Feet

I recently broke my foot when a redgum railway sleeper fell on it. I have had to rest my right foot and have it pressure bandage. Call me skippy, hopalong or clubfoot if you will. I am coming to appreciate my humble little foot(haha not really I have big clown feet)- whose Metatarsal bone I have broken. The bone will take six weeks to heal. Did you know there are 33 joints in the foot? Did you know there are three kinds of walking which animals can be categorised under?


1. plantigrade (sole walking) 
2. digitigrade (toe walking)
3. unguligrade (nail walking)

      “Better slip with foot than tongue”- Benjamin Franklin

Feet in art

Girl drying her feet after bathing- Degas

The Arab pulling a thorn from his foot - Bannet

Feet in Fasion/Crazy mental shoes

Alexander McQueen

Famous foot Fetishists

Ted Bundy*

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thomas Hardy

Elvis Presley

Quentin Tarantino

Andy Warhol

David Williams

*Technically infamous - thankyou to Ian Mitchell for his helpful pedantry- Funnily enough this links to the next section of my rant

Etymology of the word Pedantry

Pedantry - Pedantic- Pedant- meaning someone who is very particular in the transmission of correct facts and knowledge

Linked to the word Pedagogue meaning teacher and hence the discipline of teaching referred to as pedagogy

This stems from the Latin name for a type of servant whose job it was specifically to lead the children of the family to school etc

the act of leading is therefore kinetically linked to FEET the act of using ones FEET in the act of leadership

Hence the root PED is seen in words relating to feet, teaching and learning, children and leading.

The reason children also are symbolically aligned to feet is the symbolic configuration of the family/societal system relating to the body with the Father/mother being at the head of the family and the children being the lowest part of the family- the feet.

...."At first, it was fun to pick the berries. The children enjoyed being out in the sun all day and running barefoot and having a good time while they worked... The sand which looked so white was really black underneath. It clung to the berries, it soiled bare legs and feet, hands and faces, dresses and overalls."

- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

At the moment my right foot is all bound up with bandages.

I like my feet when they both work good.

Feet are beautiful- you realise this one when one of them gets broke good n proper.

The Dead Weather- Sixty Feet Tall



Amanda dear Amanda

 You go by many names. I call you Mungo, Mandah, Nippo, Gumwallet, and sometimes Richard.  You are an endearing creature with all your own little kinds of specialness. SPESHAL! At the moment you have sore guts and a cat just jumped on your sore guts.

So now here’s a rant all about Amanda.

We bonded in Math’s class in year 8 when we were forced to sit together because they were splitting up the established little cliques who were having too much fun and never working – ha silly people we sure stuck it to the man on that little theory of creating MORE productivity in the learning context HA. I was there plodding away at my Pythagoras or some such math item (Ick!) and was singing or humming some song from Calamity Jane. Little Amanda joined in my singing much to my bemusement and amusement. With her giant fringe and bunny teeth she was a cross between Matilda the magic girl and Mixy from the Ferals. And she always smelled of chicken seasoning. From then on we were the best of friends- we talked and laughed and wrote poetry. Yes poetry.

We devised a system of writing a four line poem each on two disparate subjects then mashing them together to create surrealist vignettes of a mad incoherent world- in other words we made up dumb crap which made no sense but made us laugh til we wee’d ourselves a little bit.

Teacher: “How’s the Pythagoras coming along you two?”

(Heehee snicker shhhh heheee shhh)

“We are working on our latest poem an in depth study of the themes of Santa Claus and Robots”

Big red intergalactic enemy face ow you gave me a present!

It is all Amanda’s fault I’m so shite at maths I’m afraid. So now when I have to pay for something with change and have to count coins and I fail I blame her dammit I blame herrrr.

Some things about Amanda

·         Used to smell like chicken seasoning

·         Good at fetching me Chocolate milk and plain kettle chips

·         Wipes twisty crumbs on me just to shit me

·         Quite possibly has dyspraxia

·         I pretended to tip her drink up while she drank it resulting in her covered in orange juice

·         She lost my harmonica on the beach- then searched the dunes and found it

·         Once shat me so much I said to her “YOU WILL DIE BY MY HAND ONE DAY!”

·         Likes Pride and Prejudice and will quote it at odd times. Me: “do you want to leave now?” Her: “I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours”, Me: “uh does that mean yeeahh or naaa?”

·         In drama had to say the line “Don’t cream your pants Roy” to me

·         Shared my unrequited love of Mikelle (Mr Roberts in a gondolier costume “Hey Mr Roberts nice pole”)

·         My mum mistakes her for other Amandas but only when I’m having emergency surgery

·         Likes it when air conditioners suddenly alarm me

·         Likes it when the bird attacking her turns on me

·         Likes it when the car in front of us has a broken rear windscreen wiper

·         Likes purple and hyacinths so we potted a purple hyacinth for her named Heidi

·         Owned a Gemini which got gang of fourty-nined which made her sad

·         Likes Eqypt things- fully wishes she could be Evelyn in the Mummy

·         Likes Phantom of the Opera (chuckle)

·         She hates waste “I HATE WASTE NOM NOM”

·         Enjoys giant snitzel and Cider and German things and efficiency and Kraftwork in Stuudgart

·         Doesn’t mind the smell of acetate- sniffs the air passing beauty salons

·         Let me dye her hair playboy bunny yellow blonde one time

·         Can sing all the words to all Madonna ever. When alas I cannot

·         Came with me last minute to see a band because I cried like a baby child “pleeeeease it’t Jack! Jack’s going to be here and I won’t seeee himmmmm wahhhhh”

·         Can sleep on airport floors while I buzz out on giant coffee and guard my stuff like a wired ninja hobo guarding his bundle on the end of a stick “Don’t touch our stuff!! What are you lookin at?!!”

·         Understands who “Blanchefume” is ;)

·         Understands who “Snuffles” is ;)

·         Understands who my “mookoshloikoo” is ;)

·         Understands who Imhotep is and why he doesn’t want to live in the Carpathian mountains and now owns a Café called Café Imhotep and a person comes in with a white cat and he throws his waiter tray at it and runs of screaming Imhotepppp and then is in the back room going through the yellow pages looking for Anaksunamun

·         Watched the Italian teacher fail to juggle whilst I sing circus music awww L

·         Delights in denying me seeing fireworks at the show even though she knows I am particularly partial to that which is shiny and or sparkly and or loud and poppy…

No Fireworkz =  >:(

·         Can’t find ATM’s to save herself

·         Can 80’s dance like a badass

·         She’s a wizard she’s a champ, and she doesn’t need a lamp

Fin

Why Threes?

This is the "third", the tone which decides whether a chord is minor or major.

Records 33 1/3

Orion’s belt (3 stars)

Jesus resurrected after 3 days

Jesus dies when 33

Holy trinity

Love, Hate, Indifference

Mother, father, child. 3 Is the number of family

Beginning middle end in narrative

Heaven, Hell, Earth

Born, live, die

3 lines of blues (1-4-5)

Army navy air force

Land sea air

Pregnancy 9 months 3 trimesters of 3 months each

Black grey white

Primary colours

Negative positive 0

Each season lasts 3 months

Births, deaths, mariages

Solid liquid gas

3 laws of motion : velocity, distance, time

3 dimensions of space length width depth

3 dimensions of time past present future

3 wishes

On the count of three

3^rd time lucky

3^rd times a charm

Death comes in threes

In grammar there a 3 persons 1^st person (narrators point of view about whats happening to themeselves), 2^nd person (narrators point of view about whats happening to others), 3^rd person (all knowing, detached god like narrator view about everything that’s happening).

Thought idea action

Intro body conclusion

Animal mineral vegetable

3 is a number of unity. 3 is a nember of perfection and creation. Although 1 stands for the creative force (ie of one person who is capable of creating), three, representing the acting of the intelligent principal on matter, stands for the act of creation. Person who can create+the intelligence to create = creation.

Three is the number of the totality of time past present future

It is the number of completion of actions beginning middle end

3 is the basis of magical/religious doctrine, it supposes an intelligent cause

When we read we being with ABC when we sing we begin with doe rae mi…

The tripartite vision is so ancient in Indo-European myth, religion and folklore that there is no tracking its origins. By the time of written documents it already has an infinite history. To Pythagoras, three is the perfect number, implying beginning, middle and end. It is the attribute of deity, and ultimately of the trinity. Graves’ primordial White goddess is a triple deity, presiding over sky, earth and underworld. Greek religion recognises the tripartite rule of the universe and assigns a deity to each part: Jupiter to heaven, Neptune to the sea, Pluto to Hades. - Paul Fussel