(Amongst other things.)
Books
Cards & chocolate
A bird-headed staff from Marakesh
A poinsettia
A Swiss Army knife (no, I don’t know either – but it might come in handy, who can say)
Wedding (finally)
Welcome back. Things have been crazy.
So, my sister’s much-anticipated wedding finally happened on Saturday the 17th. The whole family came to town. It was pretty full on. The event was roundly deemed a success.
A substantial number of pictures were taken.
Friday
Hangin with the fam
Tooling the cake
Surveying the site
Emergency clothes shopping
Beers with the visiting Bentendo at Bar With No Name (favoured haunt of Neurocam renegades Iocus Severus and Nikolay Kamchatka)
Saturday
Everyone applauded after the ceremony, which I found slighly strange but maybe that’s just me
Lunch was a picnicky affair
Although some people weren’t down with that (which, y’know, is cool)
Sammy was quite intimidated by the whole thing initially
But he got over it
Despite persistent fears of rain, in the end it only spat slightly for a brief period during the speeches
Lawn games were played
It was all pretty good
Sunday
Post-nuptial brunchery at Retro on Brunswick Street
Beers with baby sis. We also went and saw Good Night, & Good Luck at the Kino Dendy, because I always do everything Lady J tells me to
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In Other News: Marty & Jess Split!!
In all the excitement I almost missed the real story of the day.
Filed under Current Affairs, Whack
Every Few Years JJJ Playlists Something I Like
Filed under Music
From: Trysting Fields Central Communications
To: Bentendo
Date: 13 December 2005 9:50:46 PM
Subject: Re: I have a new personal blog
On 13/12/2005, at 5:19 PM, Bentendo wrote:
>hey,
>
>hows it going,
Ah aight. I had all this cleaning I wanted to do and I’ve only done the kitchen so far. And it’s really bugging me.
Also what will I wear to the wedding? I’ve just got nothing at all to wear. It’s really bugging me also.
I’m okay. Destruction continues apace.
>so i’m doing this blog thing but i’m really not sure what to do,
>it seems really impersonal, like um i cant really explain, but
>i’m finding very hard to write anything particularly good on the
>thing.
>
>tips? help?
>
>i’m not after feedback or anything, just maybe something i dunno
Hmm.
Having a theme helps.
Also a bit of an audience to give you feedback.
I’ve found the best blogs (apart from ones that started from an absolutely shit hot idea to begin with) are the ones that have evolved their own style by trial and error over time. Just keep posting shit and see what sticks, kind of thing.
I started my old one in January entirely for the purposes of documenting my involvement in Neurocam, as was the style at the time. I just wrote about Neurocam to all the other Neurocam people. That was pretty straightforward. But eventually I got frustrated because other things kept creeping in that I wanted to write about. So eventually I started my other blog and just wrote what I wanted and was happy.
You get into a habit of thinking “oh, that would be a good thing to put in the blog” and soon enough ideas start occurring to you all the time. Many of those ideas will probably be crap, but there you go.
Filed under Weblogs
Library Punk Is Dead
He’s post-punk now, doncha know. And he’s moving to Melbourne!!! Smart.
More to the point, he now has a blog, which promises to develop into a prime source of quality rantage which will help keep us all amused as the twilight era of late stage western capitalism skids merrily towards its inevitable cataclysmic meltdown.
It’s good! I would definitely check it out if I were you.
(re-reading last post)
Woo, we’re grumpy at the moment.
And our grammar has gone to hell.
This is the price we pay for being on a (scheduled) rampage of DESTRUCTION.
Filed under Self Analysis
You Know What I Hate?
People who behave in ways which create the impression they think you – that’s the generic ‘you’, not you personally – are an idiot, but who are too pissweak to tell you so explicitly to your face, causing unnecessary paranoia.
These people can die. Any of you reading this: you can die. Don’t come here anymore. Understood? Good.
This whole being-nice-to-people-you-don’t-like thing is just bullshit. I get so fed up with it. I have been guilty myself on occasion of course, but only when social convention dictated that I really didn’t have a choice. (Or because I wanted something out of the person. Which is allowed.)
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Poverty Bites
(A Whinge)
My iPod is broken again. It won’t play when I press play and it keeps hanging. Worse, this time it was definitely my fault. (I dropped it last week, and then it got a bit wet on Friday.) So I’ll have to pay. Which means it probably won’t be getting fixed for a wee while.
No iPod makes Homer something something.
Meanwhile, I still need a new keyboard. And I owe the #$@& tax office $60. And look, my chronic fare evasion finally caught up with me:
$154. Ouch. That’s this wayward commuter told.
I will be too poor to acknowledge Christmas at this rate. No cards for anyone! I can’t be having with such festive frivolities.
Prospective wealthy benefactors: we should talk.
Filed under Life
SOYBEAN
is b a c k.
As is Rorschach.
Tript has another new blog.
Li has been on a posting binge of unprecedented proportions.
And the artist formerly known as Operative Hawthorne is still Neuroscooping us all.
Who said the Cam community had become a foetid cesspool?
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