Some things may not be where they were
It was 2009 when I moved to London and finally decided to overhaul my website with WordPress, because it would simply be too embarrassing to leave it one second longer. (It had been puked onto the...
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We are all snakes now
The Caps Lock is probably next. It might be the postmodern elements of the internet that have destroyed my concentration, producing in my online activity a simulacra of intentional evasion of...
View ArticlePOETRY HULK SMASH
So today is National Poetry Day in the UK. Happy National Poetry Day! And by ‘Happy’ I mean ‘Fuck’. Because I wanted to be sincere and generous of mind on National Poetry Day, but instead I listened to...
View ArticleBaby now less like disabled kitten, more like badly programmed robot
OMG you guys my baby did this awesome thing the other day. I am totally going to tell you about it, and you can’t stop me because this is my blog. Your first reaction will be to make a barf-face. At...
View ArticleMe vs Capitalism: Stalemate
For the princely dangled sum of £100, I swept aside my convictions and offered my services to a market research company doing baby food focus groups. “I can subvert this process from within” I told...
View ArticleYou know I can’t interdict your ghost ships, bro.
I see that NZIS is advising the government to build refugee detention centres, to prepare for the imminent mass arrival of asylum-seekers by boat. Okay, so. All the WTFs aside. Immigration officials...
View ArticleDevoy’d of credibility
Someone confused multivitamins and multiculturalism, and unfortunately for us, it was Susan Devoy. Full disclosure: I used to work at the Human Rights Commission, although not for the office of the...
View ArticleFirst puns, now a poem – clearly, these are the results of post-traumatic...
My poetry hands are pretty arthritic by now, but this Race Relations Commissioner debacle has spurred me to erect the middle finger to scratch something out. Blame Tulia Thompson, my erstwhile...
View ArticleWho will watch the watchers? Report from the Chinatown store detective
Oh, hai. It’s been a while I guess. I got distracted studying maths in the library. No, really! I’ve started an MSc in social research methods, and it includes… maths. And it turns out I’m worse at...
View ArticleGrumpy old lady
You guys, I’m a university student again! Except this time, instead of being the socially-awkward 16-year old who threw up on herself while being supported to drink illegally on licensed premises, I’m...
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Tiananmen 25: Anniversary season
‘Tank Man’, 1989, Image by Jeff Widener At the movies the other week, I was subjected to an ad featuring a brainless celebration of the 25th anniversary of the invention of the Magnum ice-cream. The...
View ArticleA live peek at your cray
On Saturday morning London time, a rag-tag bunch of left-wing weirdos will descend on my flat to huddle around the glow of livestreams, making panic pikelets and schadenfreude pie, and wishing it was...
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