1st april 2026
Just kidding, April Fools!
Actually it is 18th March. And also 2nd April. I’m trying to write this the day after sending the last one, and get better through practice. You are probably glad I am trying to get better through practice too haha. Although it should be re-iterated that reading this isn’t mandatory. Which is more something that I am saying to myself to cope with the fact that you ARE reading this. Or are you.
menty b's
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menty b's *
Is March the most dangerous time in the year for mental health? For me, the cloak of darkness is lifted and somehow its like sobering up, and then perhaps you find out that even sober, issues remain and it wasn’t the demon drink after all. March is the mirror to your soul. If your are mentally uncertain like me then it’s quite hard to know where the edge of the cliff is in March and how far you can run before you fall over it into the wild sea of your mind. On the flip side, it’s rather hard to not transcendentally ascend repeatedly as you stare into a hedge, or a leaf, or when a wee bird hits you with the hot new 2026 music. When I was in China, my hosts wouldn’t let me eat more than 6 (8?) lychees cos they said, that’s too much fire energy, and that’s sort of what March is about perhaps? How would I know.
pope adjacent
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pope adjacent *
I go on alot about Catholicism considering I don’t really believe in that sort of GOD and more pertinently, I am an unchristened bastard. Never even eaten the wafer as ironically deep down I am a bit worried God will know I have done it as an unchristened bastard which somehow sums me up more than any other sentence. However it is fairly clear that the influence of the roman church has seeped in there a bit, even though really it would be gold not silver but have you seen the gold price?! If you haven’t, I have handily included a graph below. I find this fascinating cos really it’s mostly cos we like shiny things!?! I do basically think at the core it is that and my respect for jewellers always grows as they are the only one that can admit it alongside magpies.
UPDATE GOLD PRICE CRASHING! GOLD PRICE CRASHING!
Side note = Last week I got acid in my eye at college, and had my eye drenched in saline by a qualified optometrist. I felt so cared for I nearly started crying.
Do you feel Vatican-curious? These rings don’t help. They are £160 and I make ‘em to order #alwaysbeclosing
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Do you feel Vatican-curious? These rings don’t help. They are £160 and I make ‘em to order #alwaysbeclosing *
Shit’s going down in Gold Town.
MONEY
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MONEY *
For the last few years slash my whole life I have been obsessed with Money. Naturally I have tried to retrofit this psychologically into my immigrant ancestry (had to take it with us) PLUS the poverty of my forebears (got xmas pressies from the dump) but on the other hand, silver is shiny. I have been listening to Money by David Macwilliams and its very interesting to think of money as a system or human behaviour, and the trust and belief system that goes alongside it. It’s fairly close in that way to making art or religion, if you don’t believe in it, it will die. We all know Money is the route of all evil, but this book offers interesting viewpoint of the pre-financial feudal systems and the egality of the early monetary systems taking away power from the churches and lords in some senses. But now money is its own lord, and so the human search for power and domination continues. Money is crass, a quality I pride myself on and its also symbolic which is really all we have at the end of the day. Unless we have loads of money.
Last year I made necklaces out of out-of-circulation pennies which I was getting a kick out of buying money which was by definition financially worthless but had gathered worth by being old. Different kinds of worth. And naturally I enjoyed engraving on them and also soldering onto the queens face. See Pope Adjacent above.
My friend Darren has made some money art too which is much more provocative than little cutie-pie over here lol have a look here: DARREN’S ART and here below are the coin necklaces and business I made. Throwing in that I am also interested in other belief systems like luck and fortune as well as silver and tokens and coins as well as crass and low grade art. GAH.
astrolonomy
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ASTRONOMY
So we have moved into, through, and actually out of Aries, which is firm ground on the animal front : RAM. This month, Aries will feel the full fire of April, feeling the urge to raise up on hind legs at fences, bare their teeth by flaring their lips and will freely be leaving their little hard poos everywhey they go. Fuck it, its Aries time! Aries are stubborn ol bastards and if you try to herd them into a pen without an appropriately trained sheepdog (leo) then you may butt up against them, so watch out for that. This month, Aries should look out for sharp barbed wire along the fences as they rear, but remember their wooly coat will likely protect them. So what I am saying is ne’er cast a clout til may is oot Aries! You’re still in Glasgow no Marbella. It should be noted that in chinese astrology the aries constellation divided up into a few constellations with 3 stars from Aries being incorporated into another constellation called Lou, which translates as sickle, comrades.
This guy int’ casting no clout
ASTRONOMY
Aries is where we can find meteor shower end of May called Arietids. 60 shooting stars an hour blasting into Earth’s atmos at 39 kilometres a second. Fun fact : when the rocky lump is out in space we call it a meteoroid, and once they hit earths atmos we say meteor. Not hugely fun, but factual. Also Shooting stars are not stars, they are burning molten rock. Rock as a liquid thats on fire. That’s hot.
Solid, liquid, gas, it’s all gravy
BYE BYE!
Morv x
