Article Archive for April 2008

Waning Gibbous: “Upper Left Hand Corner of the Moon”
By davey
Posted in DNRC, Davey Dreamnation on 29 April 2008
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DNRC089 | LP | 2018 | DELETED
Strange retro-fitted space capsule band Waning Gibbous checked out of the collective sub-conscious some time in 2019, making this their last and, in some respects, worst album. In others, it resembles nothing so much as the scene of an aircrash investigation - a random smash-wreckage ensemble of rivets, torn [...]

Gowayz ob LOL: “O Kitteh! Meh Kitteh!”
By davey
Posted in Oddities, Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 25 April 2008
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Similarly, poetry (e.g. the Psalms) can be written
in such a way that it looks like a cat wrote it.
LOLCat Bible Translation Project
“O Kitteh! Meh Kitteh! Mai feeful trip iz dun, k?
Teh hoomun haz weferd evareh rack, teh googie wii want iz wawn,
Teh nom nom iz near, teh bels Iz heer, teh ppl iz exultez,
Wyl [...]

Envoi
By davey
Posted in Poems, Secret Lives of the Colonial Poets on 24 April 2008
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Brennan’s contemporary,

Bernard O’Dowd,

espoused the cause

of

nationalism,

and attained a far

greater
reputation
in his day;

but unlike
Brennan’s,

his work
has dated

badly.

Judith Wright,
A Book of Australian Verse (1968)

Fantasy I
By davey
Posted in Poems on 2 April 2008
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oh yea! let us go then you & me
to a tavern & drink meade there
mumble through a manuscript of
runes & pull on heavy chain mail

sharpen our swords (let the orcs
come now for we are ready here
in our makeshift campsite cloaks
compulsory tales of yore yea of

bravery (other words that sound
like meade did ye drink the dregs
of [...]