Fringe Weekly Blogs
Wish I could just Shazam random people and find out who they are, and what they are like. Apparently the great migration is going to materialise when your stupid little phone will have an extreme a...
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We are all looking for ourselves. I don’t say that we are lost but the signs on the highway tell us our destination, but not our current position. On the highway there’s a billboard for some debt c...
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When the aliens make contact I’ll be rooting for humanity, and not the other side. One hopes it won’t be an either/or situation, but if it is I want to embrace the change, without giving up on my l...
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If dentists worked at public pools they would not be lifesavers. Dentists have the uncanny ability to inflict pain while casually talking about the rugby scores. Meanwhile, very few dentists’ room...
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Energy is this mega commodity that is sold to us like cheap candy. It absolutely is, when we buy sugar-laced vitamins that promise us a better day. I’m so tired of buying energy. I buy it for the l...
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Old men in the steam room at the gym say the same things about business every day. These days I go there just to see if the prime rate has helped any of them lose weight; but for men over a certai...
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As I drove through a cop stop yesterday, I had the same feeling I had in school class. I hadn’t done anything wrong, and all my paperwork was in order. Yet I still felt that I may get caught out. G...
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Drove into town for supplies, and by that I mean some part of an old machine that doesn’t get manufactured anymore. And an old book that’s out of print. Ancient things that give away their secrets...
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You have to admire vegans for their pure determination. Giving up cheese on your pizza may seem like a small sacrifice, but committing to a war of bargaining with every waiter takes guts. Waiters ...
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The beautiful truth about art lies in its sacrifice — how it tries to make our little lives a little bigger, while dreaming of conquering the universe. If I’ve devoted my life to anything, it’s be...
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There are blossoms on the trees. And while we live in hope, there are gardeners who tell us that early blossoms mean a cold snap or two before summer. The anatomy of the city is like the anatomy...
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Are we there yet? This was the kids’ vacation mantra, which kind of morphed into the suggestive adult saying , ‘Are we having fun yet?’ And really, that means ‘No.’ The actual song by Fatboy Sli...
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The nights I’ve spent trying to get to sleep, and the mornings I’ve spent trying to wake up, seem to cancel each other out. Only they don’t. There’s a chunk of memory missing from my brain, some...
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If you want to breathe, then start by giving some air to others.
Took the kids to the zoo where I realised that my eyes have gone south. Couldn’t really see the leopard’s spots. It wasn’t a metaphor for anything, the animal’s coat was just a little hazy. The...
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