Don’t Have Time To Check It Out Properly Right Now

But this is quite interesting.

“The message [reg required] went on to explain that Lonelygirl15 was a project to harness the audience to develop and evolve a story and “usher in an era of interactive storytelling where the line between ‘fan’ and ‘star’ has been removed”.

While not everyone is convinced that the filmmakers’ confession is genuine (many believe it’s part of the developing mystery), it now seems certain that Lonelygirl15 is a fake – although who is behind the hoax and the purpose of it is still unclear.

A clue left in one of the videos suggests it may be another month before we find out.

In a video posted a week ago titled Bree The Cookie Monster, Bree and Daniel rate batches of cookies they said they baked.

Bree’s purple monkey puppet holds up score cards. The first one gets “10”, the second “12” and the third one “06”. Why “06” and not “6”?

Viewers point out that the sequence makes a date: 10/12/06 – or October 12, 2006, using the US method of writing dates. October 12 also happens to be the birth date of the late occultist Aleister Crowley, whose picture can be seen on a wall in Bree’s room.

News of the hoax, however, does appear to have dented Lonelygirl15’s popularity.”

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The Cleaning Is So Done

This makes me happy.

Sparkly clean bedroom

Sparkly clean bedroom

Sparkly clean living room

Sparkly clean living room

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More Postal Benevolence

LJ bday package (unopened)

Surprised & delighted was I to take delivery of this package today.

LJ bday package (opened)

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:

Red Bull concentrate bottles

Thanks, toots! You rock. (Have a good flight.)

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Adam Got Hacked!

Cunts messed with his template and his archives – and deleted Hagakure 419. Cunts!

Life just keeps dropping the bombs this week. First there was that whole freakish untimely death of Steve Irwin thing.. now this.

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My Mother, Of All People

.. has sent me a dozen bottles of wine.

Dozen bottles of wine

And a bottle of champagne in a package with two glasses.

Champagne

It’s an air-miles thing. She flies a lot.

Thanks, Mum!

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Stuff I Did This Week


Kitchen    Dining room    Hallway    Laundry    Bathroom

– Exhaustively cleaned the kitchen, the dining room, the hallway, the laundry, and the bathroom.

Position description

– 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.

Bentendo's new place (ext)

– Visited Bentendo at his new place.

Bentendo's invisible view

He has a very nice view of the city, which I was unable to photograph for security reasons

Prepaid SIM card

– 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.

Updating contacts

– Updated my address book and phone contacts.

Bathroom tile situation

– 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.)

Harira blogpost

– Made an elaborate pictoral blog post about cooking harira.

Region unlockage

– Inspired by trawling my own blog archives, figured out how to region-unlock my DVD player.

Birthday card

– Made a disastrous birthday card.

Stuff for the cat

– 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.)

Jo & Xade

– 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.

Guitar

– Recorded a cover of Always On My Mind with my associate Mishuki One for H419.

Photos of stuff I did this week, on Flickr

– 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.

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First Day Of Spring, Motherfuckers

And you can feel it in the air.

Flowers.jpg

This week has been mostly about the cleaning.

Kitchen shit in living room Ajax & furniture polish

Oven dial

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.

Mystery cat 1

It was not particularly inclined to be photographed.

Mystery cat 2 Mystery cat 3 Mystery cat 4 Mystery cat 5

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Harira

Another culinary adventure inspired by the house of Rorsch & Semi (see also).

You will need:

    Lamb
  • 500g of lamb

  • Olive oil
  • Olive oil

  • Onion
  • 2 chopped onions

  • Garlic
  • 4 cloves of crushed garlic

  • Cumin & paprika
  • 1.5 teaspoons of cumin & 2 teaspoons of paprika

  • Bay leaves
  • 1 bay leaf

  • Tomato puree
  • 2 tablespoons of tomato puree

  • Bovril
  • 1 cup of soup stock (Rorsch recommends VeCon if you can’t be bothered making your own stock. I recommend Bovril.)

  • Chickpeas
  • 500g of washed, soaked and cooked chickpeas

  • Chopped tomatoes
  • 2 cans of chopped tomatoes

  • 3 tablespoons of fresh, chopped coriander

  • Parsley
  • 3 6 tablespoons of fresh, chopped flat-leaf parsley

  • Turkish bread
  • Turkish bread

  1. Saute onion and garlic until soft.
    Saute onion & garlic

  2. Add meat, and brown.
    Add lamb

  3. Add cumin, paprika & bayleaf, and cook “until the fragrance makes your eyes start to water”.
    Add paprika

    Add bay leaf

  4. Add tomato paste and cook for a couple more minutes, stirring continuously.
    Add tomato paste 1

    Add tomato paste 2

  5. Add stock & chopped tomatoes, stir and bring to boil (“by now you should be able to feel the spice on the back of your pharynx”).
    Add stock,tomatoes & boil (dark)

    Add stock,tomatoes & boil (light)

  6. Add chickpeas coriander and parsley.
    Add chickpeas

    Add parsley

  7. Bring to boil.
    Bring to boil

  8. Simmer for 1 1/2-2 hours or until lamb is tender.
    Simmer 1 Simmer 2

  9. Serve, garnished with extra coriander and parsley, and warm turkish bread.
    Served

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Alone Again

For the moment, anyway.

Bastendo's vacated 'room'

And you know what? That’s the way I like it. Baby.

Don’t get me wrong, people. I love yiz. I do. You remind me so much of me, in so many ways.

And some of you are really cool.

Bentendo's vacated room

But let’s face it.

You’re way over-rated.

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I Just Successfully Applied For An ABN

You can do the whole thing online.

Takes about ten minutes.

So, if anyone would like to pay me for my services, rest assured that I can now issue you with a tax invoice quoting my ABN, in accordance with applicable laws.

Once my new business has made $540, maybe I’ll register a company.

Apparently that takes about twenty minutes. (And $540.)

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Evening With ~

A memorable night. (I think, based on what little I can remember..)


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My Housemate’s Stuff Is All Packed In Boxes

Boxes

He, and his little brother, are moving out next Saturday.

Soon all of this:

Dining-bedroom

.. will be just a distant memory.

Espresso machine

And they’re leaving me the espresso machine! Score.

Bucket of coffee

I think a party may finally be in order.

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I Found A Scarf

It’s quite nice. I like it.

Scarf

I encountered it on the northern fringes of the CBD late this afternoon, tied to a lamppost in the manner depicted:

Scarf tied

I hope I didn’t spoil anyone’s carefully laid plans by taking it. But if one will insist on leaving a perfectly good scarf tied to a public facility, these things will happen.

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Toenails.

Continuing the theme.

I’ve been meaning to do this for ages.

Virginal left foot

Wielding brush

Application (1)

Application (2)

Left foot drying

Further Drying

Finished

In action

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Being An Isolated Recluse May Seem Pretty Sweet, But It Has Its Drawbacks Redux

In other flashback to June 2005 news, the stable contact I eventually acquired thanks to this post flaked out on me about six weeks ago.

And if I don’t get some fucking weed soon, I may well go quite demented.

It could be entertaining, I guess. See it as a form of reader participation. Help a desperate man out (nb and earn his eternal gratitude) … or don’t.

Choose your own Teigan’s Blog adventure!

Update: Sorted.

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