REVISITING INSTAGRAM PART 2

Instagram these days seems to be a site where people mainly post mindless videos, rather than delving into life’s mysteries, so it’s not really me, but I wondered if I could stick to just posting pictures – after all, one of my hobbies is taking photos of random strangers… (This is a follow up to […]

WISE TRADITIONS ELEVEN DIETARY PRINCIPLES

Are you confused about what to eat? Do you find it difficult to navigate the conflicting claims for different diet plans? Unfortunately, these dietary plans share little with the way healthy humans have eaten for thousands of years. INTRODUCTION At the Weston A. Price Foundation, we turn to the pioneering work of Dr. Weston A. […]

ADVENTURES INTO INSTAGRAM PART 1

It is a long time since I posted anything on Instagram… I  previously had an account – sift666 – that I used to post photos on from 2013 to 2016, but after I stopped using it my login stopped working, and it’s been over seven years since I’ve posted on Instagram or even looked at […]

AN INTERESTING TRANSVESTIGATION

While Mr E does tend to get carried away, calling just about every celeb in Hollywood a tranny, and pushing things way over the line as far as believability goes,  then adding religious fundamentalism and flat earth ravings into the mix to totally trash any remaining credibility, sometimes he really nails one. In this video […]

TOUGH GUYS DON’T DANCE

This movie from 1987, based on a Norman Mailer book, got terrible reviews when it came out, and many people consider it to be appalling. In some ways it is, but I have to say I still think it is one of the most entertaining movies I’ve ever seen. I have just watched it again, […]

This music video has probably been influencing my art for 32 years

Back in the 90’s there was awesome music. I miss all that amazing music! Screamadelica There’s no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream — an impact that rivaled that of Nirvana’s Nevermind, the other 1991 release that changed rock. Prior to […]

NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO WORRY

Many years ago one of my friends decided to top himself with a drug overdose at the ripe old age of 23 After his funeral I rode my mountain bike up to the top of a local hill and sat looking out over the view. Strangely a voice in my head seemed to say “don’t […]

MY NEW MONTH’S RESOLUTIONS

Today is the first day of September. At the start of last month I had two new month resolutions. To stop using all social media, and to focus on the positive.  How did that all go? Well the social media part went OK, I did totally stop all use of social media for a solid […]

SIFTINGS #03 – ALL MY QUICKIE POSTS FROM AUGUST 2023

As part of my ongoing experiments with testing out alternative platforms for blogging, in an attempt to get around Google’s relentless blacklisting, I have been posting some short posts on a new Blogger account www.sift.co.nz (in the belly of the beast!) This is my third WordPress compilation post containing some of my quickie Blogger posts […]