Dean Whitbread

@dfrw.bsky.social

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writer, podcaster, musician, artist, son of a teacher and a printer

PUSH - A real story from Highbury, Islington
… Kurt Vonnegut then spoke to me, and I understood immediately something that was about to change us … We were all about to become totally fascinated by both conceptual and actual possibilities - not all bad, not all good; but we needed to understand it …
I don’t remember ever asking for a budgerigar – in fact, the very first thing I ever asked for was a dragon, because of the cat that used to sleep on my feet in the pram. I think the budgie was another family addition designed to lift my mood and prove my viability as a functioning human.
In desperation he began to pray. He was rusty, he didn’t know anything about the god to whom he was conducting his prayer. He half-believed he was wasting time creating a slender thread of hope which would only disappoint him later, when all that threatened to fail had failed. But he prayed anyway, beginning with the Lord’s Prayer. Years previously, in a dream, he had experienced panic in the face of some unknown deadly danger of a supernatural kind. In true horror film style he had tried to recite the Lord’s Prayer to protect himself, and realised he couldn’t remember it. “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” was as far as his memory took him.
Real Funk Cat
Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics. Some rabbits are smart and others less so. They sit in a bar, which has old-fashioned, wooden tables with candles, wondering how they are going to get through this. To one side are small rabbits, looking concerned as the grown ups discuss their futures."
Podcasthon 2025 This is a “SHORT” runninng to 30 minutes and dedicated to the many who appreciate the Pod of Funk, alongside those who follow the international podcast collective action curated by Podcasthon.org. Powered by funky eclectic grooves and piloted by Deek Deekster, the world’s favourite funk podcast launches its best quickie into the funk heavens. As it assumes geostationary orbit, feel the funk create a better world, a world you no longer dreamed was possible. My people, your people, all the people in the world who are oppressed by the appalling state of humanity, the fragility of nature, bad food, spite, aggression, lack of amity, endless poverty, mindless greed, nugatory utterances from politicians, lies, lies, lies, joyless poverty, shameful exploitation, and no decent funk. This last one is the one I am able to correct, and I live my life in the knowledge that I have the funk, and I can give the funk to all those who need it. For it is written: “Blessed be the funky, And the unfunky, They too shall be blessed, Just less funky.” Tracklist to follow.
Liam Dutton trying to express the sheer danger of Storm Éowyn which we must all beware, and offer sweet things to make it calm lest we all die
Dean squints in the lens, the future, these people now, other people arriving, thinking about the repercussions, the joy, the gifts, the [your text here]