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  • album review: niagara and the hitmen – st. valentine’s day massacre

    Up now over at RHUM.

    Posted: January 18th, 2010 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: culture, music, on-line
  • Currently reading: Cat’s Cradle

    Just finished it actually. A dark, interesting little book. I liked it more than Slaughterhouse Five.

    I am curious about Vonnegut’s view of religion having read it – some quick research (and much of his novels) suggests he was an…

    Posted: January 17th, 2010 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: books, culture, philosophy, religion
  • flat(iron)

    Any serious travel is looking like it’s some time away at the moment – I’m thinking of New York (and looking through old photos) and wishing I was over…

    Posted: January 17th, 2010 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: photography, travel, who the hell knows
  • new family member

    Max!

    Posted: December 29th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: who the hell knows
  • new smashing pumpkins

    Fair to say I’m not hating it so far… 43 more free tracks to come, allegedly.

    Posted: December 16th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: music
  • intermission

    I have been pursuing some non-online interests of late including my health and taking photos

    Posted: December 14th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: arollofthedice
  • melbourne

    Studying in Melbourne this week.

    Posted: November 12th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: australia, mental environment, photography
  • on finding one’s car has been broken into and one’s car stereo taken

    A stream of consciousness meditation on crime from the perspective of a semi-libertarian bleeding heart cynic whose 1990 Mistubishi Galant was found violated and stripped of its CD player this morning:

    1. Fuck.  I am not really angry so much

    …

    Posted: October 22nd, 2009 ˑ  2 Comments
    Filled under: australia, law, society, who the hell knows
  • exposure to absurdity may improve the mind

    I found this article interesting – new research suggests that exposure to the absurd or irrational may provoke higher levels of thinking – for example, pattern recognition – in humans.  The theory appears to be that when confronted…

    Posted: October 12th, 2009 ˑ  1 Comment
    Filled under: education, mental environment, science
  • vegas underground

    Having recently been to (and hated) Las Vegas, I found it fascinating to read this article about a hidden city of homeless living in a network of tunnels beneath the city, including right under the strip.  The scenes…

    Posted: October 1st, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: travel
  • yellow

    Near Kapunda, South Australia.

    Posted: September 20th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: australia, environment, photography
  • currently reading: the slap

    Along with the wonderful V, I am reading The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.  So far, I am hard pressed to think of a novel I have enjoyed less.

    The novel apparently examines “identities and personal…

    Posted: September 20th, 2009 ˑ  2 Comments
    Filled under: australia, books, culture
  • currently reading: V

    I am thoroughly enjoying V by Thomas Pynchon so far.

    The novel is roughly divided between the listless drifting of post WWII New York City, the byzantine European intrigues of pre-WWI Florence and…

    Posted: September 19th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: books, culture
  • botanic gardens

    Sorry for the lack of posts of late.  Meanwhile here’s a photo of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
    Posted: September 10th, 2009 ˑ  No Comments
    Filled under: photography
  • politician tells truth

    Shock, horror.

    Kudos to Kelvin Thompson, federal Labor MP, for having the courage to stand up to the “eternal growth” fools who currently dictate economic and development policies in the western world and point out that excessive population…

    Posted: August 18th, 2009 ˑ  2 Comments
    Filled under: australia, conformity, environment, free speech, politics, rationality, science, society
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