I sense the coming day’s density around midnight, and try to pull out. A late text that my work is overwhelming — I must stay in cyberspace tomorrow, wrestling invisible work giants. I am drawn to and repelled by the meeting, menisci kissing before finally parting. Steve shoots back. He does not accept this reasoning. […]
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Ode to my cereal dispenser
I am writing a treatise about my dead cereal dispenser. I know that this may sound like a boring and irrelevant topic, but according to my sources in the ANC, all journalists, columnists and bloggers will, in the near future, be forced to write about boring and irrelevant topics. It is what the proposed media […]
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Why the hell are you single?
If you’re young, independent, bright and single you’ve probably been asked the question: “why the hell are you single?” For the unattached average 20-something this is a question that plagues your existence. For some it is a constant reminder that you are indeed without a significant other, for others who consciously chose the single life […]
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Weigh-Less for carbon addicts
If you are fat, most people would say you should probably go on diet. Cut down on what’s causing your love handles and that bloated beer belly. The same thinking, it seems, applies to climate change: having gorged ourselves on the bad stuff — fossils fuels and carbon emissions — while skimping on the greens, […]
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The Springboks, Weet-Bix, Airwolf and Nurse Busty
Occasionally — very occasionally — I am gripped by a completely alien urge to tidy up; to clear out the clutter, let go of what I don’t need, and find a place for the things I do. So, today, I tackled the unholy mess that has haunted me for months. Acres of books and bags […]
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The noises next door
Every year 1 400 women are killed by their partners, and maybe we were listening. If your neighbour plays music really loud on a week night, do you go over and ask them to keep it down? If they start banging their drums at 9pm in a residential area, do you think you should ask them […]
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Ladies, you are leaving us less and less choice
This has been a long time in the making and I apologise to my detractors and supporters alike for it taking this long to pen the follow-up to “I blame your mother for your laziness” which came in for much debate, as anticipated, and I hope that it opened people’s minds to how most men […]
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The power of nothing
I am a science-fiction lover. If this statement does not interest you, read no further; this blog post will mean nothing to you. (It might mean nothing to you anyway, but we’ll get to that later.) Science fiction is a bit like quiche; people either love it or hate it. I happen to love it. […]
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What’s the deal with ‘howzit babe’?
I’m going to talk about “babe”. Not the movie or the attractive young woman, but the standard term of endearment amongst middle-class South Africans. It’s usually attached to greetings or questions. “Howzit babe” or “Babe, can you open this jar for me?” You hear it everywhere, usually in places like Montecasino or the Builders Warehouse […]
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Getting over the ‘gees’
“Football teams are extraordinarily inventive in the ways they find to cause their supporters sorrow.” — Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby). This post is perhaps a month late but the truth is, this is not about the World Cup but what it has done to us as a society, a nation and individuals. I love football, […]
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The terminal failure of orthodox medicine
When my father died last year of cancer it took me some time to fully grasp the manner of his passing and to realise my own culpability in allowing the doctors to destroy whatever dignity death might have allowed him if I had had the courage and the knowledge to stop the torture. I allowed […]
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Panjo, Panjo…
By Jason Norwood-Young With apologies to William Blake TIGER, tiger, burning bright Near to Delmas, on the right, What infrared hand or eye Could track thy fearful symmetry? In what distant mealies or field What copse of bluegums dost thou shield? Why did you leave your bakkie and leap? Did you see a chicken, or […]