Hanging around
with people I'm not
leaving with
is not my style.
Dingo the Dissident
Monday 31 January 2011
Sunday 30 January 2011
Saturday 29 January 2011
Friday 28 January 2011
A History Lesson
The first Roman Empire
had 'bread and circuses'.
The second R.E.
had McDonald's and the movies.
Both had the largest standing
extra-territorial armies
ever known, and both collapsed
from the unsustainable luxury
of the rich.
had 'bread and circuses'.
The second R.E.
had McDonald's and the movies.
Both had the largest standing
extra-territorial armies
ever known, and both collapsed
from the unsustainable luxury
of the rich.
Thursday 27 January 2011
Wednesday 26 January 2011
The Dao of Change
'We have come to the point where the only possibility for change is to bring about a "movement" not to bring anything about.'
- Masanobu Fukuoka: The One-Straw Revolution
- Masanobu Fukuoka: The One-Straw Revolution
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Monday 24 January 2011
Today at Toulouse Central Station
While a man without socks
shouted continually
and peripatetically into
a dead cell-phone,
I read a newspaper headline:
'Half of the internet-users of France
download music and movies
illegally'. And so the masses
come to terms with technology.
shouted continually
and peripatetically into
a dead cell-phone,
I read a newspaper headline:
'Half of the internet-users of France
download music and movies
illegally'. And so the masses
come to terms with technology.
Sunday 23 January 2011
The Prepuce-Collector
With the skyscrapers of foreskins
which He has been lumbered with since the
ill-considered pact with Abraham,
God has condemned himself,
worked His divine fingers to the bone,
making hundreds of thousands
- indeed millions - of lampshades, day in day out,
time beyond mind, to mitigate
the blinding illumination
of all the believers
in His celestial and cerebral Kingdom.
which He has been lumbered with since the
ill-considered pact with Abraham,
God has condemned himself,
worked His divine fingers to the bone,
making hundreds of thousands
- indeed millions - of lampshades, day in day out,
time beyond mind, to mitigate
the blinding illumination
of all the believers
in His celestial and cerebral Kingdom.
Saturday 22 January 2011
Around my (future) grave
where the snowdrops bloom today
I imagine many memorials -
the Tomb of the Unknown Battery Hen
the Tomb of the Unknown Fornicator
the Tomb of the Unknown Dissident
the Tomb of the Unknown Masturbator
the Tomb of the Unknown Drug-addict
the Tomb of the Unknown Tyre-Inflator
the Tomb of the Unknown Cock-cheese Eater
the Tomb of the Unknown Mitigator
the Tomb of the Unknown Dancing Bear
the Tomb of the Unknown Hesitater
the Tomb of the Unknown Wiped-out Species
the Tomb of the Unknown Perpetrator...
but I'm still alive and not yet due to occupy
the Tomb of the Unknown Dissipator.
I imagine many memorials -
the Tomb of the Unknown Battery Hen
the Tomb of the Unknown Fornicator
the Tomb of the Unknown Dissident
the Tomb of the Unknown Masturbator
the Tomb of the Unknown Drug-addict
the Tomb of the Unknown Tyre-Inflator
the Tomb of the Unknown Cock-cheese Eater
the Tomb of the Unknown Mitigator
the Tomb of the Unknown Dancing Bear
the Tomb of the Unknown Hesitater
the Tomb of the Unknown Wiped-out Species
the Tomb of the Unknown Perpetrator...
but I'm still alive and not yet due to occupy
the Tomb of the Unknown Dissipator.
Friday 21 January 2011
Thursday 20 January 2011
In our reductive and grasping culture
we have abolished praise.
We offer mere celebrity instead -
and mealy-mouthed, ungenerous
obits to the dead.
We offer mere celebrity instead -
and mealy-mouthed, ungenerous
obits to the dead.
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Monday 17 January 2011
Jesus was a simpleton
Mohamed was a crook.
Jesus got fisted.
Mohamed got twisted.
Religions of the Book!
Jesus got fisted.
Mohamed got twisted.
Religions of the Book!
Sunday 16 January 2011
Saturday 15 January 2011
Friday 14 January 2011
Thursday 13 January 2011
The last thing that schools and universities will do
is to tell us how to live good lives.
So what is the point of education ?
To break us in like helpless horses;
to make us literate consumers
and taxpayers, and members of
variously armed forces.
So what is the point of education ?
To break us in like helpless horses;
to make us literate consumers
and taxpayers, and members of
variously armed forces.
Wednesday 12 January 2011
If 'multi-tasking' were possible
we would be able to think two thoughts at once.
Most of us, however, have difficulty
thinking two thoughts in ten minutes.
Most of us, however, have difficulty
thinking two thoughts in ten minutes.
Tuesday 11 January 2011
The Dao of Everything
Do as little as possible
unobstrusively
for unintended consequences
are inevitable.
unobstrusively
for unintended consequences
are inevitable.
Monday 10 January 2011
Sunday 9 January 2011
Saturday 8 January 2011
Friday 7 January 2011
Thursday 6 January 2011
Wednesday 5 January 2011
Memetic
If we assume that new words describe new things, events, feelings,
boredom did not emerge in modern Europe until the late 18th century,
and the meme or notion of normality slightly later.
This was the beginning of the 'Industrial Revolution',
when time and people were routinely mechanised
and in the slowly-rising, filthy tide of our technology
we began and not by stealth
to turn ourselves into standardised machines for the production
and consumption of products and boredom and wealth.
boredom did not emerge in modern Europe until the late 18th century,
and the meme or notion of normality slightly later.
This was the beginning of the 'Industrial Revolution',
when time and people were routinely mechanised
and in the slowly-rising, filthy tide of our technology
we began and not by stealth
to turn ourselves into standardised machines for the production
and consumption of products and boredom and wealth.
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Dodgy statistic
A hundred years ago
the most popular first name
(until recently called Christian name)
was - in England - John.
Now it is Mohamed.
Behold! the dawn
new-circumcised
with ruddy fingers
creeps o'er the lawn.
(100 years ago the number of Johns in a relatively narrow pool of names might have numbered millions. Today the number of Mohameds in a hugely-enlarged pool of names - in a much greater population - can be numbered only in tens of thousands.)
the most popular first name
(until recently called Christian name)
was - in England - John.
Now it is Mohamed.
Behold! the dawn
new-circumcised
with ruddy fingers
creeps o'er the lawn.
(100 years ago the number of Johns in a relatively narrow pool of names might have numbered millions. Today the number of Mohameds in a hugely-enlarged pool of names - in a much greater population - can be numbered only in tens of thousands.)
Monday 3 January 2011
In 'science'
it is difficult
(though not impossible)
to be a fraud.
In the arts and
phoney
'social sciences'
it is difficult
not to be
a bawd.
(though not impossible)
to be a fraud.
In the arts and
phoney
'social sciences'
it is difficult
not to be
a bawd.
Sunday 2 January 2011
Saturday 1 January 2011
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