when it comes to fluidity is it limited to gender can you identify as black if you appear to be white can you identify as poor if you appear to be rich can you identify as vegetable if you appear to be human i just want to know because if i can identify as a … Continue reading i don’t know if i’m allowed to ask this question…
Author: abigfatcanofworms
Imagine a full-time Mum in her early forties. Now that both her kids have started school, her days are freer. But housework is still a major component and to alleviate the boredom she listens to things online. At first it was audio books from librivox.org – a website of books freely available in the public domain, read by volunteers. An amazing resource. But things have changed...
Spelling
Our daughter decided she wanted to build a berm in our backyard to ride her bike over. I wondered how it was spelled and realized that the "er" sound in berm could take four of the five vowels. This is crazy, right? So I found myself making a few lists of rhyming words that are … Continue reading Spelling
Living in 2020
We started with fires and then muddy mires, then a lockdown of worldwide trade Then Scomo's spat with China, well that's nothing minor when your economy needs First Aid. And now... what the blazes? So many malaises! It's that incorrigible school house pot. Most of the nation in enforced isolation but it seems the … Continue reading Living in 2020
A Circular Discussion that Got me Confused…
In the paper I learn that the PM wants to discourage Arts degrees. It’s an old reason. He says they don’t lead to jobs. So Arts degrees are getting more expensive if he has his way. I did an arts degree and he’s right. No job was waiting, waving its arms at me. But I … Continue reading A Circular Discussion that Got me Confused…
Inspired by They Might Be Giants
They call me Dr 'Ug I'm not a real Doctor but I am a real Drug I am an actual Drug. Probably not appropriate during COVID but... when caffeine fails, you need a fall-back right?
A poem of grief…
Labor, you losers, you're losing your lovers. You're losing the labourers of Labor-history fame. You're losing the respect of the principled loyalists and you're losing every election in every game. Your branch-stacking members are making a bonfire stacking the branches to get air in the flames. Your gas-guzzling cronies are adding some liquid to … Continue reading A poem of grief…
The Very Round Table
My brother in law shared a podcast by Sam Harris (link) about the current fragile state of the USA. It is very logical and dispassionate. I haven't finished it yet. But it's brave too - for a white man (reportedly the most privileged sector of the human species) to attack these issues. He sidles into … Continue reading The Very Round Table
I Love Winter
Under this aluminium sky the day feels blank as a factory wall. The chickens fluff fatly keeping busy in the sunless dirt. The washing hangs limp and two dimensional in front of the enthusiastic budding of the Magnolia. It is winter with its grumpier face on. Pretty tame, you have to say, compared to … Continue reading I Love Winter
Open Letter II
Mr Morrison, the one thing that has salvaged my opinion of you and your gas-loving cronies is that you DIDN'T copy America in your approach to COVID19. At last I saw a man who was more than just a puppet to the big guys (Trump, coal, oil & gas). And now, I read on the … Continue reading Open Letter II
The Cold War
If I have a gun, it is safer for you to have a gun. If you have a gun, and you call the cops for help, it is safer for the cops to have guns. If the cops have guns, and feel scared of people with guns it gets MAD out there. Dear America, … Continue reading The Cold War
