My last post has caused deep offence to the people that most deserve it. The rubbery jaws of toy poodles descend upon me from academes in Sydney to Toronto with much growling and slathering – I am obviously a fool to not have caught the genius of this pre-ordained movement to be. I dared to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Ranting'
An Essay on ye Olde Aesthetik
April 15th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Ranting
PART ONE. I just went off for a quick toilet break and by the time I got back some nong had announced a ‘New Aesthetic’. Actually the first inkling was some whining from the Hauntology crew that somebody had dared to be excited about something other than 1970′s English shopping centres and Thunderbirds. Which of [...]
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The Future of the Future
April 6th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Ranting
Time’s Harry McCracken does a worthy compilation of Futuristic prediction videos. He goes beyond the usual tittering by including both Future Past and Future Current and calling out the overall pointlessness of the exercise. As he says, imagining is not imagineering in the Disney sense and these dreams are rhetorical to the progress of engineering [...]
Spontaneous declare joy of HuaWei Phone!
March 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Ranting
Greetings truethinking blog readers! As a concerned Australian Citizen Blogger and NOT ASTROTURF I denounce the slur against the peaceful People’s Republic Of China and a true friend of Australian People! The wrongthinking and meddlesome intelligence services of the current regime are wrong to paint a portrait of the PRC as a threat to Australian [...]
Dear Esther.
February 24th, 2012 · 5 Comments · Ranting, The name is now H.H.
Dear Esther. I have been holding down my W key for quite some time, drifting over this barren landscape of chickweed. “Look”, wrote Ivor Cutler, “some chickweed”. “Look”, he also wrote, “some more chickweed”. One day I pray I will not have to hold this W key with such passion. Dear Esther. Wish I had [...]
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Secrets of the 1%
January 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Ranting
I’m sorry I’m blogging so much. University break. It’ll stop soon. Frickin’ LinkedIn. You had enough? It’s like a sad FaceBook for middle managers. Everybody links in and then avoid each other not wanting to seem too eager – at least on FaceBook you can try get laid. The worst thing is the FIVE BULLSHIT [...]
2012 What a Cracker!
January 1st, 2012 · 4 Comments · Ranting
It doesn’t get any better than this! You look back over 2011 and say to yourself ‘obvious Leibniz quote’. I myself enjoyed a cornucopia of death, taxes and medical bills with the occasional meaningless workplace drudgery to salt the meal. But let’s not linger on the past when a glorious future awaits! In 2011, many [...]
Christmas re-education camp
December 25th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Ranting
As feared, as predicted; three years of hits and memories have damaged my ability to write music. Three years is longer than most bands last in total. It’s enough time that synapses can burn out by repeated robotic renditions of Dead Eyes Opened. Hell, maybe my entire cerebral music centre is gone. It’s not that [...]
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The giant meteor that squashed Guangzhou airport
December 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Ranting
The day began as any other in the south of the Great Empire – the morning glowed sickly brown with flecks of purple as the old sun cut through layers of patriotic chemical fog. The re-education camps were already alive with the screams of those regaining their harmonious relationship with the state. Minor officials lay [...]
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Resolution.
December 11th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Ranting
I can’t remember which story it was – an elderly English detective novel (Agatha Christie or some such) which featured a guru in residence at the dead man’s mansion. When questioned by the detective he says: ‘I want nothing’. Three times. The clever English detective translates for us; he wants for nothing, he wants no [...]
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