brett fish anderson : Brett Fish

The Ice King, the Energiser Bunny and some fingers on a stick.

Imagine waking up one morning and going online and seeing a semi-naked-sprawled-out-on-the-bed-alongside-your-Improv-friend picture of yourself circling the internet... Cause for panic, right? You'd think so, unless the picture was this one: Which i woke up to a week or so ago and was like 'Holy Crapamole, what's my wife going to think?' Fortunately tbV was awake and laughing at it in the other room and so we just jumped on the banned wagon and helped spread [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-20T09:21:53+02:00May 20th, 2015|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas, fun, silly things|0 Comments

Bob responds

About two weeks ago i published an email from a friend of mine who is white, male, South African and presently living in the UK who had some thoughts, feelings, questions and frustrations about life in South Africa and some of the conversations we'd been having on here. i shared his email under the guise of 'Bob' and invited a few of my friends to respond, all of which you can catch up with over [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-18T11:20:33+02:00May 18th, 2015|challenging thorts, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|8 Comments

Tandem Post: Tonight you’re mine, completely

i am loving being a part of this Tandem Blogging series with 8 other very creative and very different individuals. There is the dual satisfaction of having a very focused piece to write on a topic i didn't choose [which is incredible for creativity] and then also the thrill of bouncing from post to post once we've released them, to see how differently each writer interpreted the title each week. Last week was my favourite [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-13T19:00:11+02:00May 13th, 2015|poems and other creativity, silly things, tandem blog post, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Some thoughts from Spaghetti conversations [with Daniel van Zuydam

Daniel was another of the guests from Friday's dinner and deep dive into Race, Boundary and Location conversation that i wrote about over here, and he shares some of his thoughts from the evening: We need to learn to listen to one another. Such a simple concept, "I stop talking, you talk", but very hard to execute. On Friday, Brett invited me to a dinner with a number of other peeps from different ages, colour, [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-13T08:00:31+02:00May 13th, 2015|change the world, pain and Hope, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

‘i, church’ – Searching for the Pulse of the Church

This year, the book i wrote, 'i, church' was published and you can read more about that over here. But being Sunday where many people around the world will be using that somewhat confusing statement of 'going to church' i thought it would be a good idea to post an extract from my book, particularly one aimed at all of the people who think church may be dying or already dead. SEARCHING FOR THE PULSE [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-10T08:16:37+02:00May 10th, 2015|activities, church, God stuff, inspire-ations|0 Comments

‘i, church’ – Let’s hear from from Steve Graybill

My good friend Steve Graybill from Americaland, who has written for my blog before both on his strength weakness [which he identified, ironically enough, as a thirst for knowledge] and also on Sex in Marriage recently bought a copy of my book, 'i, church' on Amazon. He had some questions and thoughts which he shared with me via email and i asked him if he would write them into a post so that we could get more people [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-06T07:51:12+02:00May 6th, 2015|bible things, challenging thorts, God stuff, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Just the Impromp2 of us… [with Megan Furniss]… we can make it if we try…

i met Megan Choritz, wow, 17 years ago? As you can see, it started out quite daunting - the person who brought Improv to Cape Town in the form of TheatreSports, now Improguise, Cape Town's longest running show [and best kept secret somehow]. But pretty soon i had gained confidence and the tables had been turned... Although some might not use 'daunted' in quite the same way, but i'm telling you, behind those fingers-in-ears is [...]

By brettfish|2015-05-05T10:02:38+02:00May 5th, 2015|activities, friends and enemas, humour'ish, silly things|0 Comments

100 Highlight moments from my life.

i have lived [and continue to live] a full life… The other day i posted about how my wife organised Black Widow and Hulk costumes so that we could watch the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie dressed up. i also returned home from my trip to Durban to find that she had discovered an old stack of photos from my life with some really crazy hairstyles and some crazier life moments documented right there [...]

By brettfish|2015-04-26T19:26:48+02:00April 26th, 2015|activities, and other animals., fun, humour'ish, life|0 Comments

‘i, church’ – gather round for conversations about church

For those of you who have been following the book launch tour we have now had four different launches: one at Vovo Telo and one at the Warehouse in Cape Town, one out Stellenbosch way and recently another in Durban. What i have discovered along the way is that my favourite part at every single launch was the Q & A time we scheduled in the middle of it. Opportunities for people [...]

By brettfish|2015-04-24T15:26:22+02:00April 24th, 2015|activities, things to wrestle with|2 Comments

Tandem Post: Revelations at Dawn

It had been another sleepless night for Michael, for the most part. Oh sure, there had been moments when he had drifted in and out of slumber, but the beasts awaiting him there had not made life any easier. Taunting him mercilessly with screeched out reminders of his shortcomings, spewed out revelations of the secret things only he knew about. The things no one else must ever know. Ever. Because Michael was a man of [...]

By brettfish|2015-04-15T14:00:00+02:00April 15th, 2015|poems and other creativity, tandem blog post, thorts of other people|0 Comments