Fringe Weekly Blogs

Time to leverage opportunities

Time to leverage opportunities. By which I mean, time to plan no plan. I’m sorry to sound abstract about it, but a vacant head is a mind just waiting to be filled.  I dream I’m at an airport. As a...

Chuck out the trash

The time has come to chuck out the trash. It’s like a heart transplant. Bad stuff out — good stuff in. The trouble has always been what to keep. I remember seeing Oprah’s show on decluttering w...

We don’t all live in a yellow submarine

Sadly, we don’t all live in a yellow submarine. It didn’t come as a huge shock when someone pointed it out, because life has this bad habit of letting one down. What it means, really, is that ther...

So we’ve swung into Spring

So we’ve swung into Spring with this expected combination of hot and cold, you could say schizophrenic weather but that’s not exactly what schizo means.  But let’s look at combos that slowly dri...

Dreamt I was flying

Dreamt I was flying which is crazy because I usually dream I’m falling. Now I’m trying to figure out if there’s some significance in the fact that I made a concerted effort to defy gravity, which ...

I’m done with isms

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...