How FHM’s Captain Beer Lost 67kg (Gord Laws Archive: 2010)
A lot of people ask me how I lost 67kg in 2009/10. These days, I’m very hesitant to “prescribe” diets. But, in May 2010, I wrote a feature article in FHM SA (RIP) detailing the exact specifics of the training and dieting regimen that got me from 158kg to 90kg in 14 months. For the full […]
Hail to the Bird
Oh, Mighty Hen of Glory!Oh, bird of flightless mirth!I’ll sing the world your story!To recognise your worth! From skies above they cast you down,They treated you unfair.They struck you down upon the groundAnd you were then stuck there. For thirteen seconds, you did fly,A record was then set.It was a gallant, fearless try.One we will […]
Poised To Stop To Break To Resume To Fail To Go Nowhere But Here (2008)
Another old, unstructured one from my early days of putting poems out into the world. It’s kind of frantic and haphazard, but there’s imagery I love in here. It’s about a few random things that happened over a weekend with good friends. Including a crush I developed in the night. Poised To Stop To Break […]
You (2007)
A goodbye-poem I wrote for Tamar; the lovely girl I dated from 1999 (when I was 17 in Matric) until 2006 (when I was 25, had finished two qualifications and worked full-time for two years). We broke up amicably, mutually and on good terms. She’s getting married soon, and I think the world of her. […]
To Be a Man (2007)
A rather long, but entirely sincere blog I wrote detailing my thoughts on “manhood”. In 2007, I had a completely different job, there was almost 160kg of me, and my outlook was very different. This piece is rough, the grammar’s imperfect, but it reminds me of how it felt to be me back then. To […]
It’s Good (2008)
A poem that marks one of the first days I ever felt real hope. It was a few months before I properly started the mission that led to my losing 67kg. It was just a silly little note I banged out on Facebook, trying to put outlines on a new feeling I was trying to […]
Suck It Up (2008)
Another early, angry little rant from the early days of writing these things in a public forum. This one was actually me freestyle rhyming (“rapping”) in my head at work. I liked it, so I tried to take down as much of the rhyme as I could remember. Glad I did. It’s suitably mid-twenties angsty, […]
It is What You Are. You Have No Choice But to Be. So Be. (2006)
Another very early, kind-of-haphazard poem of mine. I really like the sentiment and some of the imagery, even if the structure and flow leave something to be desired. I also hope that I still believe the message. I remember life being so tough and, on paper, crap back then. But I was optimistic and happy. […]
Busting the Ill Shit (A Ramble Without a Plan) (2008)
Ha ha! I really enjoyed this one. It’s a lot of fun. Entirely frivolous, which was – if I recall correctly – entirely the point. I haven’t read this since around about the time I wrote it, and I really enjoyed reading it now. Busting the Ill Shit (A Ramble Without a Plan) I will […]
[TRACK 01 – ARTIST – SONG 01] (2008)
I really like this one, even if it’s very dark. I summised it at the time with a little disclaimer on Facebook telling my friends that I was okay, and that I was just trying to use words to “paint picture of a feeling I have sometimes.” This painting is pretty vivid to me, and […]
Xerox (2008)
I wrote this one a plane, coming back from Mexico, thinking about something I was rather fixated with at the time; identity. I like the extended food metaphor, and the internet references. Still pretty valid today, I think. It’s kinda goofy, but kinda poignant. A little juvenile, but I like it. Xerox You’ve selected all […]
The Bottom (2008)
This is one of my all-time favourites, even if it is very dark and very personal. Every time I read it, it takes me back to what might be the darkest feeling I’ve ever felt. I was so angry, literally dying of obesity, trapped in my body and only slightly more angry than I was […]
Welcome to GordLaws.co.za
My very own website. It’s about time! Welcome to gordlaws.co.za, where you’ll find a (hopefully rapidly increasing) collection of my voice samples, creative writing, news, poems and musings on life. I hope you enjoy your stay. Please come again.
Toon: “Puff the Magik, Dragon” by Gord Laws (2003)
A really old toon I drew and painted whilst studying at Vega back in 2003. I’ve aways been really fond of it. Brings back good memories of a time when life was…w ell, simpler. You can tell it’s old; I would never, ever deliberately spell “magik” with a K for “effect” these days. Nor do I […]