Fringe Weekly Blogs

Dirty money don't touch

Compassion arises when the diamond of the mind rests in the flower of the heart. This beautiful Buddhist saying is obviously about the way we have to reconcile our two parts. The thinking head and...

Diamonds aren't forever

Your eyes don’t see what’s there. Your eyes only see what they want to see. That’s the great thing about highly subjective images: they talk so many different languages. It’s something corporate co...

World of worms

I’m not saying the art world is a worm farm. But perhaps I am. Perhaps it does live off its own waste. I don’t have a problem with that. A wormhole, however, is something vastly different. It can b...

Moving on them

Otherwise please exhaust me with your unfinished business.  Generally that’s what the act of living amounts to: unfinished business. And that’s how we like it. Primarily because the opposite means ...

Pass the Peas

Remember when the word roast didn’t mean comedians saying terrible things about each other? I spent so much time over the holidays thinking about the good old days, I forgot about the here and now....

Bad machines wrong moves

I’ve started to talk to my laptop. I forgot I wasn’t on a zoom call. I said something like, ‘why did you do that?’ As though I was scolding a dog. And then I said, ‘ok I’m sorry.’   I apologised to...

Comfortably Numb

We are all just mammals and vertebrates. We didn’t exactly evolve from angels, we just happen to be their poor relations, or physical manifestations. So we are a special case. That’s you and me liv...

Goodbye Me You

Saying goodbye is as natural as going to the toilet. Like a tadpole whose body eventually sucks in its own tail, we absorb our loss and make the most of it. We are after all made of pure protein. I...

Sleep Escape

Hit the snooze button and wake up next year. Right now, that’s how everyone wants it. The saying ‘get out of town’ is one of total disbelief. It’s strange that hitting the snooze button, and gettin...

Vape Sh*t

You have to respect vape smokers. They are some of the most selfless people on earth. Let’s face it, they gave up perfectly satisfying smoking habits for something dodgy, something that’s more like...

Eat my Art

To cut down a tree is not a crime, just a sin. It’s a crime if it hits your neighbour’s house. The hole it leaves can be filled, but there will always be a part of you that says, ‘something grew he...

When love dies

A broken appliance is like a broken heart. Washing machine dies = love dies. Life goes on but it will never be the same. I passed the place where all appliances go to rot. On the side of the highwa...

City Kitsch

There’s a fire in my heart. It burns with passion for adventure. I rev up my bike and go where the road takes me. Usually to my mother’s place. Well, I know that’s not exactly a searing drama, but…...

Cash Strapped

Xmas wreaths that pop up in October are a bit like Billy Porter in a dress. Quaint, but we’ve seen it all before. Planning a party when the world is such a mess seems selfish. But people are always...

I'm not the nude guy

Sex is not overrated, because it’s just as necessary as going to the loo. Which means it’s good for one’s health, and every now and then it comes out wrong.  I have forgiven myself for not making a...