Monsanto Mutants and Other Monsters

The Izzie has now got nearly three goblin free weeks. Not back to work until Monday 14th which means lots of nanowrimo squiggling time, planting weeds and watching the antics of one Betty Windsor

There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.


One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars


The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way

Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)

We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.

Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob

But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.

Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.


You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?

Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.

Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians

Monsanto Mutants and Other Monsters

The Izzie has now got nearly three goblin free weeks. Not back to work until Monday 14th which means lots of nanowrimo squiggling time, planting weeds and watching the antics of one Betty Windsor

There should be no shortage of inspiration whatsoever.


One of the most entertaining aspects of the whole nanowrimo business is the rivalry between Izzie's home region and and another that shall remain nameless for the present.
Officially it is a competition to get the highest total word count, per capita word count and the most donors. In reality a big part of the annual ritual is taunting, baiting and insulting each other in order to scramble their puny brains and destroy their will to write. It's a proud old Aussie tradition known here as sledging and is more usually seen in cricket than in word wars


The corn munching critters had always been the winners until last year. The folks here in Dursleyville intend to keep it that way

Izzie's constantly snarking about corn munching monsanto mutants and their sad dreary diet of high fructose corn syrup and Roundup. Also suggested that DeKalbian would make such a perfect name for a villain (or a race of strange space aliens a la Cardassians and Klingons as another forum member suggested)

We are also all fond of offering shipments of Tim Tams and all sorts of Australian creepy crawlies to keep them on their toes. Cute and cuddly cane toads and white pointer sharks are some of the wonderful wildlife on offer.

Decided to add a bit of spice to the usual snark by consulting the Oracle of Google for some background information. Digging up dirt so to say
Nearly had hysterical fits of the giggles. The City of DeKalb Illinois' main claim to fame is the 'invention' of barbed wire. Well they patented it at least. Turns out that patenting of all sorts of strange things is a bit of a specialty of this mob

But the offerings of the Oracle of Google just got juicier and juicier.
Amongst all those golden fields of corn were all sorts of dirty dark secrets. The DeKalbian corn is so crazily mutated that it's even got wings
Oh and the serpent has got a nose for a certain spooky ever so innocent looking logo. Amongst all the happy farming families, it is lurking there being scary. Looks like the "Monsanto family" owns the whole show. They are doing their damnedest to sneak in here too with their weeds and all with the help of the local state government.

Maybe Izzie should send over some Diggers seed catalogues. That will scare the hell out of them.


You really can meet all kinds of freaks on Facebook. Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague. With friends like those, who needs enemies?

Meanwhile musing that Betty Windsor and all the commonwealth big wigs must be impressed with the show we have put on for them. Rain and thunderstorms and lots of big fat white pointer sharks with very sharp teeth. The poor buggers in the tourism agencies must be pulling out their hair and gnashing their teeth.
Meanwhile the rain is just the perfect excuse for planting more tomatoes, sunflowers and chili seeds with not a hybrid or monsanto mutant seed in sight.

Must be off. Back to baiting those barbed wire munching barbarians