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So the Age has decreed that speculation about Gillard taking over from Rudd has been ‘overhyped’. As the Fairfax press has been breathlessly pushing this line for weeks, it’s hardly surprising. Pity the Age is an irony-free zone.
So the Age has decreed that speculation about Gillard taking over from Rudd has been ‘overhyped’. As the Fairfax press has been breathlessly pushing this line for weeks, it’s hardly surprising. Pity the Age is an irony-free zone.
This weekend I watched WALL-E twice through. I’ve not seen it since it was in the cinemas. It is an amazing work of animation. How Ben Burtt lost the sound and sound editing oscars to Slumdog Millionaire (Ok, maybe) and The Dark Knight (you must be kidding, big conventional action movie) is just short of a joke. The film is a stunner.
This weekend I watched WALL-E twice through. I’ve not seen it since it was in the cinemas. It is an amazing work of animation. How Ben Burtt lost the sound and sound editing oscars to Slumdog Millionaire (Ok, maybe) and The Dark Knight (you must be kidding, big conventional action movie) is just short of a joke. The film is a stunner.
I had a tiny victory with my Japanese this week; I got invited to join an online group who are into translating Japanese role-playing games, one of which I’ve been reading and posting on my blog. It’s not much of a victory, but it represents some kind of recognition of my reading skills (which are still far from good). I’m slowly amassing a vocabulary of completely useless words. The phrase “blessing of the lord” is so completely useless in Japan, why would anyone learn it?
So today I added a bit of translation to my blog; for my next trick, I’m cleaning out the mice that my partner bought this week, before she buggered off to Tokyo on a business trip and left me to clean up their poo…
I had a tiny victory with my Japanese this week; I got invited to join an online group who are into translating Japanese role-playing games, one of which I’ve been reading and posting on my blog. It’s not much of a victory, but it represents some kind of recognition of my reading skills (which are still far from good). I’m slowly amassing a vocabulary of completely useless words. The phrase “blessing of the lord” is so completely useless in Japan, why would anyone learn it?
So today I added a bit of translation to my blog; for my next trick, I’m cleaning out the mice that my partner bought this week, before she buggered off to Tokyo on a business trip and left me to clean up their poo…
Really quite weekend. Mostly note-taking from Vol. 4 of Naval Documents of the American Rewvolution.
Concocted a dish over the weekend which was a combination of chicken honey stir fry, boiled rice/chicken/Italian tomato/vegetable stockpot. Very nice.
very cold at night.
Really quite weekend. Mostly note-taking from Vol. 4 of Naval Documents of the American Rewvolution.
Concocted a dish over the weekend which was a combination of chicken honey stir fry, boiled rice/chicken/Italian tomato/vegetable stockpot. Very nice.
very cold at night.
Out there
There’s a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There’s a slick town, Barnaby
Out there
Full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby…
Put on your Sunday clothes, there’s lots of world out there!
Get out the brillantine and dime cigars.
We’re gonna find adventure in the evening air!
Girls in white
In a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars!
Put on your Sunday clothes, we’re gonna ride through town,
In one of those new horsedrawn open cars.
We’ll see the shows
At Delmonico’s
And we’ll close the town in a whirl;
And we won’t come home until we’ve kissed a girl!
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out!
Strut down the street and have your picture took.
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about!
That Sunday shine
Is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile!
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes.
Get out your feathers,
Your patent leathers
Your beads and buckles and bows,
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out,
Strut down the street and have your picture took.
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about,
That Sunday shine,
is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile!
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes.
Get out your feathers,
Your patent leathers,
Your beads and buckles and bows
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Beneath your bowler brim the world’s a simple song!
A lovely lilt that makes you tilt your nose.
Get out your slickers,
your flannel knickers
Your red suspenders and hose,
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Put on your Sunday clothes there’s lots of world out there!
Put on your silk cravat and patent shoes.
We’re gonna find adventure in the evening air!
To town we’ll trot,
To a smoky spot,
Where the girls are hot as a fuse!
Put on your silk high hat and at the turned up cuff,
We’ll wear a hand made grey suede buttoned glove.
We’ll join the Astors,
At Tony Pastor’s
And this I’m positive of-
That we won’t come home,
That we won’t come home -
No we won’t come home until we fall in love!
Out there
There’s a world outside of Yonkers
Way out there beyond this hick town, Barnaby
There’s a slick town, Barnaby
Out there
Full of shine and full of sparkle
Close your eyes and see it glisten, Barnaby
Listen, Barnaby…
Put on your Sunday clothes, there’s lots of world out there!
Get out the brillantine and dime cigars.
We’re gonna find adventure in the evening air!
Girls in white
In a perfumed night
Where the lights are bright as the stars!
Put on your Sunday clothes, we’re gonna ride through town,
In one of those new horsedrawn open cars.
We’ll see the shows
At Delmonico’s
And we’ll close the town in a whirl;
And we won’t come home until we’ve kissed a girl!
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out!
Strut down the street and have your picture took.
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about!
That Sunday shine
Is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile!
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes.
Get out your feathers,
Your patent leathers
Your beads and buckles and bows,
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and out,
Strut down the street and have your picture took.
Dressed like a dream your spirits seem to turn about,
That Sunday shine,
is a certain sign
That you feel as fine as you look!
Beneath your parasol, the world is all a smile!
That makes you feel brand new down to your toes.
Get out your feathers,
Your patent leathers,
Your beads and buckles and bows
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Beneath your bowler brim the world’s a simple song!
A lovely lilt that makes you tilt your nose.
Get out your slickers,
your flannel knickers
Your red suspenders and hose,
For there’s no blue Monday in your Sunday clothes!
Put on your Sunday clothes there’s lots of world out there!
Put on your silk cravat and patent shoes.
We’re gonna find adventure in the evening air!
To town we’ll trot,
To a smoky spot,
Where the girls are hot as a fuse!
Put on your silk high hat and at the turned up cuff,
We’ll wear a hand made grey suede buttoned glove.
We’ll join the Astors,
At Tony Pastor’s
And this I’m positive of-
That we won’t come home,
That we won’t come home -
No we won’t come home until we fall in love!
Punctures, punctures, and more damn punctures. That and re-watching the British TV series Spooks. Like 24, it’s such a show of its time.
Have we seen the Great Recession equivalent yet?
Punctures, punctures, and more damn punctures. That and re-watching the British TV series Spooks. Like 24, it’s such a show of its time.
Have we seen the Great Recession equivalent yet?
I’m off to China and Mongolia on Wednesday. Going horse-riding on the endless Mongolian plains, which is exciting and scary. So, I’ve been spending the weekend packing and re-packing. To think I’ll be away from a computer for two weeks. That feels thrilling and anxiety inducing at the same time.
I’m off to China and Mongolia on Wednesday. Going horse-riding on the endless Mongolian plains, which is exciting and scary. So, I’ve been spending the weekend packing and re-packing. To think I’ll be away from a computer for two weeks. That feels thrilling and anxiety inducing at the same time.
Fine, that sounds incredibly awesome – though pretty intimidating.
Pack some Imodium
Fine, that sounds incredibly awesome – though pretty intimidating.
Pack some Imodium
Fine, detailed report when you come back please.
Went on the REfugees are welcome march in Melbourne – Cool-ish rainy day but not too bad. We walked from the State Library up through Carlton to Fitzroy, the reverse of the usual riot tradition (ie down to Flinders st).
To the grinning fool in the window on Nicholson st who actually went to the trouble to crayon up a swastika: Fuck you sunshine.
Still coming down from the sheer awesomeness of Dan Sultan at the Forum Theatre on Friday night!
Fine, detailed report when you come back please.
Went on the REfugees are welcome march in Melbourne – Cool-ish rainy day but not too bad. We walked from the State Library up through Carlton to Fitzroy, the reverse of the usual riot tradition (ie down to Flinders st).
To the grinning fool in the window on Nicholson st who actually went to the trouble to crayon up a swastika: Fuck you sunshine.
Still coming down from the sheer awesomeness of Dan Sultan at the Forum Theatre on Friday night!
That sounds like aweseome fun, Fine!!!
That sounds like aweseome fun, Fine!!!
Played at the open mike stage at Northey Street Winter Solstice festival, and danced (or walked) around the bonfire afterwards.
Played at the open mike stage at Northey Street Winter Solstice festival, and danced (or walked) around the bonfire afterwards.
Wow everyone has had amazing weekends! Well done, sg, Sai Gon et al, and Fine that sounds _amazing_. Take lots of photos!
Wow everyone has had amazing weekends! Well done, sg, Sai Gon et al, and Fine that sounds _amazing_. Take lots of photos!
Finding that the news doesn’t reach my standards. Have decided to write all my own from scratch, starting with the launch of Asian New Service, The Asia Beat.
http://asiabeat.wordpress.com/
Finding that the news doesn’t reach my standards. Have decided to write all my own from scratch, starting with the launch of Asian New Service, The Asia Beat.
http://asiabeat.wordpress.com/
I worked. I assessed some very sad people. Please lobby your local members for increased funding for mental health … Am finishing the day with a very nice little merlot …
I worked. I assessed some very sad people. Please lobby your local members for increased funding for mental health … Am finishing the day with a very nice little merlot …
Drove a train back from Forest Hill yesterday. Editing videos and uploading them to Facebook today, followed by a spot of grocery shopping where I noticed that grapes in my local supermarket had a pricetag reading “$9.99 each.
Decided that I can no longer afford to eat grapes.
Drove a train back from Forest Hill yesterday. Editing videos and uploading them to Facebook today, followed by a spot of grocery shopping where I noticed that grapes in my local supermarket had a pricetag reading “$9.99 each.
Decided that I can no longer afford to eat grapes.
Thanks, Tyro Rex, we all need to do that!
I wrote a pome today after being hugely incensed with Insiders but since no one here seemed equally agitated I went across to Cafe Whispers and posted there where everyone was of like mind! I felt better after that and able to focus on the family.
We celebrated my son’s 46th birthday today here at my place which was great. My ten year old grandson, hearing that I planned to adapt a Black and Gold fruit cake with candles for the occasion, pointed out they still had several of Pop’s (my ex of four decades ago, dead now for just over a year) tinned fruit cakes and wouldn’t it be lovely to use one of those. It certainly was and we all toasted him along with Matt and remembered him fondly among other things for all his hoarding habits in later life.
My daughter mentioned too how his love of fruit cake went back to the early days of our marriage when I was a dab hand at making them. I’m sure that many of you have shared my sense of wonderment when grown children are seen to have emerged, not simply unscathed but the wiser for our experience.
Thanks, Tyro Rex, we all need to do that!
I wrote a pome today after being hugely incensed with Insiders but since no one here seemed equally agitated I went across to Cafe Whispers and posted there where everyone was of like mind! I felt better after that and able to focus on the family.
We celebrated my son’s 46th birthday today here at my place which was great. My ten year old grandson, hearing that I planned to adapt a Black and Gold fruit cake with candles for the occasion, pointed out they still had several of Pop’s (my ex of four decades ago, dead now for just over a year) tinned fruit cakes and wouldn’t it be lovely to use one of those. It certainly was and we all toasted him along with Matt and remembered him fondly among other things for all his hoarding habits in later life.
My daughter mentioned too how his love of fruit cake went back to the early days of our marriage when I was a dab hand at making them. I’m sure that many of you have shared my sense of wonderment when grown children are seen to have emerged, not simply unscathed but the wiser for our experience.
“Thanks, Tyro Rex, we all need to do that!”
That’s the show tune from “Hello, Dolly!” that WALL-E obsessively watches.
“Thanks, Tyro Rex, we all need to do that!”
That’s the show tune from “Hello, Dolly!” that WALL-E obsessively watches.
I was outdoors most of the weekend in beautiful Brisbane. Recently Jenny Woodward, filling in for Richard Fidler on local radio, initiated a Clouds of Brisbane photo competition. Results here.
I was outdoors most of the weekend in beautiful Brisbane. Recently Jenny Woodward, filling in for Richard Fidler on local radio, initiated a Clouds of Brisbane photo competition. Results here.
This was my second last Sunday in Canberra, after 32 years. Selling up and moving with ’100 things’ to Southport.
This was my second last Sunday in Canberra, after 32 years. Selling up and moving with ’100 things’ to Southport.
Who said miracles do not happen? Witness: Italy 1 v NZ 1. Admittedly, miracles are more likely in Soccer than most other sports. Who cares whether the goal from the All Whites was from an off side position – whatever that might mean. Italy may be slow starters but they need to get their act together fast now. Can they do it?
Who said miracles do not happen? Witness: Italy 1 v NZ 1. Admittedly, miracles are more likely in Soccer than most other sports. Who cares whether the goal from the All Whites was from an off side position – whatever that might mean. Italy may be slow starters but they need to get their act together fast now. Can they do it?
Meanwhile, in World Cup soccer news: nothing happened, yet again, for the millionth straight day. The founder of the sport, Samuel Beckett, was reached for comment but refused to say anything, in keeping with league protocol.
Also in soccer news, yet another grown man fell down on some soft, soft grass, and then proceeded to grimace and squirm in agony for like ten god-damn minutes.
Builds character, I guess.
Meanwhile, in World Cup soccer news: nothing happened, yet again, for the millionth straight day. The founder of the sport, Samuel Beckett, was reached for comment but refused to say anything, in keeping with league protocol.
Also in soccer news, yet another grown man fell down on some soft, soft grass, and then proceeded to grimace and squirm in agony for like ten god-damn minutes.
Builds character, I guess.
I had a lazy day recovering after an absolutely brilliant gig. I went out to a local underground punk venue and saw these girls play:
http://www.myspace.com/sleazyincoperated
They were a riot girl act out of Leipzig. They had a great stage presence plenty of rock moves to bust out. They were also fun to booze with post-gig!
I had a lazy day recovering after an absolutely brilliant gig. I went out to a local underground punk venue and saw these girls play:
http://www.myspace.com/sleazyincoperated
They were a riot girl act out of Leipzig. They had a great stage presence plenty of rock moves to bust out. They were also fun to booze with post-gig!
Didn’t that Italian actor dive in the last game they played as well? yesterday I did my daily walk up and over a ridge of the Wonderland Range. Bought a Norco mountain bike to replace the old “screamer” for my twice daily paddock rides with the deerhounds [no punctures there Robert thankfully]. This model, a Pinnacle, has a rigid back-end as opposed to the double sprung older model. Makes things a bit easier too in the sandy stretches. Then some work helping out next door before a look at a couple of dvds, nothing too exciting there.
Helen you manage to press buttons with your escapades, this time reminding me of my maternal Grandmothers rooming houses in Carlton and Fitzroy during and for a few years after WW2.
Didn’t that Italian actor dive in the last game they played as well? yesterday I did my daily walk up and over a ridge of the Wonderland Range. Bought a Norco mountain bike to replace the old “screamer” for my twice daily paddock rides with the deerhounds [no punctures there Robert thankfully]. This model, a Pinnacle, has a rigid back-end as opposed to the double sprung older model. Makes things a bit easier too in the sandy stretches. Then some work helping out next door before a look at a couple of dvds, nothing too exciting there.
Helen you manage to press buttons with your escapades, this time reminding me of my maternal Grandmothers rooming houses in Carlton and Fitzroy during and for a few years after WW2.
Immodium well and truly packed, Robert. Along with toilet paper and hard hat. Both ends sorted hopefully.
Immodium well and truly packed, Robert. Along with toilet paper and hard hat. Both ends sorted hopefully.
Amazing trip Fine.
Not sure where to post this one, but here’s as good as any.
The Female Anti- Rape Condom. Seriously
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/index.html?hpt=C2
Amazing trip Fine.
Not sure where to post this one, but here’s as good as any.
The Female Anti- Rape Condom. Seriously
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/20/south.africa.female.condom/index.html?hpt=C2
sublime cowgirl @ 25,
So the captured rapist kills his victim and pulls the condom out? South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
sublime cowgirl @ 25,
So the captured rapist kills his victim and pulls the condom out? South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
Bizarre, hey.
Bizarre, hey.