Sunday, May 23, 2010

Kath, get ya lippy out

It's becoming more and more difficult to resist just posting photo after photo of young Charlie. I realise that the writing blogging is fairly non-existant these days and the things I do write are almost like shouting into a ravine. The only blog-worthy thoughts I've had recently are to do with the over-all foolishness of making cigarette manufacturors re-package their product in plain brown boxes, as though this will stop people from buying them.

Idiots! These are drugs. The bestest things about all drugs aren't the pretty boxes they come in. Ask anyone who has ever tried any kind of drug why they wanted to and I can guarantee their first answer won't be "The enticing packaging".

(Nb. As I have never knowingly met any drug users myself, I am only alleging this based upon a movie I saw once in which several background characters appeared to have been drug users in the past)

Okay, fine then. I'll stop blog-whinging about what a blog is or isn't lately and just make with the baby photos.

Kath, you were warned.



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  1. Kath LockettMonday, May 24, 2010 at 8:10:00 PM PDT

    Awww Awwww Awwww AWWWWWWWWWWW!

    Adorable isn't the word he's....

    he's.....

    Oh phark it, I'm just gonnna pucker up!

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  2. franzyMonday, May 24, 2010 at 9:57:00 PM PDT

    Oh yeah, ps. He has learned how to kiss.
    The mortality rate in middle-aged women has since sky-rocketted.

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  3. RiverMonday, May 24, 2010 at 11:38:00 PM PDT

    A baby Tux!!! oh, that's so sweet. Sweeter than candy. So huggable.

    As for the smokes, I agree. Plain packaging isn't going to make people smoke less. Nor will high prices. Apparently the idea behind the price hikes is to discourage younger people who earn less from buying them and starting the habit in the first place. As far as I'm concerned, this won't work either. If a person is going to smoke, then they will, just like people who try drugs, for whatever reason. It's a similar type of thing, (there's a name for it I'm sure)to types of people who are always victims, those who take risks, those who always stay in the background. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. There are also people who will never smoke (do drugs etc)and no amount of advertising or fancy packaging will make them even think about starting. on the other side of the story are the long term smokers who can't quit, higher prices may make them smoke less, but the majority will probably continue as they have been, while cutting the budget for other things, maybe cheaper quality or less food and clothing for the family. I have to confess I'm concerned about the children here. And I should probably have taken this essay and run it on my own (new, shy) little blog.....

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  4. AnonymousTuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:57:00 PM PDT

    st pauls new carpet? holy moley.

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An explanation of The Joy Division Litmus Test

Although it may now be lost in the mysts of thyme, the poll below is still relevant to this blog. In the winter of 2008, Mele and I went to live in Queensland. In order to survive, I bluffed my way into a job at a Coffee Club.
It was quite a reasonable place to work: the hours were regular, the staff were quite nice, it wasn't particularly taxing on my brain.
There were a few downsides: In the six weeks or so that I worked there, there was about a 90% staff turnover (contributed to by my leaving). This wasn't seen as a result of the low pay, the laughability of staff prices or the practice of not distributing tips to staff, rather it was blamed on the lack of work ethic among Bribie Island's youth.
However, one of the stranger aspects of the cultural isolation that touched our lives during our time "up there" was the fact that nobody at my work had heard of the band Joy Division.
The full explanation is available here.
But please, interact a little further and vote in my ongoing poll. The results are slowly mounting up, proving one thing: people read this blog are more well-informed about Joy Division than anyone who works at the Coffee Club on Bribie Island.

Have you heard of the band Joy Division?

Chinese food, not Chinese Internet!

Champions of Guess The Header

  • What is Guess The Header about? Let’s ask regular “Writing” reader, Shippy: "Anyway, after Franzy's stunning September, and having a crack at 'Guess The Header' for the first time - without truly knowing what I was doing mind you - I think I finally understand what 'GTH' is all about. At first I thought you needed to actually know what it was. Don't get me wrong — if you know what it is, it may help you. I now realise that it's more Franzy's way of invoking thought around an image or, more often than not, part of an image. If you dissect slightly the GTH explanatory sentence at the bottom of his blog you come up with this: “The photo is always taken by me and always connects in some way to the topic of the blog entry it heads up.” When the header is put up, the blog below it will in some obscure way have something to do with it. “Interesting comments are judged and scored arbitrarily and the process is open to corruption and bribery with all correspondence being entered into after the fact and on into eternity, ad infinitum amen.” Franzy judges it, but it's not always the GTH that describes the place perfectly that gets it. “The frequent commenters, the wits, the wags and the outright smartarses who, each entry, engage to both guess the origin and relevance of the strip of photo at the top (or “head”) of each new blog and also who leave what I deem the most interesting comment.” It generally helps if you're a complete smartarse and can twist things to mean whatever you feel they should mean - exactly the way Franzy would like things to be twisted." - Shippy Blogger and GTH point scorer.
  • Nai - 1
  • Lion Kinsman - 2
  • Will - 2
  • Brocky - 2
  • Andy Pants - 2
  • The 327th Male - 3
  • Mad Cat Lady - 3
  • Miles McClagen - 4
  • Myninjacockle - 4
  • Asheligh - 5
  • Neil - 5
  • Third Cat - 5
  • Adam Y - 6
  • Squib - 6
  • Mele - 6
  • Moifey - 7
  • Jono - 8
  • The Other, other Sam - 14
  • Kath Lockett - 15
  • Shippy - 19
  • River - 32