Archive (Page 8) • More Like a Spoon Than a Fork • Buttondown

Bad rock climbing

July 13, 2022

When I lived in Canberra a friend of mine from teaching said 'hey come rock climbing'. She is a really accomplished climber, as is her husband (Australia's...

Low and Slow

June 30, 2022

I wanted to share a bit about how being an artist is going financially but I’ve had a surprisingly busy week and just haven’t had the chance to crunch the...

There's a season to everything

June 22, 2022

One of my favourite things to say is 'there's a season to everything' and it strikes me that it's a slightly more poignant way of saying 'everything ends'....

Heavy Rocks (it's a long one)

June 15, 2022

On Friday last week I went to my first live music concert in a long time. Not just because of COVID, but just in general I don’t go to much live music....

Five Years (...and counting)

June 7, 2022

On Friday I had a big shipment arrive at my house, a pallet jack had to be used to get it from the truck to my front door. Shrouded in an obscene amount of...

Biocrust, new work and when is an idea a good one?

June 1, 2022

Hello everyone. I know I'd said I'd be too busy to write a newsletter this week, but guess who has COVID? (symptoms are mild and I'm almost done isolating)...

Matty on break!

May 17, 2022

Hi guys - I'm traveling for work, then on leave, then traveling for work again, so it'll be a while. Have a great three weeks :)

Weeding changes the world

May 12, 2022

On the weekend I went to the You Yangs with my parents to weed Koala habitat. We were looking for a plant called Bone Seed (what a great name!) that...

The Lottery

May 5, 2022

Sometime in the last year or two I've noticed a change in myself: when I walk past a sign advertising the lotto I just can't help myself, I think 'fuck that...

Sweet Potato Dip

April 28, 2022

Yumi's Sweet Potato and Cashew Dip has a special place in my heart. The summer between Year 11 and Year 12 I was really, really sick. In, like, September or...

All the small things

April 21, 2022

Something I've been grappling with for a long time is the idea that regular, small things matter as much, or more, as larger, more dramatic, more story-...

Time

April 14, 2022

In my memory, some years are just monoliths: so much seemed to have happened and occurred. Others are barely blips. 2005, for example, is a year I could name...

There's a lot of waste in the world

April 7, 2022

I run a small publishing company and through this I send maybe 200-300 packages a year. It amazes me that, just by saving packaging I get from other things I...

Fizzy (and the soft sell)

March 29, 2022

Most days I feel fizzy for some of the day. To me fizzy is both tired and energetic, it's stimulated but undirected. I could go for a run, fire up Photoshop...

I think about Fantasy like I think about Art

March 24, 2022

Of all the genre fiction that I adore, Fantasy is my absolute favourite. While it's the red-headed-step-child of the writing world, for as long as I've been...

Normal to Great

March 17, 2022

One of my favourite things about life is how small the difference between a normal day and a great day really is. To me, and maybe this is my personality, a...

White Bread - it was nice while it lasted

March 10, 2022

In main part due to how sick I was last week, I have been eating a bunch of white bread, something I've not done in years (decade+). Actually today, while...

Short one this week

March 3, 2022

I spent the afternoon before you're reading this on the phone with the ambulance trying to sort out if I needed to be rushed to the ER ASAP with something...

Too big to fail

February 24, 2022

I've been obsessed with the ocean lately. While I've always loved the beach, and for years wanted to be a marine biologist, over the last few months I've...

Art =/= Money

February 17, 2022

Strap in readers, this is a long one. But don't worry, no NFT chats at all. In 2018 I decided I would never be a High School teacher ever again. I had...