not as bitter as before

Another day at home with a fever, cups of tea, feeling on the edge of reality. This is the best time to post an update. When the cares of the world seem distant. I am not as bitter as before. Although many of us can now see the trajectory things are going, and the carcrash … Read more

rightbrain leftbrain

Plosm’s division of Logos and Ouroboros does map onto other dualistic theories of nature, such as the left brain vs. right brain conceptualisation of thinking styles, or feminine yin vs. masculine yang, or the philosophical mind vs body problem etc.   The development that Plosm adds to this division is the focus on the Path. … Read more

the groove of ’78

I was born in 1978 and although I don’t think i have any specific memories that i can be sure i can tie to the 1970s (when i was still under 2 years old), decades do tend to live on for a few years into the following one, and the general spirit of the 70’s … Read more

the fire has escaped

The sound track to this post is Anton’s new track “not blowing smoke up your ass” .. you should let it play in the background. Modern society is like a carefully calibrated engine.  After centuries of experimentation, by the mid 20th Century most the raw forces of humanity were brought into a balance, to drive … Read more

Collected Works, Ken Taylor and general Happenings

My holiday readings are scattered about, and it’s hard not to be distracted with the goings on in GENIUSVILLE (which stupidity threatens to engulf us all), but one of the more gentle amusements has been cruising thru the pages of Kris Hemensley’s blog ‘Collected works‘ namesake of the precious bookshop/hive/dive at Melbourne’s core, which I … Read more

How the death of Copyright will change society

My reasons for releasing all my poetry into the public domain, without retaining any copyright, have been posted on this site for a while. I’ve always thought that society would need to change if creative people are to make a living with or without the protection of copyright, and so I’ve been watching the emergence … Read more

the musical experiments

Here are some songs I have been working on over the last year or so. This is an unfinished song I am working on with a strange time signature; bars of 5, 5, 5 & 6 beats add up to 21, so it also makes three bars of 7, which is the rhythm of the ‘john’ … Read more

When we discover aliens, they will have teapots

When we (inevitably) discover intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, I predict that they will have teapots. My line of reasoning is that just as the evolution of body plans inevitably stumbles across useful things like mouths and body armour, so too the evolution of tools will inevitably stumble across useful forms like teapots. This … Read more

New recording of Accidentals

I have made a garage recording of Accidentals with accompaniment from local wildlife. The poems, which I wrote in 2008, are all on this website. I still have some of the paper copies left. This is me in my garage studio. I actually was testing out a new microphone reading the poems and thought the … Read more

Evolution or Revolution

A meritocracy is a kind of evolution, a social evolution. Like biological evolution, its business is to reward the survivors, and winnow out the weak. It is a hard game but the rules are set by Nature herself. For all its advantages over less obviously fair systems of resource allocation, like systems based on dynastic … Read more