February 2006

concrete sheds

February 25, 2006

I spent the lions share of today 3 floors underground in the storage unit belonging to none other than my ex. With my ex. It was somethinhg we should have done years or at least months ago. We  had both skirted round the edges  of it in the past, arguements being persuit. But the place [...]

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“Fell from a great height”

February 17, 2006

9:35 AM I closed my apartment door over 50 mins ago. I am at the coffee shop less than 5 minutes roll away. I only just arrived, I have spent most of the last hour, sitting perched on the bottom step in the cool of a stair well. Embarrassed. Watching people equally embarrassed ; puzzled [...]

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I get a mention

February 15, 2006

Not that he got my name right, but Cameron  runs an association of podcasts (audio files that you can play through an iPod or through your computer) as a commercial venture here in Australia. Cam features in many of them and although he swears a tad, many of his political/social justice views are thought provoking. [...]

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Life without television

February 10, 2006

I do not own a televison. Well i do, but it’s on loan to a friend of mine and lived in a back room unplugged for some time before-hand. I last watched a television (apart from in waiting rooms and such) when last in the UK I think. Perhaps at  Christmas. I know I watched [...]

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space etiquette part 2

February 8, 2006

<as requested …. essay in progress me thinks –J> I say all this by way of introduction. When I roll down many Sydney streets and dodge people and concrete slabs gone awry and people staring at their <insert 20th century handheld device here>, I’m the one that ends up feeling like I’m in the wrong. [...]

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Pressure princess

February 7, 2006

According to this; the younger daughter-in-law of the Japanese dynasty is expecting. This could be historically very very telling. The 39 year old Princess Kiko is expecting her third child. Assuming this is then her last, if this is not a boy the law would have to be have to be changed to accomodate a [...]

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cautious line

February 7, 2006

Australia’s media seems to be taking a self-censorship line over these cartoons that have sparked yet more unrest in the Mid East and elsewhere and by extension increase the risk of more between religious groups here and no doubt elsewhere. As Alan Oakley put it here: “To have a debate about pornography you don’t have [...]

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space etiquette

February 2, 2006

I’m sitting under a tree in an inner city park away from the main street. Paradoxically I can hear both planes and over my iPod birds as well. I’ve lived in this part of Sydney for the lion’s share of my adult life. Yes, I’ve lived other places as well. Indeed there are places I [...]

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