Fringe Weekly Blogs

Good neighbours make good walls

Good neighbours make good walls. You have to hand it to your pals next door if they build a wall that can withstand intruders. Someone jumped our common wall in the middle of the night and he had a...

The Mona Lisa is really just a tired

The Mona Lisa is really just a tired old brand that refuses to die. And its creator, Da Vinci, was really the biggest pop artist that ever lived. Leonardo painted celebrities and pandered to the ri...

Vampires are shitty and two-faced.

Vampires are shitty and two-faced. There’s something about their addiction to blood that makes them hateful. I guess they have no choice in the way they survive. But they’re conniving and desperate...

Wanna identify your stalker?

Wanna identify your stalker? Any metric-check can give you a profile analyser, so you can see the hectic people hiding on your social media. Can you imagine paying good money for such a thing, only...

In a world of screens be a finger.

In a world of screens be a finger. In the 21st-Century the marketing industry is swamped with the selling of screens — like sun screen, window screens, smart TVs and the dreaded phone that rules yo...

Will AI drive people mad?

Will AI drive people mad? I took a chance and asked Meta this astounding question. And it came up with an equally astonishing answer.“Yep,” the app told me, “emerging anecdotal evidence suggests th...

After New Year it’s back to the rat race.

After New Year it’s back to the rat race. But what exactly is a rat race? It makes one think of little grey vermin scuttling around in a cardboard box, while terrible humans eagerly observe which o...

ADHD and ADT make uncomfortable bedfellows

ADHD and ADT make uncomfortable bedfellows. I had to look up what the acronyms stand for, and ADT was the biggest surprise. Of course the first is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. But ADT ...

The last day of school

The last day of school was always a crisis for me. The rest of the school seemed to be on top of the world. And while the kleptomaniacs took the opportunity to stock up on stationery, I hovered in ...

I can’t eat ice cream.

I can’t eat ice cream. The brain freeze gets me every time. It gets into my ears, my eyes blur and I start to panic and feel faint.I looked it up and the culprit is actually the roof of the mouth…!...

The biggest mistakes are really

The biggest mistakes are really the smallest. Like when you tell a white lie and you get found out. Like when you promise a friend you won’t make a fuss on their birthday, when you already know the...

Dirt is a catalyst for change.

Dirt is a catalyst for change. If there’s one thing we learned from the mayoral cleanup, it’s that the shocking state of the city keeps a whole lot of people employed, who cruise on the promise of ...

God bless chai seeds.

God bless chai seeds. They make boring drinks crunchy and clean out your arteries. And that’s it for those Mexican herbs. I can’t think what else they can do besides feed birds — birds with clean a...

The image of the century is apparently

The image of the century is apparently a picture of thousands of fans worshipping Harry Styles, in a packed stadium, while staring lovingly into their phones. It’s mind-boggling, and shows how crow...

Love is the feeling

FringeFringe of sharing pretty much anything with someone you need in your life. Last month on 6 October Instagram turned 15 years old, and I had a feeling of terrible nostalgia for the early days ...