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Sep 29, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

OK so where's the kickstarter for this scooter?

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You are enjoying this way too much, JB. And look, you’ve already got a crowdfunding platform in place… Just saying.

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I’m way ahead of you, T. Just waiting on a little civilization Collapse

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It's coming all too soon.

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Sep 30, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

love that the kickstarter campign reads "I promised to roast old Sooty over a coal fire if someone would pay for my carbon offsets and travelling expenses" the cooking him over coal- chef's kiss.

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Not a wind turbine creating enough energy to keep a electric element going, as well as a bit left over to turn the spit?

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Sep 30, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

So Good.

I have to keep telling myself this is fiction.

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Sep 30, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

So looking forward to the description of the explosion as all the accumulated sub-cutaneous coal dust ignites.

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This is a great idea!

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Sep 29, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

Sooty caravan - brilliant choice for first sooty 🤣🤣🤣

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Sep 29, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

Oooooh I hope Sooty suffers

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Yeah. Let it be excruciating.

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Sep 29, 2023Liked by John Birmingham

Ahh Sooty.....

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Too much of the ring of potential. The grass on my acreage is all but dead, my water tank barely half full and it's only just spring. This episode has made me teary.

On the other hand, I await with the glee of revenge for Sooty's fate.

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Loved it. And nice little quote from Unforgiven.

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I'm relishing this. That wild high power you must be orbiting on as you circle and eliminate these callous destroyers of Mother Earth. Don't want to add unnecessary pressure, but I would so enjoy a satisfying cataclysmic ending for Onion Man.

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Sooty? It was him, really? What I heard, it wasn't the Thwaites meltdown that did for him. He got crisped in a bonfire of the vanities fuelled by his pet lump of coal, is what I heard.

Lucky for Scomo he was on a book promo tour in the US at that time.

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