The Ink Shot archive
From 7 May 2012 until 7 December 2021 The Ink Shot was the blog of Marcus Baumgart, an itinerant café writer, designer of buildings, animal-lover and day-by-day battling creative. This blog celebrates the practice of writing in cafés, writing fiction and non-fiction and being creative in general.
Marcus struggles to motivate without the happy white noise of lively conversation and hissing espresso machines.
Jim Thompson’s House in Bangkok
I like a mystery and in 1967, American Thai silk entrepreneur and architect Jim Thompson, resident of this fine house in Bangkok, went for a walk in a Malaysian jungle and was never seen again. And they looked pretty thoroughly too. I am in Bangkok recharging my batteries for a couple of weeks and toured the house yesterday. Nice way to live in the tropics, in an eclectic assembly of several 200 year old houses arranged into a comfortable connected series of pavilions. Got me thinking about my writer’s retreat plans.
The entry pavilion
Baby Rocket is one year old today!
My violent little baby who goes off like a rocket is one year old today, on Remembrance Day. Special treat for Baby Rocket tonight. Here he is with his little buddy, Lucy Goosey. It’s a birthday!
Babies living in not quite perfect harmony
What I am reading right now
This is a lovely piece of extended dragon-filled fantasy. I am actually enjoying it quite a lot.
