Toby Austin Gooley
Profile
I have a tendency to put leaves behind my ears when I get drunk. I like it when people ruffle my hair, so I assume other people do too- but maybe they don’t. I was born by cesaerian and until I was eight I thought this was my star sign.
I’m a postgrad Marine Biology student, who’s starting to think it’s no longer what he wants to do with his life. But saying that sounds a bit whiny. One day, one day, I will move to Melbourne. I liked it when I went there last.
Groups
Toby Austin Gooley is a member of All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Art And Text, Candid Photography, Challenge Café, DaDa Land, Dilapidated Buildings, Doodle Do, Drawn to Cotton- Art on T-shirts, Fabulous Ts, Flash Fiction, Raw Art, Two Word Challenge, WMG and Writing Workshop.
Journal Entries
Toby Is Going to Europe
Posted 2 months ago, 5 comments so far.
The Gay of the Triffids
Posted 2 months ago, 4 comments so far.
Murmansk and my Spider Wife
Posted 8 months ago, 1 comment so far.
Toby's adventures inside his own head (fever dream)
Posted 9 months ago, 1 comment so far.
Dream from a couch after a party
Posted 9 months ago, 1 comment so far.
Dance, monkey, Dance.
Posted 11 months ago, 2 comments so far.
The Ziggurat
Posted 11 months ago.
Stormwater Temple
Posted 12 months ago, 3 comments so far.
Architectural dreams
Posted about 1 year ago.
Toby has just worked out you have to hit 'reply' for people to notice you've replied
Posted about 1 year ago, 1 comment so far.
Art
Clothing
Writing
God and Thunder
...a combination that always works well. The Moazzen starts singing the same moment the storm hits. I am on a bridge at the time, sitting on the lintel. The people of Kuala Lumpur, sensing the chan…
Reactions to various stimuli
That part of my brain that filters sensory stimuli – the one that allows you to feel bored – is offline. It is a most pleasant sensation. I have been sitting in the garden for quite some t…
Poodle
I’ve always been a little afraid of dogs. Not phobic, just wary. Hackles up when they come towards me and such. And not to say I can’t enjoy the company of a dog, it’s just a first-i…
Cast of Thousands
Local History: It’s like one of those special episodes of a cartoon. The ones with familiar characters recast; Daria in a period drama, Marge Simpson in the Garden of Eden. For the woman who …
The Hanged Man
I am standing in the rain, but am too enthralled to move. The man on the other side of the glass bites his lip, shakes his head, and crosses out the letter ‘E’. He clutches his knees and r…
Newly Minted
My mother, not desiring further childeren, always made me plant the parsley. She’d read in a library book that the planting of parsley was a fertility ritual, and, fearing the Abundant Forces of…
