Jo Clarke

The average (median) musician will be on $0.00 as well. I live in New Zealand so that converts to NZ$0.00.

Four panel strip cartoon “Not in my Eulogy for my Mother 2, or What are you Tolkein about?” - 1958: “ooh, he’s a catch” thought bubble over three Tolkein books - 1968: “Why don’t you call him Shadowfax?” comment for my new toy - 1969-1981: a house called Rivendell - 1980s: “It’ll take days to redecorate. Put the tape on” with a cassette tape labelled “Hobbit 1/8”

I’m suppressing the thing about my mother which several friends think is her finest quality. #tolkein

Cartoon titled “Not in my eulogy for my mother”. Panels with Illness, Heckling, Ask The Family, and Lemurs. All ineptly drawn/lettered.

“Not in my eulogy for my mother” I wasn’t sure I could or should try to mark this with a cartoon. But I describe her as having an “of course you can” attitude so here it is. #eulogy

Black Floyd. Or does that sound quite cool?

“Know your Politicians” poster in the style of the “Know your drugs” campaign. Are your politicians what they’re meant to be? Make sure. Check your pols. Bluesky can legally test National / NZ First / ACT / Labour/ Green / Te Pāti Māori / TOP / and most other parties for dangerous behaviours like Hypocrisy / Incompetence / Gas-Lighting / Racism / Corruption / Big Money / Climate Change Denial / Lobbyists / In-Fighting

Check your Politicians #nzpol

Eight panel strip cartoon. State Highway 1 Thoughts, or SH1T for short. Short consultation period, moving the takatāpui queens, $$$, pedestrian crossings, bus disruption in Hataitai. It’s being done TO Wellingtonians, not FOR Wellingtonians.

My balanced, considered reaction to the SH1 plans to rip through Pōneke so more motorists can sit in traffic jams. 48 Hours left to get your submissions into NZTA Waka Kotahi. #wellington #nzpol

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would gratuitously give me a Peace Award” - Groucho Marx, kind of

My mother went out with Robert Shaw (the baddie hitman)’s brother before she met my father. If things had gone differently I could’ve looked like him. Spoiler alert: I don’t 😢

Sculpture in Waitangi Park, in front of Te Papa. Shiny reflective teardrop, reminds me of the Chicago bean

Just seen the mayor and peeps slowly filing round the teardrop in Waitangi Park. I guess that means it’s open then. #wellington #pōneke

Oriental Bay tram stop in Wellington. A handsome wooden building, white with dark green details, a bench inside for those days when the weather is challenging.

Here’s a recent picture of the shameful tramlessness of Pōneke Wellington.

Card Cutter Folder. It’s all about getting Christmas cards ready for last posting date.

Kārearea bird of the year. Didn’t see that coming. Well you wouldn’t, would you? #boty #kikorangi

Humble suggestion to speed up elections. All parties agree ahead of time what coalitions they would join, what policies would be followed. Then (a) we know what we’re voting for and (b) no drawn out negotiations. At the moment it just peters out, if you know what I mean. #nzpol

It’s even better than that! 25.9.2025 is a square day (45 * 45 = 2025) and the next one won’t be for 91 years!

Four panel strip cartoon - Square Days! - it’s 25/9/2025 which is a square day: 25 = 5 * 5, 9 = 3 * 3 - and 2025 = 45 * 45 - celebrate now! It won’t be another square day until January 1 2116 (which is a Wednesday) Dedicated to Valerie Solanas, born 9/4/1936 … a square day

Last Square Day for 91 years! Don’t forget to mark it! #squareday

Enamel lapel badge of a Tauhou stylised as a stamp. On a black coat over a white shirt.

Wearing my Tauhou lapel badge with pride! Vote Tauhou #1 then use your other votes to console birds without the Cleopatra eye makeup look.

Thanks to @pepperraccoon.com for the badge!

@karagod.bsky.social #boty #tauhou #waxeye

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky and Mick

Four panel strip cartoon - Friday night on Taranaki Street (picture of #115) - critical signals The Inevitabilism Panel - we generally don’t like A.I. - so how do we resist? - Make Shitty Art

Thanks to everyone for a great discussion! AI in its current form is *not* inevitable! #ai #inevitabilism #criticalsignals #makeshittyart

Two tauhou / waxeye on a feeder. Red syrup, green background

Massive support for you in Pae Tū Mōkai Featherston! #tauhou #boty

I’ve been a professional software developer for 40 years, but only today did someone liken buggy code to dropped stitches in knitting. Very insightful, and yes I have seen programs unravel.

The Policeman

I now realise that my mother-in-law worked with Jacquie Sturm at Wellington Library in the 1980s, and liked and respected her.

Thanks for that! If only everyone was more librarian.

Front cover of “How It Works: The Computer” Ladybird Book

“Gates and Highways” page with flow diagram

Different Designs page with pictures including “a small digital computer designed for the businessman”

Reminiscence, Remicroscence, Remainframescence: thinking back to different phases of computing.

The wall of Wellington Central Library, with the text of the Brown Optimism poem over multiple floors. In the foreground, the ongoing building works including a “Positively Pōneke” banner.

Wellington library now has poetry on its wall. “Brown Optimism” by J.C. Sturm #pukapuka #wellington #pōneke

My penultimate #squareday post. It’s still 9/9/2025 in much of the world, a date made up of three square numbers. My 93-year-old mother doesn’t recall any fuss the last time: 25/9/1936. If we miss it this month then that’s it for 91 years!

Sketch of tauhou on a bird feeder. Very little artistic skill evident.

Someone told us, and it worked. Checking on the internet, maybe we shouldn’t, the colour of the feeder is enough. Next lot will go out clear and I will let you know. Meanwhile, I need to get better at drawing them:

Two tauhou on a bird feeder full of red syrup. Green foliage background.

We cheat, with red-dyed sugar water. Our most successful bird feeder ever. Now I have to learn to draw tauhou for our 2025 Christmas Card.

Today is 4/9/2025 (or 9/4/2025). 4 = 2 squared. 9 = 3 squared. And 2025 = 45 squared. This doesn’t happen often! A couple more times this month then that’s it until the year 2116. Extra bonus points if you’re reading this at 11 minutes to 5pm, ie 16:49! #squareday #math #maths

OK #math Bluesky. We have less than four weeks to tell everyone about #squareday 25/9/2025 (or 9/25/2025) which is our last date for day month and year to be perfect integer squares! Won’t happen again until 1/1/2116 … and I don’t expect to be there to see it. Let’s not miss this opportunity!