My new favorite lunch spot

3pm Victoria Park- Glebe, NSW. 

It went like this:

the future is now!!

holy shit... when did THIS start? amazing the technological advances that can happen in a measly year! NEWs indeed.
............i feel like i'm from the stone age.
(aka cable-free australia)



ps- melikes what he describes with his magic fingers
also, dark blue in the opening motion shot exactly denotes states i would/do consider living in
(possible exceptions: vermont and new jersey)
Also, i've gotta say... cnn's got it goin on in in terms of flash factor. ...that's all that matters, right?

what's the most fucked up party YOU'VE ever been to?

I win!

*note: this was not, i repeat NOT a halloween party.

Road to Surfer's Paradise (sans surfing)

Rodent warfare

Dear Kitchen Rat(s),
When I first saw you and realized how small and gray and terrified of me you were, my heart softened a bit to the idea of your infrequent visits to our kitchen. I'd knock before entering and give you a moment to scurry from inside the trash bin to what I can only assume is a rat paradise in the wall beneath our stove. I fought against an unnecessary rat genocide and said no to the purchase of poison. But then you got cocky. You got sloppy. You brought friends. Bigger friends. Decidedly un-cute, slow moving, gluttonous friends. You are not paying rent nor contributing to grocery costs, rat, and you are no longer welcome.
Wall fillers have been purchased, new trash bins acquired. The backyard is now on lock-down and bits of blue poison have been distributed.
Our Message:
Keep your filthy paws off our property or suffer the consequences.
There are plenty of restaurants in the surrounding areas to keep you nourished.
There's nothing for you here.
And unless you are smart enough not to consume that delicious looking poison and have armor the likes of this:

I suggest that you bid us adieu.
G'day
-Glebe Hotel Concierge

quoteunquote

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, 

the master calls a butterfly.” 

— Chuang Tse

"Rampant like herpes, but for positive"

Glebe Hotel Take Notice!!

I can't help but notice that although love and passion for word combining has in no way diminished here in our humbode, it has lost a bit of vigor.
SO.
Here to amuse us in a different but similar vein, are Nonce Words.

Found in GOOD Magazine:
"nonce words: terms coined for a single occasion that don’t catch on at all.

For example, mossify, poorify, princify, tubify, and pumkinfier—all rare, oddball words to be sure, demonstrating both the productivity of -ify and the timeless tendency to newify language with novel words. Many of the old gems are fairly self defining—like dastardling, deericide, demonette, infantocracy, moanification, pigfully, poundiferous, squirtical, tigerocious, and traitorology."

Let the ridicibellious games begin.

GOOD magazine is scrumtulicious.
http://www.good.is/

Fly Me To The Moon

In 2009 Virgin Galactic will offer commercial space ventures in this:

For a mere $200,000 you get 6 minutes of gravity-free time in earth's orbit.
I work with some people who exist there all the time For Free!!

www.virgingalactic.com

Hope

Living across the world without a TV has rendered me sometimes painfully disconnected to my homeland's goings on. I download The Daily Show ( <3 ) and various podcasts and have recently made the Fantastic switch from cnn.com to The Independent, but it's hardly the same as being there. It's like knowing that somebody is having a bar-b-q -- maybe even smelling that bbq-- but not partaking in the feast (or in the US's recent case: old frozen package of hot-dogs and watered down kool-aid). How anyone is able to permanently change their residency blows my mind.
You can't change where you came from and no matter what crazy shit the US gets up to, I will never want to. Although I do hope we will have upgraded back to Polish sausages, potato salad, and margaritas by the time I get back. (Hide some cash under your mattress just to be sure.)
And because I hope this, I have just registered to vote- as should all rational Americans. (Bible belt- feel free to let November 4th slip your mind)