Sunday 21st June 2026. (What are the Fafocene Diaries? See here). Well, France is getting it now, and we in the UK get it next week. Humans who are rich enough, lucky enough will have a bad time of it, even with their airconditioning. Humans who aren’t rich, who are sick, young or old, they... Continue Reading →
Saturday 20th June 2026. (What are the Fafocene Diaries? See here). Since the reign of George ‘Dubya’ Bush (2001-2009) I’ve been saying that the Universe wants satirists to starve. You wouldn’t dare make this shit up, it’s far too on the nose. Now, with the latest farce of the Trump “administration” - the corrupt/botched reflecting... Continue Reading →
Blog post Ovid’s Metamorphoses #001/111: “Invocation” What this project is about. This one is from Book 1. How long it took to read this (aloud): 28 seconds What it’s “about”: Ovid setting the scene, asking ‘God’ to help him out Words I didn’t know: none Quotable quotes: “Now I shall tell of things that change”... Continue Reading →
Friday 19th June 2026. (What are the Fafocene Diaries? See here). Woke up this morning to the news that 42% of the people who turned out to vote (59% turn out) in the Makerfield by-election voted for a faaar-right candidate (35% Reform, 7% Restore). Fortunately tactical voting by Lib Dems and Greens helped The King... Continue Reading →
Thursday 18th June 2026. (What are the Fafocene Diaries? See here). Last night I listened to my somewhat brilliant wife give a talk she has (mostly) given before. During the bits I’d heard before I bashed out seven quatrains (iambic tetrameter, aabb rhyme) about, well, the Fafocene. These will be the prompts for future diary... Continue Reading →
Weds 17th June 2026. (What are the Fafocene Diaries? See here). Yesterday I finished the basic tidy up of the CO2 Newsletter texts. (1). The CO2 Newsletter, founded and edited by William Barbat, ran from 1979 to 1982. It came out ever two months and was a round-up of what was being written, said and... Continue Reading →
At some point in the mid-late 1980s (I think), I read a novel written in the 60s or 70s (I think) about submarine warfare. This was pre-Tom Clancy stuff, not technoporn. More the gritty, sweaty industrial stuff. Anyway, in the book in question (Event-1000?) a submarine is damaged (I forget if due to hostile action,... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I met someone formally for the first time (we’d crossed paths a couple of weeks earlier). And he told me some background about the person in charge of a current campaign that helped me see recent events in a new light. Without getting into libelous details, suffice to say that sometimes people are using... Continue Reading →
I have been deep into the archives of the State Library of South Australia, mostly looking at papers (magazines, newsletters etc) from the second half of the 1960s through the 1970s. No, I am not a strange strange man. Why do you ask? Anyway, this was the period, as the 'Great Acceleration' slowed slightly, where... Continue Reading →
John 18: 38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. I did not buy a copy of Frank Hardy’s Power Without Glory (that’s a lie). I did not spend a... Continue Reading →
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