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I’m done with isms — that’s capitalism, communism, ageism, sexism, heightism, fatism, faddism, post-Impressionism and Popism even. The list goes on. And I intend to be a free spirit. People think...

Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning

Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning as the Number One thing to worry about instead of corruption, which replaced the pandemic, which replaced the production and cost of petrol. Getting ol...

Love has tentacles like an octopus

Love has tentacles like an octopus. And suckers for catching prey. The saying that you should free love to make its way back to you is an acknowledgment that lost love is an animal in the wildern...

Is it nature or nurture?

Is it nature or nurture that makes me wanna love you? I don’t think that desire is purely constructed out of what you see other people flashing, that brings about a basic jealousy for material wea...

Junk shops are mind spaces

Junk shops are mind spaces it’s no wonder the world has gone mad for thrifting. If someone told you Venice was really sinking wouldn’t you head down to St Mark’s Basilica for a couple of old candl...

Texting while walking is a horrible reflection of the bigger picture

Texting while walking is a horrible reflection of the bigger picture. It’s another metaphor for life. To say life is like a double carriageway heading in opposing directions, is like asking, ‘but...

Falling in love on street corners

Falling in love on street corners is a thing, for some. I don’t know where else people fall in love, but I fell in love at a wedding. It was someone else’s wedding, and we were unrelated guests. ...

As Pumpkin says to Yolanda.

As Pumpkin says to Yolanda: be cool honey bunny. Not ‘be freezing’ okay? Winter arrives with all her charms. And I must say the way I’m feeling now, hell can freeze over for all I care. Making art...

The place is fit for re-habitation

My mission as an ambassador from planet D43 is to engage with the Slavers. So when Buck Rogers returns to this particular universe, in Ranger III (his tin foil propulsion), the place is fit for re...

Playtime is a joke to workaholics

Playtime is a joke to workaholics, just as work is a joke to playerholics. Choose your downfall according to your downtime. Personally I cannot eat and talk about work. I’m either eating — or w...

Fashions come and go but good art is great forever.

Fashions come and go but good art is great forever. It’s not seasonal. That’s a commercial for something that isn’t above commerce but should be. I don’t have to apologise for the fact that marke...

I’m not saying that just to be woke

Sex is no longer sexy. I’m not saying that just to be woke, or to show how above bodily functions I’ve risen, but to reflect the boredom everyone feels with the private aspect of the physical. Wha...

If it was my last hour on earth

If it was my last hour on earth, I’d probably spend it making a work of art. I can’t say for sure, because there would be family members to kiss goodbye, and dogs to feed. But at some stage, even...

Are the most honest pictures the ones that eat you up with desire?

Are the most honest pictures the ones that eat you up with desire? Or are they the ones that repulse you, with their frank depictions of the worst horrors on earth? If you say that the best pictu...

Ive never seen a UFO

I’ve never seen a UFO. But I’m so ready for one. It’s like being on the bad end of a dating service. I won’t mind if they’re green with one eye in the middle of their heads. I’m ready for a hook-u...