Skills aka the best insult

I recently heard the best insult. 

“Some people have no decernable skills. I would not trussed them to hold my beer.” 

There is a wonderful YouTube video highlighting the insult , you can find it here. 

https://www.google.co.za/amp/s/www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/amp26097627/labour-mp-jess-phillips-speech-unskilled-workers-house-commons/

Of course she was speaking about class, gender and inequality. A note worthy conversion I’m happy to get in to. 

However I think I may adopt it myself to describe, well? For example the person who ‘renovated’ my semi- only to have the work left either incomplete, or subiquantly breaking the minute anyone tries to use the repair. A man so incompetent I would not trust him to hold my beer. I have spent the last three weeks repairing this mans complete and utter lack of skill. An look, I’m not exactly a builder, but if I can do a better job by using YouTube, on the first go. You skill set, is low, low, low. So low you couldn’t pogodance under its height.

So go forth and repeat this excellent insult with abandon. 

Bat Wife

In praise of shadows. [ http://pdf-objects.com/files/In-Praise-of-Shadows-Junichiro-Tanizaki.pdf ] 

A wonderful piece of writing on light and shadow, and aesthetics written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, in 1977. Retranslated recently. A piece of writing my husband should read. Cooking supper tonight, my husband walks in and turns the light on, tada he says. This is a common theme with bat wife, a lesser know side effect of growing up without that useful modern convenience of electricity. 

Sometimes I like to image I’m the last person I know who might be okay, if the world as we know it comes to some self inflicted end. I’ll be just fine. 

Growing up with our the brilliance of the 21’st century, has some great percs, not the least of them being a great appreciation for light and shadow.

In the mean time, I remain bat wife.

Computer sez no.

Have you ever wondered what would happen when people stop being able to think for themselves. It’s quite fascinating to observe what happens when a system fails, and how hard it is for people to comprehend that a person might be able to think through this problem. 

Take for example the insedent  of the lost money transaction. After a paying failed and still took the cash off the card. And the money somehow became entangled in digital limbo, floating in the vortex of a bitstream. 

In only took 8 phone calls, 2.5 hours are multiple banks, and one poor customer service operators day being ruined. To locate the missing cash. I may have to be become a Luddite, quite the digital and return to sustainable living, with paper and pen. Drag out my drawing board. Forget our over reliance on computers or systems, really put the human mind to the test. 

Think about this, can you do your job without the computer, program you have come to rely on? I know I would struggle. 

Dead Zeppelin

 99 Red Hindenburg’s , 

Have you ever noticed how much a Zeppelin looks like a submarine? My husband Wayne makes excellent beer, Brixton Bitter for those joburg locals. We where playing around with beer names, as you do. It’s really the band name game of your late thirties, plus you get beer. And Wayne came up with these two. The above are my attempts to draw the ideas out. 

It being already February and the year seems to be wizzing bye again. Mostly the last two years have felt like a giant series of Hindenburg’s explosions, one after another. Here too 2019, looking a little less fiery. So far some good news, and creative practice awaits. 

Melktark / map

So this is the worlds best ‘melktert’ X marks the spot. Melktert  for those of you non- South Africans is one of South Africa’s best local deserts. 

Milk custard + cinnamon topped.

The quest for best milk tart.

An adventure awaits... 

Seriously go there, eat it in the parking lot. Actually get in an aero plane, fly here, rent a car, eat it in the parking lot. 

For those of you not South African, what kind of food would you draw a map too?