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It Is All Sushi
Sylvia Shawcross I understand Easter Island now. Those heads and bodies huge on the horizon of the islands staring...
20 Memes to Get You Through May Day – Part 32
Well, it’s May 1st – Happy May Day (Meme Day?) everyone! Where I live it has finally – finally...
Why do Peacock Spiders dance?
Sylvia Shawcross We’re not divided enough. Surely there are more things for us to fight each other over? We’ve...
Mother Goose Stepping
Sylvia Shawcross Here in the northern hemisphere winter mourns its way to spring with tears that sometimes freeze on...
Frothing in the fast lane
Sylvia Shawcross Some days the world will make you spitting mad. This naturally brings us to the little understood...
19 Memes to get you through the Day – Part 31
…and we’re back. We know you missed this, even if you hated the memes before, you felt the lack....
The Frog of War
Sylvia Shawcross There are seven types of frogs in the Ukraine. So whenever you look at the map of...
It WAS World Margarita Day…but it isn’t anymore
Sylvia Shawcross Now I was looking at February 22. Nobody really cares about February 22 because it isn’t special...
The Meal(worm)y Mouthed Monsters
Sylvia Shawcross And so we have to go back to discussing insects I’m afraid. It is just the way...
Down Cricket Road
Sylvia Shawcross Now you’d think that Jacinda Ardern, a WEF star, would have picked a different turn of phrase...
22 Memes to Help Get You Through Christmas
So this is Christmas, And what have we done? We’ve shared lots of meme posts, And had lots of...
12 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 28
Yet another Monday. Yet more memes. You know how this works by now. We’ve got a world cup, COP27...
The Maskparade Charade
Sylvia Shawcross In the ridiculous world of the New Abnormal where we apparently find ourselves it is critically important...
12 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 27
A busy week of narrative management, agenda setting and noisy distractions for the “new normal” crowd…but just means more...
We’re at Wefcon 3
Sylvia Shawcross In the ghastly world in which we live—a world that may be flat or not with a...
The Tale of Two Greedy Landlords
Catte Black, with illustrations by JR Leach
Once upon a time in a land far away and in a time of plenty there were two rich...
The Butterfly Monologues
Sylvia Shawcross There are four types of people in the world. Well, in this world anyway. Now, the first...
15 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 25
Memes are back again this week, for our quarter-century edition. Yes, it’s already been 25 collections of memes…hasn’t the...
Tapestries and Tapeworms
Sylvia Shawcross Ah the scientists. Bless their happy little hearts I always say. Having known a few of them...
Endless Tremendous
Sylvia Shawcross I don’t know what we’re all complaining about. Truly. The world is just so ripe with tremendous...
