Archive for 2006

December 23, 2006

Missing someone else

I am up in Sydney for Christmas, and if you are in Melbourne and reading this, please dont rob my house. All the good gadgets are with me anyhow so there is nothing worth lifting. I am up here to spend Christmas with my mother and our extended family. This is the first time in about 7 years we will all be together and we are all looking forward to it I think. I came up here last night to spent the night with Paul. He is off to Canada to go skiing, which had been planned a long time …Read the Rest

Google brings me happiness again
December 22, 2006

Google brings me happiness again

I am flying in the face of my mate Scott on this opinion, and those who read his sensational blog will realise that this is not a wise maneuver. Scott is an ex-Marine, or Navy Seal or something. He is 3 parts bad temper, 2 parts foul mouth,  4 parts …Read the Rest

Sweeny Todds after your Peeny
December 20, 2006

Sweeny Todds after your Peeny

Being one of the un-mutilated, and having gone through the process of being teased about it at school only to go on to discover having some additional skin is actually a GOOD thing, imagine my horror at the recent news that circumcision actually helps to stop the spread of AIDS. …Read the Rest

Writing as surrogate for love
December 19, 2006

Writing as surrogate for love

Land-a-goshen Where has my head been at? For the last few months I have been very intermittent in my blogging, and I am sure that my loyal reader is sad over my absence. Mostly cause she calls me up and demands I start again. Initially my distraction was rebuilding Bill …Read the Rest

Peoples House
December 7, 2006

Peoples House

Last weekend I went on a get away from Sydney with Paul. We drove down the south coast of New South Wales visiting Jarvis Bay and stopping for the night at Batemans Bay . Both were really gorgeous and it was a pity we didn't have more time to spend …Read the Rest

Dating experience causes shockwaves in the Pacific
December 6, 2006

Dating experience causes shockwaves in the Pacific

Not something you hear about every day, the creation of a new island, but its going on right now. Somewhere in the Pacific, inside Tonga's Territorial waters, a new volcanic island is forming. A passing boat, the Maiken †, came across a field of floating pumice stone. A field that …Read the Rest

Wørd of the week – micrology
December 3, 2006

Wørd of the week – micrology

micrology [fr. Gk mikrolog�a : minute discussion, frivolity] /mahy KROL uh jee/ 1) attention to petty details or distinctions; nitpicking "Micrology registers the occurence of thought as the unthought that remains to be thought in the decline of grand philosophical thought." – David Rodowick, Reading the Figural, or Philosophy After …Read the Rest

Piles of money raining from on high – hard to resist
November 28, 2006

Piles of money raining from on high – hard to resist

The Cole Enquiry handed down its report yesterday and it was tabled in Parliament. The gnashing of teeth from the opposition was audible here in Melbourne as the Government and its Ministers were exonerated of any criminal charges. AWB and it leadership on the other hand have been dealt a …Read the Rest

Faggot cares more about the future of children
November 27, 2006

Faggot cares more about the future of children

Earlier this year our fearless Prime Minister, J'Ho, set up a panel of scientists, engineers and nuclear policy advisor's to look into the prospects of nuclear energy in Australia. Led by former nuclear physicist, and one time Government Employee/CEO of Telstra Dr Ziggy Switkowski the "Nuclear Task force" was charged …Read the Rest

Wørd of the week – schizothemia
November 26, 2006

Wørd of the week – schizothemia

After a bit of a break, Wørd of the week returns, with a word that could have been crafted just for me: Schizothemia from. Gk schizo-, from schizein, to split + thema, theme] A digression by means of a long reminiscence; repeated interruptions of a conversation by the speaker introducing …Read the Rest

Hair on end over Zune stupidity
November 23, 2006

Hair on end over Zune stupidity

Things have been a little busy here lately, what with one thing and another, so I (clearly) haven't been writing. My trusty N80 has a few partial blog entries in it but nothing is complete. The concern my absence has caused has been palpable here at Brave Creatures where the …Read the Rest

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