Morgan BellNewcastle Writers Group
May 18th 2011 13:16
What have I been up to lately?
Well I joined a local creative writing group called Newcastle Writers Group, and I feel all the better for it.
I will give a little shout-out to my co-groupie Allyson Seaborn and her little fire-cracker of a blog Eat Your Heart Out Martha Stewart. If you like domestic depravity and self deprecating humour you will sure find a tale or two to tickle your fancy.
Check it out. Subscribe. Comment.
You all know the drill.
Anyway she reminded me that I have been neglecting my own little blog.
Here I'll play Soundgarden word association, and you can listen to some tunes.
So . . .
Eat your heart out. Bleed your heart out. There's no more rides for free. I shot my love today. Would you cry for me. Just an anchor on my heart. Dies in shyness. Light a cigarette before the execution.
Chris Cornell, still the best writer I know.
I have always wondered where that expression comes from: "eat your heart out". A quick consultation of the trusty old wiki tells us what it means:
I found this explanation of the origins of the expression on Carly Googles:
And ending on a note of drag I do believe this is a perfectly rounded post.
From the queer glossary:
Ladies and gentlemen, she's back
Well I joined a local creative writing group called Newcastle Writers Group, and I feel all the better for it.
I will give a little shout-out to my co-groupie Allyson Seaborn and her little fire-cracker of a blog Eat Your Heart Out Martha Stewart. If you like domestic depravity and self deprecating humour you will sure find a tale or two to tickle your fancy.
Check it out. Subscribe. Comment.
You all know the drill.
Anyway she reminded me that I have been neglecting my own little blog.
Eat Your Heart Out
Here I'll play Soundgarden word association, and you can listen to some tunes.
So . . .
Eat your heart out. Bleed your heart out. There's no more rides for free. I shot my love today. Would you cry for me. Just an anchor on my heart. Dies in shyness. Light a cigarette before the execution.
Chris Cornell, still the best writer I know.
I have always wondered where that expression comes from: "eat your heart out". A quick consultation of the trusty old wiki tells us what it means:
Verb
to eat one's heart out
(idiomatic) To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy or longing, to grieve
.to eat one's heart out
(idiomatic) To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy or longing, to grieve
I found this explanation of the origins of the expression on Carly Googles:
The ancients believed that sorrow and envy silently "ate away" at the heart, "each sigh draining blood from the organ." In Henry VI, Shakespeare wrote:
Might liquid tears, of heart-offending groans,
Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs
We still say someone who is grieving is "broken-hearted."
By the beginning of the 20th century, "to eat your heart out" meant to pine, but you can yell it out as a cry of triumph if you give someone else a reason to envy you, like if you make a better ballgown as a drag queen than he ever did designing for a real lady (or a Cher).
Might liquid tears, of heart-offending groans,
Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,
I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,
Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs
We still say someone who is grieving is "broken-hearted."
By the beginning of the 20th century, "to eat your heart out" meant to pine, but you can yell it out as a cry of triumph if you give someone else a reason to envy you, like if you make a better ballgown as a drag queen than he ever did designing for a real lady (or a Cher).
And ending on a note of drag I do believe this is a perfectly rounded post.
From the queer glossary:
Drag: Originally used in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to mean DRessed As Girl (or Dress Resembling A Girl) referring to male actors who played female roles.
Ladies and gentlemen, she's back
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