Fringe Weekly Blogs

A relic of an age gone by

Going to the ATM is like going to a Drive-In movie. It’s like a relic of an age gone by  I really don’t remember when last I stood in a queue, and then popped my banking card into a machine. What ...

New world order

  Cryptocurrency is one of those 21st Century words, like streaming and download, that makes you think of a new world order in which things are available that we couldn't get before.  Then ...

Online love is not the same as offline love

Online love is not the same as offline love. The first movie to show some sort of connectivity was War Games in 1983. So it turns out that culturally we were more concerned with war as an online a...

Edible art

If I could eat paint I would. I reckon there's a place in the market for completely edible paintings. But that leaves the terrain wide open to questions of whether people would prefer to eat artwo...

All Along the Watchtower

When Jimi Hendrix recorded All Along the Watchtower, Bod Dylan said he heard new things he adopted for the future. When Dylan composed it he had taken the first step out of the void, but Jimi went...

AI chronicles

Whatever artificial intelligence delivers has a positive-negative connotation. And it's up to you to find the positive in the negative and the negative in the positive, or you risk being labeled t...

Robots

  Fast forward a couple of decades and going to the shops or the bank will be much more fun than now. Sophia or Ameca robots will ask you what you want. Right at the door. Say something like, I've ...

While wars are raging

While wars are raging it's good to remember the saying that guns should be melted down to make ploughs. Or sensitive works of art that commemorate the deaths of those who died. I first heard the s...

A week from hell

If I say I've just had the week from hell, you'd imagine my life's been a total mess. Not so. You can have a week from hell, and have everything just right. For others, a week from hell means fire...

Going to the doctor is like going to Disneyworld

Going to the doctor is like going to Disneyworld. Even before you get there you know it’s going to be expensive and very old school. Those medical charts of the inside of the body are great though...

Drumsticks

Lollipops are not the same as chicken drumsticks. I’m not just talking about the difference between sugar and animal tissue. In fact, if you care to know, meat has no sugar content. And true love...

Paint your wagon

art + energy = artergy. That’s a completely made up word that has some vaguely relevant ring to it. I enjoy it because it kind of  includes artery, and something of strategy. It’s hard to imagine...

Smoking Virgins

When I grew up there wasn’t such a thing as a shopping mall. Ok, so there were covered centres where shops were circled around an escalator, but you didn’t hang out there. You did your shopping q...

Art of kissing

The art of kissing is multifaceted. The sentence sets me off with its reference to corny mainstream magazine culture where you have guides to everyday problems like losing weight or building muscl...

Suger Diversions

It was only when I got to America that I discovered that cotton candy is what we call candy floss. Honestly, until that moment I thought that anything flossy was something stringy that cleans your...