September 15, 2009 – 9:38 am
The language we speak
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Ah, that Julia Gillard. She’s hotter than swordfish on a bbq. In case you missed it last weekend, she said this of John Howard:
‘In politics, the fish doesn’t so much rot from the head as from the heart.’
(Think I’m kidding? Check out the context.)
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A few days before, you’ll have noticed that our [...]
September 7, 2009 – 11:43 am
Some days I can barely bare to read anything. Barely a thing. It goes in one eye, casting a shadow, a shadow of the eye, an eye shadow, goes where one knows not.
The phrase popped into mind: Reading without merit. Merit is maybe the Buddhist equivalent of Catholic good works. Reading for necessity (manuals, directions, [...]
September 3, 2009 – 10:31 am
What do you say when someone calls you a dill? And not just that but a super-dill?
That’s what Victoria’s Minister for Water was called after he was rescued from his two-night ordeal, feared dead, in his state’s Alpine region. Opposition MP Bernie Finn: ‘The ordinary Joe from the suburbs who goes walking by themselves in [...]
August 21, 2009 – 12:34 pm
I was going to post a blog (got as far as the title: How to eat food), about Michael Pollan’s eye-opening book, In Defense of Food, about food culture which I read on my holidays, but even if my stomach is on song with it, my head’s not yet in the right place to pass [...]
August 20, 2009 – 12:23 pm
Here’s a fine example of TSP, seen in the street the other day. Guess what kind of person owns this car?*
This picture was removed at the request of the car owner.
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* It was parked outside a real estate office. As it happened, a while later I witnessed a short, bald, slick-suited man with wraparound sunnies [...]
August 14, 2009 – 10:22 am
An occassional selection of uesful phrases overheard, or misheard neologistically.
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Tireless Self-Promoter:
Overheard several times at a party, a very useful phrase. “Just” is the handy modifier. As in:
– ‘He’s not a real collector; he’s just a tireless self-promoter.’
– ‘She’s not an artist; she’s just a tireless self-promoter.’
– ‘Man, they’ve no idea about cultural externalities*; they’re, they’re, [...]
August 12, 2009 – 10:12 am
From the model in yesterday’s life drawing, this pearl:
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No Brain, No Pain
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