Saturday, October 29, 2011

Hiiiiiiii-YA!!!


Miss Piggy once said: "Never eat more than you can lift."
She may have been right.

Eating is one pleasure, and we've pushed the boundaries in the Gouger Street Epic(ure). Reading is another pleasure and I have recently embarked upon my own epic: I'm on the judging panel for a book prize. You get a little money and you get to keep all the books. Sounds great, right?

Pictured here is me with two piles of books. One is the pile I've read, the other is the pile I am yet to read.

Can you guess which is which?


Something like, "Never try to read more than you fly over"



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5 comments:

  1. tracySunday, October 30, 2011 at 10:20:00 PM PDT

    All the while balancing a large box on your head.

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  2. franzySunday, October 30, 2011 at 10:46:00 PM PDT

    Yeah. In retrospect I should have moved the (empty) car seat box for nicer composition.
    Also taken my lame-as Asics off.
    And done the old 'incidental' flex ...

    In retrospect ...

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  3. Kath LockettTuesday, November 1, 2011 at 4:29:00 AM PDT

    ....I always wondered whether those eager beavers who paid money to do those speed reading courses in first year uni were onto something.....

    If only fiction had executive summaries!

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  4. franzyTuesday, November 1, 2011 at 6:28:00 PM PDT

    They do have executive summaries!
    I call them "poorly written blurbs which give away key plot points and sometimes even the ending".

    But man, speed-reading would be sweet. I am a damn slow reader for someone who kind of trades in the skill...

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  5. SHIPPYSunday, November 13, 2011 at 8:29:00 PM PST

    Lucky you're not exactly a tall fella.

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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