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Monday, 2 November 2026

Funny Money

When cyber money is stolen 
what disappears from where?
And where does it (whatever it is) go?

The 'it' is a series of ones and noughts
that their programmers have declared online
to 'constitute a currency', though no state backs it.
These ones and noughts attract real life currencies 
that states and banks do back through their reserves
thus depleting the supply of real currency to real people
and luring ordinary folk away from everyday reality.

But for gamblers the gamble is said to be 'worth it'.

These digital currencies are likely to be stolen
by states that are blacklisted, banned from trading,
by international decree for deeds they deny doing,
where countries across the world are not buying the denial.

So the theft-thru-trade of cyber money that they perform
is as near as they can get to any sort of internatinal currency,
whilst alarming those for whom their modern day currency
is their internet securiy which is said to be so secure
that the left hand and mind does not know what key,
on the keypad, the right hand is pressing when it types.

Such security is the ultimate in assuredness in a world
where the online life creates it's own shadows and ghosts,
it's thieves of wealth and peace of mind which was never as secure
as the inventors of all these systems claimed in the first place.
 

Sunday, 1 November 2026

Picture Set Of The Month - November - The Paintings Of Gerard Dillon

'Untitled', watercolour and ink is one of over 1000 paintings
and works on paper by Gerard Dillon, probably depicting
his beloved Roundstone in Connemara. 
'Man with Accordion - Connemara' as painted by Gerard Dillon,
for whom Connemara in County Galway was his 'home territory'
from which to draw characters from the mid 1940s onward.

'FullMoon over The Bog' by Gerard Dillon is one Dillon's many
landscapes that explain his love of place which would make the viewer
see that place and past seem still attractive.



'On the Beach' as painted in 1950 shows Dillon with one of his closeest friends
at the time in as near a position of near sexual intimacy and trust as he could 
in the era in which Dillon painted. Alas when his friend married
the friendship was rent assunder, never to be restored.