Archive > September 2009

Oh, btw

If anyone needs me, I can be found at the above location (lying on the daybed at right, with a cocktail and paperback) for the next two weeks.
Thought I’d let you know, just in case.

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This is what it sounds like, when dudes cry.

I turned on my T.V this afternoon just in time to catch the final, strangely compelling minutes of the AFL Grand Final.
I say ’strangely compelling’ as one of my more marked personality traits is bored indifference towards popular televised sports. I’ll admit to enjoying UFC in the right company, and of course I watch gymnastics [...]

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Thoughts of a nerd

Bus stop, 11am, Monday morning

(I swear everything that happens to me takes place on a bus, after 9am and before 4pm, on a weekday. If interesting times are what you seek, this is where it’s at.)
I’m sitting on a little metal bench, waiting for the bus to the city and quietly minding my own business [...]

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Do you hear what I hear?

A couple of weeks ago, I started an entry about this article on the ‘iPod generation’ and how digital music has heralded the end of some fun (and not-so-fun) stuff abou consuming music.
But I got side-tracked with reminiscing about my childhood transition from carrying around cassettes in little plastic suitcases to the early, heady days [...]

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