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The lifestyle of Yowies
The lifestyle of the Yowie presents a potential remedy to our malady, in the current age of ‘grustle’ culture. Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society argues that our society has moved from Foucault’s notion of a ‘discipline-based society’ into an ‘achievement-based society’ and investigates its implications upon the modern-individual. The modern society is a cult of…
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Yowku
Hit my head againDoona covers in a pileOff we goFelt yatagarasuOnigiri wrapped + backpackedBeatles on the tvMist + cloud + fog + rainCold, but it was a wet coldOnsen, wet hotNo one else can understand usThat’s okNo one else here
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Yowie raps I — Folkie
Browsing the shops. Lookin for somethin to eat. Wife wants chops, kid wants beef. Better hop to it ‘fore he cheeks or freaks. Pop some sweet slop. Unleash the beast. Heard there’s this thing on. Some folkie shiz, down in the bush where the music is. Might check it out or the kid will whinge.…
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For love and lemons: How-to befriend a yowie
A collaborative epic by Squid, mg, ggj, and the Yowies of Bluegum Forest Intro With pockets full of jerkyKnees not yet feeling hurtyWe set out from the heathInto the bluegum forest beneathFor waratahs and yellow budsOur human hearts did yearnWhile the yowie foot did echo In the palms and fronds and fernsA ruben in the bellyBefore…
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Come Yowith-me
If you went to the Louvre and saw a great work of art, would the face of the artist enter your mind? Do you imagine an author’s day after reading a touching poem? When eating delicious food how often are we acknowledging those who have created it? Maybe you have at that fancy restaurant with…
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Stevieisms
A beanbag in the sun is worth lots of beanbags in the shade. For how could we know sun without shade, and shade sun. I may not be a smart dog, but I know what salmon is. Embarrassed – is what a person chooses to be. Not the other way round. and not a dog.…
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YOWIE: A Compleat Entymology
YOWIE (pl YOWIES; v YOW, YOWE; fr YOWOUI) n. a tall hairy gentleman of the bush and outback regions of Australia; —— of the suburbs or outer CBD (less common). First rec. 1805 NSW in colonist Jim Timbers’ (1759-1805; see P. J. Timbers line) diary: ‘Fortune has come at last, for I have found the…
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A response to a performance plan
In this era of companies possessing an ever-tightening grip of corporate authority, Yowiehub.com has just exposed itself as yet another example of unchecked power. To begin this essay i would first like to confirm the rumours. Yes, Joe and Oscar, fan favourite contributors and founding members have been sanctioned and demoted. It gives me no…
