Bolton Hot Pot ]
CATEGORY MENUS:
Some people prefer to search in categorized lists for the kind of content they like. Whether you like reading comment and opinion, current affairs reporting, humour and satire, fiction, poetry and verse or our many specialist menus such as food, travel, music, art and more you may find our categories menu is your preferred way of exploring the site.
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