I guess this fact is not a very nice one but the pic has a nice touch of humour.
Keep it silly on the small island.
Thank You.
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Here’s a painting I made while enjoying a stay in a mental hospital recently. While I was working on it one of my friends walked in and said: “The cow jumped over the moon.” Then we laughed and carried on painting.
If you look really closely you can tell that it was painted by an insane person. If you can’t see this then I’m afraid that you might be delusional yourself. No worries. It’s ok. If you are, you are not alone. Someone once told me that if you look around you realise that everyone is actually crazy. But then again, what did he know, he was insane himself.
Thank You.
I met Mr Happy Chicken Suicide Cult about a year ago through a very nice girl. He seems quite a nice quiet guy and makes very nice cartoons. Today this one is really for me. He calls it “handy info for teens.”
Dammit! This whole maturity growing up thing is really beginning to piss me off. Every time I reckon I’ve finally grown up there’s some kind of curve ball *cringes* or someone changes all the rules without telling me and I end up like some foolish little kid again. Oh well, I guess I’ll just give up trying and keep wearing more black and skulls and shit. Earlier I was listening to Marilyn’s “I’m through with love…” and I’m not sure if that fits. But I’ve got a skull face watch from Seoul that looks pretty fucked up and I’ve started skateboarding again so that should help too… Why am I writing this bullshit? I don’t even care…
Guess I’ll just go and see that lawyer about that stuff that keeps just going on and on and take it from there…
Thank You.
The fly’s vision through the glass is clear
Focussed, it flies forward and forward and forward
Rebounding off the glass
Focussed on its’ goal: outside
The breeze slipping through the open window next to it
Flutters by giggling all the while
Shaking its’ head with frivolity
Gleefully it mutters to itself as it wanders by:
“Imagine fly, dear fly if you were I?”
As the sound of the fly, the buzzing fly
Fades in the wind’s wake
Constant as the flow of the breeze
- 03.10.2007, from the collection, Some poems about life and stuff by stuart barnes
Teresa Orazio is an illustrator and graphic designer from Italy. She is based in Amsterdam and the moment. Her work is fun, witty and intelligent. Her taste in art, design and music is I think really nice. I am working on a small project with her soon and this should be fun.
Thank You.
The child is not dead
the child raises his fists against his mother
who screams Africa screams the smell
of freedom and heather
in the locations of the heart under siege
The child raises his fists against his father
in the march of the generations
who scream Africa scream the smell
of justice and blood
in the streets of his armed pride
The child is not dead
neither at Langa nor at Nyanga
nor at Orlando nor at Sharpeville
nor at the police station in Philippi
where he lies with a bullet in his head
The child is the shadow of the soldiers
on guard with guns saracens and batons
the child is present at all meetings and legislations
the child peeps through the windows of houses and into the
hearts of mothers
the child who just wanted to play in the sun at Nyanga is
everywhere
the child who became a man treks through all of Africa
the child who became a giant travels through the whole world
Without a pass
- Ingrid Jonker
Some bank sent me this today. This is spam. Obviously. As you can see it is plain as day (well maybe not a grey day in england but a sunny day in SA like today). I can’t stand banks but they are a necessary evil, or so it seems. I would like to contact them to ask them not to spam me again but experience tells me that this will result in numerous fruitless conversations with impotent people who don’t care.
Therefore I thought that I would simply publish this idiocy here for all to laugh at. This is apparently a local South African bank. It used to be called Barclays Bank. Of course this was back in the days when SA was apparently totally “evil” under apartheid. Mrs Thatcher of the small silly little island famously said: “sanctions don’t work.” What she didn’t say is what she meant by “work.” Well here’s what she meant just to spell it out lucidly: making fucking money.
Apparently by some strange coincidence when we became a happy fledgeling rainbow nation democracy (or is it more like Anikulapo says: demo crazy, crazy demonstration?_), Barclays Bank swiftly employed some design consultancy (or my guess it was planned and designed, done and dusted well before) and rebranded to become FNB: First National Bank. I guess First Nationalist Bank or First World Bank or Forgot to Need a Bank were not really viable as names.
What it really stands for is Fucking Nobody’s Business but ours. And what it means is that the small island still has it’s little dick up our ass.
So what is the moral of the story? Well if anyone knows please tell me, I’m still looking…
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written by Cees Bruggemans (Chief Economist FNB), Rudolf Gouws (Chief Economist RMB) and Ettienne Le Roux (RMB Economist).
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Island Olly sent me this.
She slipped on it running the other day and it went squish. Yuck! She’s lucky to be alive!
I see slugs at nite in these parts sometimes but nothing like this. I don’t much look closely where I walk so I feel quite happy that I don’t have to contend with surreptitious mobile obstacles like this. Scary stuff - even scarier than Roger Rabbit!
Awesome pic nevertheless 
Thank You.
