Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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Per chance a first for Lazy Sunday.
Another election, another time warp.
Beautiful weather in Adelaide – a little rain, more sunshine.
The gravtar sleeps
Bliss.
The Annie Leibovitz exhibition in Sydney was very good, very powerful. Extraordinary pictures of Susan Sontag, in her final illnesses and death. Also her family shots. Painfully, sorrowfully intimate. The famous pics were all there too. Go see it if you get the chance.
Making my “cheats” one-pot lamb biryani for dinner (with enough for lunches during the week).
Went to The Corner Hotel in Richmond to see The Hollowmen and the rest of the Punters Club reunion. Billy Baxter and friends still have it.
I’ll bet that was a pretty awesome show Craig.
I decided I just couldn’t afford it, with a heavy heart.
I know this is a Queensland site,but just got off a real estate site of Wellington N.S.W. A lovely town, where my mother had a boyfriend after my Dad passed away.The prices make me feel lucky.I don’t trust that feeling very much at all,although oppurtunity can happen to people like myself,I suppose.I do feel,I am owed millions of dollars,but sucking the air everyday ,I notice a complete lack of communications often from those who use me.On better pay than I have ever seen in my whole life. So I continued to make a few improvements to my life today. Rolled out alfoil over the plastic bubble stuff[everything sold comes complete with this plastic] that I have placed in my refrigerator so I can store more as shelving.Got a plastic peg thing and attached it to flat bread plastic bags they come in as Lebanese stuff and then hung such in the fridge.Thus proving to myself at least,a better storage option than flat.Vertical wins the day! Struggled an eternity less daylight,with a creative kinetic-whirligig thingo concept and was amused at what I was dreaming up.Getting the right mechanical sway remains a difficulty. Whilst some associate whirligigs with U.S.A.homosexuality,I am interested in this art form simply to combine thrown away bits and pieces with some sort of interesting doing..Combined also today, WD40 with Rice Bran Oil to stop a whole lot of things I recovered from the tip.Now how to puncture a can safely for an idea I have.Must try YouTube on that.Did think Rice Bran oil could be used as emergency fuel in the pressure pack.Anyone tried something like that!? Need ,however a new supply of plastic frame compasses at a very low price,to not only draw circles in combinations of movements ,but to establish mechanical movement connections ,via usage of skewers attached to them.Running out of space a bit in this bedroom.F. the rest of the house.
Sowed 10kgs of grass seeds yesterday and raking it in, while listening to the reggae/ska/roots collection on my itunes on shuffle and full blast. No not on headphones, such are the pleasures of living in the sticks. Da local
boyz were slammin it for me or maybe I am just biased. Thou standout track I listened to was Hine-Te-Ihorangi from my latest Songlines sampler, off the just released award nominated album Wai from NZ’s band Ora.
Today watering and watching the grass grow, while loading my whole Herbie Hancock CD collection onto itunes and listening to it at a more relaxed volume. In the afternoon I had to cut a bunch of banana. The tree fell over as the bunch was too heavy. Had to refrained myself from doing a Harry Belafonte. Ehh Oh, eh eh oh ……
Fascinated, how is that community garden going this time of the year? Have you got a link to follow it up?
It has been a rather odd weekend. I saw for the first time and animated shows featuring the characters of Ricky Gervais. Stephen(?) Merchant and Karl Pilkington.
The format is three guys talking, or at least two of them listening and one of them — Pilkington — uttering in a stream of conscious format a series of ruminations that are part urban legend and part flights of fancy. It’s actually surprisingly engaging, and works best when the nonsense uttered by Pilkington is just credible enough to force you to work to unpick it.
My viewing was interrupted by a call from my elder son in Bristol in the UK over skype. Junior hailed us over and we began chatting. It turned out that our interant had a friend with him who, as it turned out, reminded me a lot of Pilkington’s character. When the subject of visting him in Bristol arose I pointed to the cost of airfares — more that $2k each.
His friend said:
Yeah that’s totally whack. Like, you know how the world turns and shit?
Me: Uh huh …
Well what if they built a rocket or some sort of missile …
Me: Uh huh …
Yea and everyone got into it and the thing got fired 500 miles up and then kinda just hung about until the part of the planet with England in it got underneath and then it just splashed down in the Atlantic or something. Then it would only take about 10 hours right? So they’d save a bundle in fuel.
Clearly a deep thinker, but I did have some trouble keeping a straight face.
“Sowed 10kgs of grass seeds yesterday and raking it in”
Shit that’s a fast turnaround.
Festival of speed. Good first attempt.
Fran, I dimly remember similar conversations from 40 years ago, when I smoked a lot more weed than I do now. In your position, I’d be quizzing your son (and his guest) about the drugs they’re ingesting.
Give that lad some credit Fran.
You are just not up with the latest technology .
Punters Club. Saw a band there which was the leftover remnants of the corpse grinders (from adelaide)and … don’t know who. The lead singer fell off the stage and landed on his coccyx on the edge. I expected an ambulance call. He didn’t miss a beat with his lyrics, something to do with his dilated pupils, perhaps. He was doing great grungy rock’n'roll though. The place was a true scene in the late 80′s.
These reminiscences (type that after a few home ales!) lead me to think of other funny gigs at the storey bridge hotel in Brisbayne (poets night on wednesdays, my unreliable memory tells me)before the expo. Someone will have show interest for me to type it out.
Ahem, couch grass that is FDB. It needed to be raked into the soil and the reggae was just a good rhythm to work to. In hindsight an unfortunate turn of phrase after my outing on the other thread.
Saturday – Reading and taking notes from Charles Royster’s A Revolutionary People at War. Spent the latter part of the day researching and writing a blog post on the history of the China North Korea relationship. Saturday night watched that spy show on ABC.
Sunday. Bit of time on LP. More reading as above. watched the Magda Zubanski family history, Little Britain. More reading and note taking. Seem to have got my set top box working again. Think, ultimately, the problems with it were weather related.
You see the typos after you’ve submitted. Yee ha.
I’m following with interest the Irish fallout of the bank bailout.The most succinct summary I’ve come across states thus:
A bunch of English, German and French bankers (read bond holders, I’ve been trying to research these) lent a lot of money, under no coercion, to Irish banks. The Irish banks cannot repay the loans. These bondholders should now lose their money. However, Now the Irish taxpayer has to bail them out.
People like my parents fancy themselves as stockmarket players. How do you invest in bank bonds that have to be bailed out? Any corrections to this viewpoint?
Typed a wonderful description of band antics at the punters club and storey bridge hotel which would have made sense of the last comment. Moderation? Oh Well….
Jesus, posting can be a devil of a thing on a fast moving blog. Slow down the lot of you!
That did occur to me but it’s not something you can directly ask.
Ootz said:
Apparently not, but at 100 times the price I thought too expensive, I won’t be rushing out to do it.
Yeah, I was just being whimsical Ootz. 10kg of seeds would be quite a thing.
Wrong season anyway FDB. 10kgs equal about 1000m2 around my doomstead. It is currently pi..ing down with a monsoonal thunderstorm and I am having kittens. Hope it does not all end up in the creek, tempted to check out with the torch. I planned to do it a month earlier, but when you are not well, things have to wait.
Are you still on crutches, how long till you can kick the high hat again?
Oh, I meant Little Island. Anyway it was wonderful. Its late at night, I’m too tired to read and I’m obviously not thinking straight. Will have to go and have a sleep or I’ll be too tired tomorrow. Hell, it is tomorrow. Oh, well.
Crutches till Christmas unfortunately.
I’m going to have a crack at high hat pedal at the next gig in a week though – with no painkillers to be sure I don’t screw it up.
I spent most of yesterday removing blu-tack and then painting the walls where it was lurking. The bedroom looks much better. Second coat today!
“Went to The Corner Hotel in Richmond to see The Hollowmen and the rest of the Punters Club reunion. Billy Baxter and friends still have it.”
I was so in love with Billy Baxter back in the day.
Fine: Even Paul Kelly was!
I spent the afternoon and early evening attending my workplace on a quiet day. Learnt that the cost of getting married in an 1800-year-old Shinto shrine that’s twice as large as one of Brisbane’s main cathedrals and, according to legend, was established by the Empress Jingu — is the princely sum of AUD $360.
And Commander J. J. Adams died.
the Catallaxy clowns think QE2 is printing money.
oh dear.
let us quote Jim Hamilton
“Bunny: Why do they call it the quantitative easing? Why don’t they just call it printing money?
JDH: Actually no money is going to be printed. The Fed will pay for these purchases by crediting accounts that banks have with the Fed. Although it is true that banks could ask to withdraw these funds in the form of green currency, they currently are showing no interest in doing so. And before banks did start to want to withdraw these funds as money, the Fed plans to sell the assets off to bring the reserves back in. There is no plan now or in the future to “print a ton of money”.
No wonder they are both clueless and wrong all the time
Homer, what people at Catallaxy think about quantitative easing is not related to what you did on Sunday.
If you must discuss goings-on at a blog you’ve been banned from, under a new pseudonym, at a blog you’ve also been banned from, then do it in the Saturday Salon open thread.
oh shucks I think being banned for writing about chapter 3 of the latest IMF report is good enuff for me particularly when the people do not even understand basic monetary economics Uncle Milt advocated for Japan back in 2000.
but then facts and catallaxy never cross
Homer has never been banned from LP. He has been permamodded in the past, but that’s a different thing.
/derail
Incorrect.
Chris Shiel, he of silly Rollings Stones adoration ( the Who was a much better band) banned me for supporting EP when he was stupidly banned for being funny.
Hence my infamous title at the time Bring back EP at LP.
This was just as stupid as Sinclair Davidson banning me for suggesting chapter 3 of the latest IMF report completely demolished classical economics as it did. note NO talk of it at Catallaxy.)
Mind you he did not allow people to comment there who showed him up to the the consistently inaccurate person he is as was shown over the Abbott Afghanistan debacle.
He of course NEVER said he was wrong in contrast to Ken Parish who freely admitted at Tripp after reviewing the facts.
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Here be the shrine.
It has nothing to do with international finance or Catallaxy, and has nothing to do with the last steam-powered transatlantic ocean liner.
Yes I agree FDB each as as stupid as the other
Terangeree – I’m getting a 4-page blank pdf
@FDB, it works fine for me.
Try doing a search for “nunakuma jinja”, it’s the first result in G. Ooogle.
Comes up as a link already visited in the results, and same content-free pdf.
I’m sure it’s my browser/font-library/general-run-of-luck-lately that’s at fault.
@FDB:
Would you like me to email my computer to you (although this particular apple is looking somewhat the worse for wear, after having been dropped about four metres from the footplate of a locomotive to land on the ballast beside the track)?
I got a blank to terangeree and was asked if I wanted to download a further Adobe application. Said no.