So now our freezer is full of frozen cow.
She also gave us some duck eggs.
I boiled one and had it for breakfast.
It was well tasty.
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Party
It went off.
~ tried to persuade me to wear this shirt of his, but it was the wrong shirt
He also prepared a special discombobulatory mobile for the back garden
The first of my guests to arrive was none other than former operative American Guy. Sadly he didn’t stay very long, but it was nice to see him again
Semi’s bitch good friend T (pictured, centre), a brilliant and profoundly disturbed young man, spent the first two hours or so of his tenure focussed with laser-like intensity on the task of building us a better stereo from found objects, including my dodgy $60 DVD player
He then proceeded to introduce the company to the seductive pleasures of Russian Cocaine (shot of vodka–> lemon wedge with white sugar on one side and ground – nb not instant – coffee on the other. Try it, you will like it)
Queen Jo was very proud of her skirt, and rightly so. Disappointed I didn’t get any better pictures of it
One bottle of the red bull concentrate was consumed between several individuals, albiet not under experimentally pure conditions
In other news, Desci was good enough to bring her last packet of NO bulbs. To my astonishment, neither she nor Semi had ever even heard of doing them from balloons. And to my dismay, I didn’t have any. They were still great though. Nitrous Oxide, children.
After cleaning up a bit on Sunday, we went out for breakfast. But completely outrageously, there apparently isn’t anywhere on Brunswick Street that does breakfast after 6pm. Huge gap in the market. We had to settle for curry
Filed under Drunkenness, Life, People, Photos, w0ot
Soiree de Semi
~‘s extraordinary invention, The Discombobulator ™ astounds and delights jaded party guests who thought they’d seen everything:
Mysterious Postal Benevolence
This arrived yesterday from a mail-order DVD retailer in South Australia, with no message save for a ‘Happy Birthday’ appended to my name on the address label:
Apart from a few relatives who’d be very, very unlikely to anonymously send me Harmony Korine movies, I don’t really know anyone in South Australia.
Anyway – whoever you are (if you’re reading), thank you so much! As a present, no other widely-available DVD could please me more.
Stoked.
Filed under Benevolence, Movies, Photos
American Guy’s Oxfam Trivia Night
My team, Custard of Lump, performed badly. For my part I was still a fair bit hungover from the previous evening.
But I did come away with this candelabra that looks a bit like the Fiat NOX octopus:
The bidding got kind of silly, but I still paid $1 less than its market value ($25). I needed a centrepiece for my mantle.
Most Interesting Thing I Have Eaten This Week
Caper omelette with pomegranate syrup ala Jaye de Koan.
It was really nice!
My Skin Looks Really Cruddy At The Moment
This is why you shouldn’t smoke, kids. Or grow old.
Filed under Photos, Self Analysis
For H
Not having posted any gratuitous pictures of Kate Beckinsale for no particular reason in nearly 16 months is “damaging” my blog, apparently.
Filed under Damage Control, People, Photos
Wine Review: 2005 Rothbury Estate Chardonnay
This tasted quite watery to me initially; it had that sour grapey-alcohol taste one traditionally associates with wine, but in a subtle, barely-there kind of way. After a few glasses the flavour started to seem a bit more pronounced and mildly nauseating. But it was fairly drinkable overall.
Bentendo had a glass with me; he opined that it was “really sharp” and claimed he could “taste it at the front of [his] mouth”.
Its alcohol content was 12.5%. I consumed about 80% of the bottle over two and a half hours on Sunday night. By the time I was finished I would rate my level of drunkenness (zero being sober, ten being unconscious or at least blacked out) at about 4.5.
Overall, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being definitely wine, zero being not wine at all, but something else), I would give this 9.5. It was almost unquestionably a bottle of white wine.
Filed under Drunkenness, Photos, Wine Criticism
More Postal Benevolence
Surprised & delighted was I to take delivery of this package today.
My birthday isn’t till the 14th (yes, as it happens I do have an Amazon wishlist), but I thought it would be alright to open the large bottles now, being pretty sure I already knew what they were:
Thanks, toots! You rock. (Have a good flight.)
Filed under Benevolence, Drugs, People, Photos, Whack
My Mother, Of All People
.. has sent me a dozen bottles of wine.
And a bottle of champagne in a package with two glasses.
It’s an air-miles thing. She flies a lot.
Thanks, Mum!
Filed under Domestica, Drunkenness, People, Photos
Stuff I Did This Week
– Exhaustively cleaned the kitchen, the dining room, the hallway, the laundry, and the bathroom.
– Made sixteen phonecalls, took seven phonecalls, attended interviews with three people, and lodged one detailed & tedious application form in pursuit of new revenue streams. Ate dodgy Japanese food on Chapel Street; gawped at people hanging on Chapel Street.
– Visited Bentendo at his new place.
He has a very nice view of the city, which I was unable to photograph for security reasons
– Reincarnated my old mobile – which I thought I’d lost, eventually replaced, and later found – as a second phone, via the purchase of a $25 prepaid SIM card.
– Updated my address book and phone contacts.
– Succesfully enticed a professional tiler into assessing dire bathroom tile issue situation, pictured. (They refused to replace the tiles, arguing that the only meaningful solution was to retile the whole bathroom.)
– Made an elaborate pictoral blog post about cooking harira.
– Inspired by trawling my own blog archives, figured out how to region-unlock my DVD player.
– Made a disastrous birthday card.
– Stupidly trammed it all the way out to the RSPCA in Burwood East to buy a kitten, only to discover that – it not quite being kitten season yet, see – they didn’t have any. (Note to self: next time ring ahead.)
– Got shitfaced at The Mint and elsewhere again with Jo, Xade, Rorschach, Jaye deKoan and sundry others. An unshaven Tript was vaguely encountered somewhere in the vicinity of the Victoria Markets at around 1am. About two people at least one of whom I did not previously know ended up on my foldout couch watching Reservoir Dogs.
– Recorded a cover of Always On My Mind with my associate Mishuki One for H419.
– Made an elaborate pictoral blog post about things I did this week.
– Watched entire series of John Safran vs God (purchased secondhand last Sunday for $5).
– Went to the gym five times.
– Wrote 36 emails to 15 people.
– Et cetera.
Filed under Current Affairs, Domestica, Drunkenness, Life, Movies, Music, People, Photos, Work
First Day Of Spring, Motherfuckers
And you can feel it in the air.
This week has been mostly about the cleaning.
I tried unsuccessfully to buy a cat yesterday. But when I woke up this morning, one was wandering around the house anyway. It must have scaled the garden wall and got in through the back door, which I forgot to secure last night.
It was not particularly inclined to be photographed.
