I’ve noticed that I read the word Freedom more often, when there is a bombing raid going on in a country with large oil reserves. The Freedoms are being defended to avoid humanitarian crisis in the fight against the war on <insert rhetoric here>. The humanitarian crisis is averted and the no fly zone victory [...]

Do you worry, that in 50 years, huge electricity power plants will be required to feed the servers, under the ocean, that are storing all your backed up spam and Facebook. I don’t even read it all any more. But I have it backed up. I have more and more backed up. So do you. [...]

When I’m describing my practice of yoga I’ve found its necessary to make a distinction between these four words – belief, experience, faith and philosophy – as I find that they are used interchangeably and yet everyone has their own version of what they mean. Experience – something that actually happened to me Faith – [...]

For a couple of years, I have been performing concerts in people’s homes. People love music . . . but they lose touch with it. Let’s face it, we’d all rather go to a friend’s house than a loud venue. The culture of house concerts is huge throughout Nth America but it’s in its infancy [...]

C.R.A.P = Chronic Risk Analysis Psychosis Apparently the term was coined by the father of risk analysis who reckons we have all gone too far. Recently I was in a meeting, preparing a proposal and we arrived at the risk assessment section. Another of the attendees suggested that the 3 risks we had outlined WASN’T [...]

I’ve been meeting with various Arts bureaucrats in the past few months who are very welcoming and all want to know what my ideas are. I in turn would like to know what their ideas are. They want to know what I am doing. I’d like to know what they are doing. You get the [...]

In the future everyone will be a risk assessment consultant. I would like to produce a show called the death tent. It would travel the country and set up in ovals under a big top with huge letters on the outside that spelled out  D.E.A.T.H   T.E.N.T Out the front there would be two people, [...]

The focus group has no idea Ideology has become a dirty word in a market / focus group / spin doctor society. The lowest common denominator is now the guiding factor. No matter which side of politics you may be on it is interesting to note the ideals of the other side are talked down [...]