Archive for October, 2004

Debauché

Some images of Melbourne.

Inglewood

A short while ago I mentioned that I drove through a little town in south-western Queensland called Inglewood. I mentioned that it was a bit weird and that the local bakery had no idea of how to heat up a meat pie. Well, browsing through the daily Murdoch press I found this story. A bloke went silly with a chainsaw in Inglewood and chopped the stomach out of some poor bloke. I’m not stopping for a pie in Inglewood ever again.

Spring hill fair

So the cat started meowing at the front door 3am last night (our cat sleeps inside at night) . I had just gotten to bed and ignored his calls putting them down to the fact that another local cat has been prowling around at the front door recently. I drifted off and woke up at about 530am. I went for a piss and discovered why the cat had been meowing so fervently at 3am. As I stepped into the bathroom and onto the shower mat, a horrible thing happened. A cold, sticky goo oozed up between my toes and I swore. It was the loudest “SHIT” that I’ve ever uttered. And what a shit it was. Smack bang in the middle of the shower mat and 3 feet away from the dunny. Never ignore a cat. They meow for a reason.

At the members end

At some stage all of us have hosted (or will host) an overseas visitor in our home. Visiting somewhere distant always gives me new ideas and a different perspective on my surroundings in Australia. Most of the time it makes me realise how frigging lucky we are here to have a fairly clean and spacious country as well as a pretty tolerant population. All that baloney brings me to this link. Basically, the fellow behind CSS Zen Garden came to Australia for an IT conference and has posted a brief travelog of his time in Sydney and Melbourne. I just love seeing others’ opinions on our country and how it clicks.

Bowling for Tarkine

It’s a shitty day here in Melbourne. Overcast and cool - only about 16 degrees. So here I sit boning up on useless facts off media websites and listening to the cricket from India. Those Injuns are doing well so far. It appears like it’s going to be another good series. Having Fox Sports to watch the series would be good, but after having Poxtel previously, I can’t see the value in it. Especially when you consider that the viewer PAYS to watch advertising.

Watch what you wear

Once I wore a pair of sandals to school (in Brisbane - hot weather) and got sent home on a free dress day. I thought that was rough and haven’t forgiven the he-bitch of a teacher that told me I was ‘nothing but a common dag’ for daring to wear them. I don’t think it’s so rough now when you compare what a St.Louis shopping centre did to a woman recovering from breast cancer.

more logos

From Spiegel Online comes this bunch of World Cup 2006 logo re-designs. He! (via Buenos Aires de Diseño)

I’m going to attempt to make this blog 95% political comment free. So many blogs now get bogged down in ‘opinion punchups’. There’s nothing in them that you wouldn’t find in an Andrew Bolt article, Green Left editorial or a major daily newspaper. So, unless it’s a fundamentally life altering politcal event like a big friggin’ war/bomb, union officials sent to the gallows or John Howard admitting that he’s a misleading little turd, I won’t mention it. I know what side of the fence I’m on and I’m going to put all my energy into making sure the that fenceposts are removed and replaced several metres to the left. There’s only one way to do that, and that’s to get involved. Has anybody got a posthole digger I can borrow?

World Cup logo for 2006

Can you believe that THIS is the logo for the World Cup in Germany in 2006.

Lesson

People of democratic nations elect governments that reflect themselves.

We must be all lying cunts.

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Air biscuits all round

Yadda yadda, yabba, yabba.

I’ve never seen so many Green Party posters/signs in shop windows or front yards in my life. I must be the only person in inner Melbourne who doesn’t like them. Other stuff spied around town this week:

Someone has gone on a one man anti-howard campaign around Northcote and Preston. These A4 sized posters are absolutely everywhere.

A few different views of Melbourne from 30 floors up. Click to enlarge if you feel like it.

And if anyone gets this far down the page I just have to add that I hope tomorrow morning is the last time I have to wake up knowing that John Howard is the PM. He is an annoying little cunt. Even Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a better leader than that fucktard.