all we want is nothing
In Australia recently, 7eleven are pushing a big campaign for their ‘sugarless’ slurpee, coining the term ‘zilched’ in reference to the sugar content in their product. Noticing yet another giant, gaudy advertisement for one, a friend of mine mused: ‘What’s in it if there’s no sugar?’. Fact is, there could be very little that this … Read more
Celebrating Australia
I don’t really get what ‘UnAustralian’ means. Lets face it, as the culture of our country – and all countries – continues to diversify, a ‘national identity’ is something that may well be becoming harder and harder to describe, to pinpoint. For some reason, I associate the word ‘UnAustralian’ most with former PM John … Read more
Where did it all go wrong?
I overheard a conversation the other day when I was at the gym: two young twenty-somethings, counting down the days until they’d be at the next music festival where they could take their shirts off and be huge, strut like peacocks. It kind of made me wonder what I was doing there: I use the … Read more
Dear Readers
Have a look at the menubar for an insightful new page or two that features letters, emails, correspondence, notes and other such impromptu literary delights, inspired by the diversity of all that we may encounter in this wonderful world of ours. Letters inspired by love, confusion, politeness, forewarning, hatred, insanity, complaint or praise, or just … Read more
Where have the months gone?
We can be proud of creating a lot of changes to the world we in which we live. With modern times, we’ve seen cds and mp3s, colour television and dvds, water filters, washing machines, unleaded fuel, laptop computers, the internet and so many more positive changes too numerous to mention (let’s not mention the bad … Read more
Dont lose focus on the light, in the dark
Published below, is a letter that was written to one of the editorial team of Canadian leftist/socialist/anarchist/ecologist magazine ‘adbusters’, which led to the inspiration for the piece previous to this blog entitled: ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’. Yes, things arent all roses and yes, we must keep the pressure on the ‘status quo’, but … Read more
absence makes the heart grow fonder
Dear followers. It may have come to your attention of late, that there has been some considerable gap(s) in my writing and publishing efforts. Let me take this opportunity to apologise for my lackings, as i am almost certain that many of you have been struggling for direction in life without my random musing and … Read more
Social networking, bandwagons, fads and child soldiers
I have little doubt that you, reading this, are aware of a man called Joseph Kony. If you in fact aren’t, perhaps you don’t use Facebook, or any other such social media? Let me explain: Joseph Kony is the now notorious leader of the Ugandan ‘Lord’s Resistance Army’ or ‘LRA’ who, it has come to light, is responsible … Read more
The forced dissolution of digitalism (part I)
We are going the way of disconnect – via the instantaneous, over-convenient, over-digital mores of modern life. Our ability to communicate on genuine levels, our desire and will to do so, is being depleted with every minute online, with every obsession with “reality” TV, and every moment lost in our smartphones, and tablets. We are … Read more
