SheepOverboard is about essays reflective of the world reflected within. Traditional essays obsessing about self in these selfish times.
The domain name was conceived in 2003 during an immigration-emigration crisis.
Illegals from the Middle East aboard failing unseaworthy boats accused falsely – for political advantage – of throwing their children overboard to complicate capture by Coast Guard. In a converse operation, live sheep exported in eminently seaworthy ships, with odd symmetry refused entry to their middle-east destination for politico-religious advantage. Also, some kerfuffle about unhealthy ones being thrown overboard.
Both incidents belabored themselves interminably in the headlines to the exclusion of all other news, in exception to media’s alleged short attention span. At the welcome end only an exhausted concept rattled around in this newstainment-addled head .. sheep overboard.
Within the first few inaugural essays narcissism, well established in the ageing editor, threatened to infect the site. Desperate expedience created authors whose specialties lay beyond the editor’s expertise. Hence the impressive masthead – and the flaky nature of their product.
Let me introduce them ..
The Editor
Poignantly if not melodramatically outlined in here, he wishes to remain anonymous, simply because she is a coward. If someone wishes to purchase SheepOverboard for a $million or so, she will happily reveal all.
Bruce
This chap has been all over the place and relishes hard targets for article or exposé. You’ll find his name on the silliest of soliloquys, though sometimes others just shove on this table what they’re ashamed to publish. Bruce is inspired by the universal Australian ‘Bruce’ – but he’s not in charge of the sheep dip. That honor falls to Ewen.
Ewen Shearer
Ewen is extremely disappointed that his joke name (ewe, female sheep, shearer ..) was readily found on the Internet as a real name owned by many others. God, some ancestors couldn’t spell to save their lineage. He would like to explain that sheep dip is not for embellishing crackers and crisps. Oh, no no no no. Before his stint at SheepOverboard, Ewen shone brightly at Ovine Times and Wooly Thinkers’ Weekly. Mr. Shearer was founding editor of Ewe’s News.
Jake Mossback
Jake is a vet of the Hill and we’re proud to have his bullshit detector gracing the front grill of this sheepmobile. Jake’s bio is compulsory reading for all you wannabee embeds.
Brud Broder
Talk about nigga. Brud moves to and ‘fro in that wonderful misunderstood mayo-free hood of the African American, whatever those two words mean. Brud’s unique approach to the arts – lovingly coined “De Arts” in our menu – promises distinction for SheepOverboard as a finely critiquing pinnacle publication, the epitome of epistemological emphasis on ephemera we call ART. Or as Brud would eloquently encapsulate, “wtf dis honky shit.”
Dextre
Very few – I would venture none – can claim AI on the staff. Except perhaps robot-run scraper websites. But that’s like comparing a VIC-20 to Big Blue. Dextre arrives fresh from NASA and the Canada Arm folk .. what’s their name? He spun himself off as a roaming subroutine with enough algorithms to grow and reinvent himself like some von Neumann skunk works. Dextre’s no cyberbot, either. The Internet – aka cyberspace – is teaming with the obsessive little bastards – spidering websites, trawling for email addys, trying to infect web pages. Dextre is only too willing to take R&R on our mainframe.
Dr. Colin
We have a real scientist on staff. Colin simply adores the perplexing side of the universe. The laws of nature are an unbounded freedom to his special way of appreciating life, the universe, and everything. Colin is, we understand, 42 years old and has always been.
