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Ok uh ... umm ... ::scratches head::

2008-11-22T08:21:35-08:00

Well there's a dog and a duck ... then things get weird.

French Friday - Justice - "Stress" ... Not so happy but bloody visceral

2008-11-20T11:58:58-08:00

French Friday - Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

2008-11-20T11:07:56-08:00

4 more essays to go. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel ...

2008-11-20T01:43:33-08:00

Sometimes I get overwhelmed by how much I love Dave ... Chapelle

2008-11-20T12:35:29-08:00

Fave Music Video - Kim Salmon and the Surrealists

2008-11-19T11:29:40-08:00

Genius.

Is everyone asleep yet?

2008-11-19T02:32:34-08:00

Math Monday: Chavez - Unreal is Here

2008-11-17T04:53:52-08:00

I hear some weird things in the university labs when people accidentally unplug their headphones from their computers.

2008-11-16T09:34:11-08:00

excessive realism in sexual fantasies

2008-11-14T07:39:54-08:00

I was listening to You Look Nice Today recently when they discussed the following:

"I've had an issue lately with, you know, those fantasy type things ... where I have no less libido than I had 5 years ago but my fantasies have gotten ... out of hand. I mean that I now have to do so much in my fantasies with this other person before we can have sex. Like I can't just have sex with this other person now. We have to, you know, go shopping or something first, like in rigorous, painful detail ... or else it just seems rude."

Does anyone else find that this has also happened to them? What the hell does it signify?

critters in my backyard

2008-11-13T06:23:07-08:00

Exhibit A: Bluetongue Lizard in my silverbeet patch.

Exhibit B: Grasshopper trying to hitch a ride on my "Schwinn Quality" rusted piece-of-crap bike.

Rad Dudes

2008-11-13T05:56:01-08:00

... being rad.

Fave t-shirt

2008-11-12T02:16:55-08:00

Something I made

2008-11-12T01:55:54-08:00

A musical something. Good for sleepytime.

Bali Bombers executed today.

2008-11-08T08:11:53-08:00

SMH Article

I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand they pointlessly ended the lives of 202 people (88 of them Australian) but on the other hand I just can't bring myself to support the death penalty in any form. I can certainly understand that some of the people who lost loved ones in the attacks would gain a measure of comfort from their deaths however.

In this case the bombers will certainly end up being martyrs. Their continuous pontificating to the media on the "evils of the west" has assured that and their deaths will only perpetuate greater hatred. Already we're being given travel warnings to steer clear of Indonesia.

Make them rot in jail, working at least in some small part, to repair the damage they did. Let them make bricks for hospitals for the next 50 years.

My desktop (everything auto-hides)

2008-11-08T06:06:29-08:00

Next logical step: ELECT A HOLOGRAM FOR PRESIDENT!

2008-11-04T08:15:21-08:00

::meaningful sigh::

2008-11-03T06:55:58-08:00

Hmph!

2008-11-02T08:16:02-08:00

Oral Historian Studs Terkel dead at 96

2008-10-31T06:31:51-07:00

His stuff on Hiroshima was amazing. As my similarly-aged grandmother would say "he had a good innings". The link has plenty of his material to listen to if you're unfamiliar with his work.