April 2009
14 posts
Hold me.
My first story in years.
(Also my first assignment handed in on time this year.)
Guess this outfit won't be repeated.
Built an outfit today around a pair of knee-high blue socks. They cost $0.99 from a Salvos store, and have already lost most of their elasticity.
A thoroughly disappointing shopping day! Found myself in too many average op shops with overpriced shite, and visited the St Kilda Salvos for the first time after reading rave reviews. The quality and price of goods there is about as good/bad as that found in the Brunswick Savers, and Savers has more stock and less seediness.
(Almost) nothing worse than having a person sniffle their way through reading aloud. Your nose twitches in sympathy, but there is nothing you can do.
Oh, pardon my embarrassment!
Today I learned a valuable lesson about checking bags before handing them over to a checkout person to be filled with fruit and veg. At the end of unpacking groceries at home, I found a bra I’ve been searching for in the bottom of the bag.
Holidays
So, I’m meant to be writing a short fiction piece and/or increasing my knowledge of Hindu metaphysics, but instead I feel compelled to learn how to play Joanna Newsom’s “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie” on the keyboard.
“I keep thinking people are striking poses and staring at me, but they’re...”
– Benjo, in a department store
Hunter Wellingtons →
What does one wear on a night time trip out on a quiet bay in a blowup rubber dinghy? Wellies, obviously!
Too bad I don’t own any. You can, for only $160AUD including shipping.
They were called the samsaramocaka
Apparently, there existed in ancient India some ‘materialist monks’ (liferelievers) who, believing in death as the ultimate aim of life, used to go about cutting off people’s heads as a kindness, declaring, “I hereby release you!”
L8N on Jimmy →
This is the first (only!) interview of Jimmy Fallon’s I’ve watched, so what follows should be tempered: Maybe he would be better if he didn’t interrupt and talk over the people he’s interviewing?
YIPPEE!
We’re going to Byron! Not too soon (mid-August), but it’ll be a warm interlude to a Melbourne winter.
March 2009
14 posts
Guess who made a surprise appearance doing stand-up comedy at the Evelyn tonight? Janeane Garofalo! She’s in Melbourne for the comedy festival, but I got to see her for free! Suckas.
She was dressed in quite the Melbourne style, too: aggressive eye-wear, boots, tights and a sheer floral-print dress she lifted to show the swim trunks she was wearing beneath. She also mentioned Spanx,...
