Janszoon

While I was walking down the street just a few minutes ago this neighborhood crazy guy Omar yelled, I think at me, "Hey! Hey you! Depeche Mode cut with speed!"

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean but I think it's hilarious.

__________________
A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

VEGANGELICA

I've been to Istanbul...an ex's family lives there. That's sad about the bomb. Sigh.

Meanwhile, in placid Iowa, I am about to go dig up weeds now that the scorching sun is going down. The closest our neighborhood has to Omar is a woman who is often drunk while walking her dog. She is very friendly, though. She appreciates my flowers, even when she sounds drunk. She never screams anything about Depeche Mode, alas.

__________________

NSW

__________________
Hi.

jibber

Esma's (our receptionist) husband is in the military. On Sunday just by a fluke coincidence he was on patrol elsewhere in the city. If it had been a normal shift he would have been on the bus that was hit. A lot of his very close friends died that day, so sad.

__________________
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.

HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

Urban Hat€monger ?

Bought a vuvuzela for my nephew.

I bet i'm really popular with the neighbours right now

__________________

Astronomer

Well today was an interesting day. For the first time in like 100 years the Labour party decided to vote out their own leader, and our Prime Minister, because they didn't agree with his leadership anymore. Now we have our first ever female Prime Minister, and she's also a knob with a horrible strine accent.

__________________

Janszoon

Arg. I can hear it from all the way over here.

__________________
A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

jackhammer

As long as she doesn't compare to that fucking old bitch Thatcher you will be OK.

__________________

Astronomer

Hrm, I dunno. She's also Welsh...

Unfortunately for her sake I don't think she'll last long.

__________________

scottsy

I read about that this afternoon lateralus and i was pretty shocked... the general feeling from over here has been that Rudd was a pretty popular PM who would have been a no brainer going into an election at the end of the year... but he has made a few gaffes of late, introducing some not so popular policies and whatnot... but still i thought the Party would stick with their leader, rather than dispose of him so quickly and abruptly...

I read Gillard's "humble" speech of acceptance as a new PM, and well, it didn't come off the page as terribly humble to me... but then again nothing a pollie says sounds terribly humble to my ears...lol...

Honestly, I think she is trying to take things back into the middle more, as that's where the perceived votes are at... it seemed to me that Rudd may have been veering further to the left...

And I really detest it when politicians start saying they're going to start taking a harder line with border policy... smallmindedness tends to come hand in hand with this world view, and the whole border security issue is such a Howard era throwback...

__________________
"If you're like me, then it's possible you're a clone generated from my stolen DNA. I suggest you turn yourself in for destruction immediately" - Shaun Micallef.