14 Friday Jun 2019
Posted in Humour, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Politics, Satire, Social Comment, Summer
Photo by Husband of Candia – under strict instruction.
At present it really is raining cats and dogs, stair rods or
whatever non-EU idiom you care to employ.
The automobile is finished. For those who can’t afford
a carriage, they’ll just have ‘to look sweet on a bicycle
built for two.’
Metroland becomes Retroland.
07 Tuesday May 2019
Posted in Celebrities, History, Humour, Literature, Nostalgia, Photography, Politics, Satire, television
Candia understudies Mark Rylance- takes on his ‘mantel!’
Photo by Candia’s Significant Other
25 Thursday Apr 2019
Posted in Animals, art, Humour, Photography, Politics, Satire, Social Comment
Tags
Banksy, Brexit Day, Bristol Museum, chimpanzees, devolved parliament, House of Commons, Laugh Now
This gallery contains 3 photos.
21 Thursday Mar 2019
06 Wednesday Mar 2019
Posted in Celebrities, Humour, News, Photography, Politics, Satire
as seen in an Oxford shop window today!
Photos by Candia
10 Thursday May 2018
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28 Wednesday Mar 2018
Posted in art, Language, Literature, mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Social Comment, Writing
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anarchy, Andromeda, Animal Farm, Burne-Jones, Cassiopeia, casuistry, censorship, Diaz, Dr Atl, etymology, free expression, guerilla warfare, hacendados, Heaven, Hell, Liberty, liberty/licence, Pre-Raphaelites, Prometheus, revolution, volcanoes
Another poem inspired by Prometheus Unbound
by P B Shelley:
Andromeda by Burne-Jones: Wikipedia
A wheel will come full circle, you will find.
The outcome’s in the etymology
of ‘revolution.’ Think ‘Animal Farm.’
‘You seize the flower; the bloom is shed,’ Rab said.
Heaven and Hell are one’s inner landscapes.
Give a man an inch; he’ll take a mile.
Liberty/ licence – where to draw the line?
Free expression/ censorship : who can judge?
Anarchy is based on casuistry.
Prometheus played with fire and was burnt.
Imagination versus tyranny.
He who is king over himself is free.
Cassiopeia took the liberty
of a frank assessment of others’ looks.
Say nowt if you can’t say anything nice.
Why did the Pre-Raphaelites feel free
to create soft porn from mythology?
Liberty bodices off; shackles on.
‘When tigers are unleashed, who controls them?’
said Diaz, while Dr Atl opposed
slaves’ exploitation by hacendados,
exploding guerilla warfare into print,
like lava from his beloved volcanoes –
but he still became a neo-Nazi.
So, I’m suspicious of all these Titans,
larger than life, whose words stream in the wind.
They’re the self-acknowledged legislators,
crying, ‘Liberty, equality… (Blah!)
prior to being overthrown – not by a coup –
yet everywhere men are free, but in chains.
27 Tuesday Mar 2018
Posted in Community, Literature, mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Social Comment, Writing
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Demeter, dichotomy, Fennel, Free Will, Golden Age, liberty/licence, Mecone, nobility, Pandora, Persephone, pomegranate, Prometheus Unbound, Shelley, tax havens, Titans
A poem to celebrate the bi-centenary of ‘Prometheus
Unbound’ by PB Shelley:
We always want slightly more than our share,
whether it’s food, or perceived liberty
and we, like Prometheus, play tricks,
but gods fore-know what is our little game.
Everyone wants to live in Mecone,
in a Golden Age of wealth, abundance,
with a personal cornucopia;
or to be on the same standing as gods –
expressing a modicum of Free Will;
able to question who has sovereignty.
The problem with challenging Order is,
it often involves (slight) deceit.
Liberty! Desirable; dangerous!
There is shame in personal ownership:
else, why do we hide sparks in fennel stalks,
or in off-shore tax havens, for that matter?
The flames of liberty need to be fed.
They will consume us, as they are consumed.
Demeter found there was a compromise.
Persephone, you lied. You were not forced
to eat pomegranate seed. You screamed rape.
Pandora, with a thief’s temperament,
you actually had the soul of a bitch.
Is it better to reign in Hell, or serve
in Heaven? Prometheus, your attempt
just raises the age-old dichotomy:
liberty / licence. Where is the balance?
Some can subsist on sacrificial smoke;
Titans and men require sustenance:
labour, nourishment and nobility.
24 Saturday Mar 2018
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collage, found objects, poisoning, Salisbury, Skripal, spy, subliminal, trefoil radiation symbol
I have never noticed that there is a kind of ionising radiation
trefoil symbol on one of the buildings in the roofscape. Unintentional,
I’m sure. In line with ‘found objects’ and the subliminal, I only saw it after
I had pasted it on!
19 Monday Mar 2018
Don’t ask me ‘Why?’ No one asked Robert Rauschenberg
that question…. Did they?
