Wednesday, June 19, 2019

post zucker berg

what is German for sugarcube
what is Dutch
what is X for sugarcube
every word for sugarcube
sugar mountain sugar
hill sugar cliff

Pharmacopeia
an afternoon with Darwin's Pharmacy
via Kevin Killian's poetry foundation hashtags

on George Qausha's prompting

Where's the Pharmacy Library
Not a bus ride away, Parkville
Call Monash, ask am I allowed to go there

Go on hold and listen to jazz

Do you have bustracker on your phone
You're listening to music
from the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music

walking bass orchestra

Your call is important to us
and has progressed in the
Jazz and awol that's my

Hello this is Phillip

I'm not a student
Can I go to the Pharmacy Library
It depends what you want to do

trombone solo

Matheson librarian
transfers my call
cf State library membership update

Speaker phone:

Hello are you there
I am, yep
Oh Sorry just transferring you

saxophone solo

Librarian again:
I don't know what's going on there
I'll give you their direct number

9903 9514

That's their direct number
Sorry about that
I love Monash Uni

9903 9514

I'm not a student etc, Can I etc
I just have to check one second
That's totally fine

Awesome

No luck?
No, luck.
No one can answer?

No. Luck.

Aaaagh coffee!

Last night in the Library of Congress
George Bush snr played me the song
that helped him through a terrorist attack
as a GI in the Phillipines in the 1950s

his favourite song
a stack of records

Sunday, June 16, 2019

post-breakfast composition

I used not to like Garfield or the Garfield
Cameron Spencer's sister drew
her Odie pictures smelled
but I don't mind Garfield now
This morning over reheated porridge I read Slothilda
which is just reheated Garfield jokes
reprinted from a blog
about sitting at a computer
After breakfast I put oversocks over my socks
and sat at a computer
Worse than blogs turned books
are comic book novelizations
for example those based on Bone and Hilda
the smell of the prose
possibly arises from false intentions
Last night Patrick's brother who doesn't exist
was teaching me how to draw from life
We arranged avocadoes
that I drew as a series of stacked faces
surrounded by clouds outlined with lead pencil
When I woke I felt strongly suspicious about yesterday afternoon
countered by the double rainbow
I drove as far as I could towards
without going further than we needed to to get home
The green cup in this photo is filled with water from last night

Thursday, June 13, 2019

relayed minutes

they knew it was going to be a bunfight
a guy in a suit introduced himself
this is my name I'm from the department
that's my role
the treasurer said stick to the agenda
well what's the first item
two minutes of complete mayhem
where there's no minutes
how about we skip to the voting
the president didn't show up
the vice-president read this huge speech
there was a bunfight about that
is this really the place for this kind of thing
said someone from the crowd
associated with no one
the secretary circulated an email
27 complaints about the school
the guy stood up and said no you can't
read a summary
without their permission
and the secretary threw a tantrum
and said well I resign
the other ones stomped out of the room
they had created a website
for parents to add their complaints
and its name changed during the meeting
to parents auxiliary

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Choice Clusters



There are 119 instances of cluster in Choice Magazine's cereal reviews. Herewith is the list of clusters:

Goodness Superfoods Better for U! Barley Clusters
Be Natural Manuka Honey Clusters & Flakes
Coles Oat Clusters Cranberries & Blueberries
Coles Simply Gluten Free Vanilla & Berry Crunchy Clusters
Coles Vanilla Flavoured Oat Clusters Almonds & Sunflower Seeds
Food for Health Crunchy Clusters
Food for Health Fruit Free Clusters
Carman's Crunchy Clusters Cranberry, Apple & Nut
Carman's Crunchy Clusters Dark Choc, Cranberry & Roasted Nut
Carman's Crunchy Clusters Honey Roasted Nut
Coles Almond & Vanilla Flavoured Clusters
Coles Almond, Hazelnut & Macadamia Cluster Fusions
Coles Cranberry & Blackcurrant Clusters
Coles Peanut Butter Clusters
Kellogg's Special K Whole Grain Clusters Flaked Almonds Cranberries & Pepitas
Kellogg's Special K Whole Grain Clusters Flame Raisin & Red Apple
Kellogg's Sultana Bran Extra with Crunchy Oat Clusters
Sanitarium Granola Oat Clusters Vanilla & Almond
Sanitarium Light n Tasty Macadamia & Honey with Oat Clusters
Table of Plenty Yumola Clusters Gingerbread
Thankyou Apple & Apricot Clusters
Thankyou Fig & Pear Clusters
Coles Apple & Cinnamon Cluster Fusions
Coles Cashew, Peanut & Honey Clusters
Coles Cocoa, Cashew & Cranberry Cluster Fusions
Coles Cocoa, Hazelnut & Almond Clusters
Freedom Foods Crunchola Apples & Blueberry Juice Clusters
Freedom Foods Crunchola Apples & Cinnamon Clusters
Freedom Foods Crunchola Berries & Vanilla Clusters
Vogel's Golden Baked Cluster Crunch Classic
Woolworths Select Clusters Vanilla Almond
Coles Macadamia, Honey & Cranberry Cluster Fusions
Coles Pecan & Maple Cluster Fusions
Jordans Crispy Oat Clusters Chunky Nut
Jordans Crispy Oat Clusters Raspberry
Jordans Crispy Oat Clusters Strawberry
Simply Cereal Honey & Almond Muesli Clusters
Table of plenty Yumola Clusters Banana Yoghurt
Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Clusters

"So whether you're after cereals that are bran-based, flakes, biscuits, clusters or gluten-free [...]
watch out for ingredients such as coconut oil or palm oil – often in cluster-type cereals"

source: https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/bread-cereal-and-grains/cereal-and-muesli/articles/breakfast-cereal-review

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Argentine ant experiment 16/8/2018

This jam came from a donut from the bread roll shop in Ormond.
10.43 

We have a problem with ants, especially after it rains. They come inside and show up our cleanlinesss or lack thereof.
11.56 - two ants

I wanted to see how long it would take before ants discovered the jam. Ants are like explorers, some turn back too soon, others keep their discoveries to themselves, soon though word gets out and the jam is covered.
12.27

M got super mad at me for attracting ants into the kitchen. I washed the plate and the experiment became how long after a resource has disappeared does it take for the ants to likewise vanish?
12.38

For lunch I had a fried egg on toast. Ants really like leftover yolk.
14.20