tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69414282011-08-16T17:19:10.322+10:00Australians all let us read Joyce ..for we are young and freeFXHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14927037961123914689noreply@blogger.comBlogger3211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941428.post-33879114762118064722009-11-18T20:30:00.005+11:002009-11-18T21:01:45.864+11:00

Comparing the 1996 and 2001 Australian Census:   ------------------ --Females ---Males --Total Aboriginal Traditional - ----------2480 ---2744 -----5224 Agnosticism - ---------7354 ---10213 ---17567 Atheism - -------------9219 ---15245 ---24464 No religion -------

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A PUSH by Australian record companies to make clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes pay tens of millions of dollars more in fees to play their music has backfired. Businesses have decided to turn off tunes licensed by the record companies and play the music of artists that are not signed to major labels.The scheme would have increased some license fees from around $500 to almost $36,000.A Clubs

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From Salon:Pope Benedict XVI has made some Anglicans an offer he thinks they can't refuse. The pope has opened his arms to welcome, en masse, Anglican and Episcopalian priests, bishops and even whole congregations into full communion with the Catholic Church -- so long as they disagree with Anglican decisions to accept women priests and gay bishops. The Anglican priests and bishops can even bring

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Like zydeco, soul, country, gospel, vocals, harmony, roots, slide guitar? Hey Juanita - wishing there was a band around these days like Little Feat to do Dixie Chicken and Fat Man in The Bath Tub?Why not do what I do - pullout your copy of the subdudes Live At Last and play it loud.Heres some inferior offerings of subdudes off youtube to give you a taste.

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Listening to Jimmie Rodgers the other night I was struck by how much Slim Dusty was influenced by him. Much the same as you can hear Woody in early Bob.

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From: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13210638

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 booksM J Hyland lived in Melbourne long enough for us to call her "An Australian Author" and the book is published by Text. It cost me $36 in Melbourne to bring with me to read.I hadn't read any by the time we got to Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport, possibly not the cheapest place in EU to buy books, where it was available for 16 euros = aus$27.50.I do hope that extra 31% or $8.50 the Oz version

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I need a book (probably two or three books really) to read on a 20+ hours plane trip. One or two I haven't read. In an ideal world it would be a well written Australia crime novel set in Melbourne. Say Peter Temple's new one not yet released. Or Garry Disher's new one not yet released.I've read The Slap, and Coetzee's 3 in one novel, whatitsname? Any suggestions I can buy tomorrow. Other wise it

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It’s traditional on blogs that after a hiatus in posting one announces that it’s over. Kaput. Finished. Dead. Old art form no longer relevant. The well of inspiration has dried up. There’s nothing new left to say. Others are doing it better. Life is too short too blog. Some mysterious affliction prevents one from tapping the creative key tapping juices. Then after a month or so one announces a

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I called the Swine Flu hotline today but I couldn't get through... all I got was crackling.How do you know if you have Swine Flu? You keep getting these rashers.Doctor, Doctor. I think I have Swine Flu! Don't worry, just rub in this oinkment.Doctor, Doctor. I've just eaten a bacon sandwich, am I going to die? Depends if the bacon was cured or not.Doctor, Doctor. My daughter woke up this morning

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Falling CatsThere are more here

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30 something clothing sales person:“Yeah the print .. it looks like that guy…… y’ know ..Che”30 something customer: "Che? Who’s he again"?Sales: “Um.. he’s famous”Customer: “Oh”Sales: “Yeah – he was a famous Russian ambassador .. or something”

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I'm sure you all know by now that the world's best street fashion blogger, Scott Schuman, is in Melbourne for fashion week or something. He's already been shooting and publishing around Chapel Street. Let's hope he doesn't restrict himself to TrakPran area. 

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Something happens to country singer songwriters as the get older, more established and famous. For one their songwriting and singing gets more mature, assured and to some extent this results in simultaneously, but paradoxically, more risk taking and less need to be different. A fan can often get the freshness of new material and fresh approaches to old material and the artist can feel relaxed

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I'm off to Mackay at 7 am tomorrow for a week."CYCLONE Hamish has become a category four storm as it tracks south towards Mackay and dumps rain on Innisfail, the weather bureau warns.The tropical cyclone is just off the coast near Innisfail and has already dumped heavy rain over parts of the north Queensland coast. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said Hamish could bring devastation similar to that

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Should I see the doctor or my favourite nurse....Man, he's got me on milk, cream and alcohol..

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I digI'm in stepWhen it was hip to be hep, I was hepI don't blow but I'm a fanLook at me swingRing a ding dingI even call my girlfriend manI'm so hipOne of my biggest regrets, and I have a few, too many to mention, was not going to see Blossom Dearie when she was here in Melbourne not all that many years ago. My conscious and unconscious pre-occupation with last week's heat, flame, darkness and

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Leonard Cohen, 2009-02-05 (Thursday, February 5, 2009) 8:15pm AEDT, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australiaset 101. Dance Me To The End Of Love02. The Future03. Ain't No Cure For Love04. Bird On The Wire05. Everybody Knows06. In My Secret Life07. Who By Fire08. Chelsea Hotel #209. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye10. Sisters Of Mercy11. Anthemset 212. Tower Of Song13. Suzanne14. The

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If I was using twitter I'd be saying " off to see lenny tonight". I wouldn't write "woot".Its a good job I remembered the tickets were electronic and have printed them out after looking for them for 20 minutes. It's also a good idea that I looked up to see it starts at 7.15 pm, yes 7 bloody 15, not 8.00pm or 8.30pm . So I'm cancelling that meal and meetup at the Corner Hotel before the show for

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In November 2008 I purchased a cheap,  $87 on special, colour inkjet printer to work off a computer in another room for convenience. Last week it ran out of ink. Today I found out it will cost $120 to replace all 4 cartridges. This caused me to say a rude word out loud in the shop. The nice lady said "Yes I agree". She then said "We have this clearance printer on sale for $50 including full size

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Steve Martin has released his first all music album. It's called The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo. Steve wrote most of the 15 tracks. It was produced by John McEuen, known for his playing in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Other pluckers or warblers of note on the album are Earl Scruggs, Mary Black, Tim O'Brien, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Tony Trischka and Pete Wernick.Apparently it's

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FXcuisine.comWho I am?My name is François-Xavier (FX) and I am a French-speaking Swiss man living on the shores of Lake Geneva, an hour from France and Italy. I also speak Italian, German, Spanish, Russian and - obviously - English.What do I do?I do not cook for a living nor did I ever study cooking outside my home and a few 3-hours classes. My professional background is in finance/law and I deal

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MyNewSize specializes in cosmetic penis enlargement surgery (phalloplasty). Utilizing state-of-the-art facilities and the leading phalloplasty surgeon, men can be confident they are receiving the best surgical outcomes available. MyNewSize is owned and operated by former penis enlargement surgery patients, giving us the unique opportunity to structure the company around the patient experience.Or

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"The procedure" we're talking about is something called laser vaginal rejuvenation, or LVR. It is performed, surprisingly enough, at the Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of Los Angeles, which claims to have pioneered the technique, and which describes it as:"...a one-hour outpatient surgical procedure designed to enhance sexual gratification. According to Master [sic] and Johnson,* sexual

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Things to do before I die:#37 Flirt with Romona and make her laugh. [While being interviewed at a writers festival]

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Today, Boxing Day , we head down the road to Apollo Bay and the Otways. We'll stop at Werribee Park and have a lunch and possibly do a tour of the Open Range Zoo. Then on across the boring basalt plains to Geelong, city of hope, where we will visit a relative and then with the 3 hip Taiwanese lesbians self identified queer guests we will scandalise invade pick up our food supplies at an ordinary

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Frank Kelly plays Fr Jack in Fr Ted

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This year it's my turn to host the family xmas do. I calculate around 25 people for late lunch. I had the brilliant idea to bbq a pig.  No fiddly antipasto, cheeses and fancy salads. Simple earthy tastes with fresh bread. Sophisticated peasant. Last time I did something like this was years ago. I looked up hints. I found a lot of advice like this:"Getting the spit through the pig is tricky,

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An Australian study into the sexual history of 185 students at the University of Sydney found male science "nerds" were the least likely to have had sexual intercourse.At the other end of the spectrum, female arts students ranked as the most sexually active.The study of 16 to 25-year-olds, published in the journal Sexual Health, said: "Males in the study were less likely to have had sex as a

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Ms Elsie Wear of The View From Elsewhere is visiting Melbourne. This is an excuse to hold a Blogmeet. The Blogmeet will be at The Builders Arms Hotel, in 211 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy from 1.30 pm onwards (yes daylight!) on this coming Saturday the 6th December 2008. Possibly running until much much later that day.Ms Elsewhere is arguably in the top 5 of Alice Springs' Premier female, bike riding,

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Supermarket diary continued:Today at the checkout I slipped in behind the neat 30 year old guy in a T shirt and jeans because he had a smallish basket of goodies. My gaze drifted toward his shopping on the belt:20+ small packets of expensive gourmet cat food4 very big packs of Ferrero Rocher chocolate thingos1 packet of kitty litter8 potatoes1 large packet of Trojan condomsThat's all. I'm still

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Overheard. Near the potato section at supermarket today.Blonde mum 1"And then there's the school fees"Blonde mum 2"Yes, and the rest. Fiona had to get a laptop for VCE. Oliver got jealous and demanded one too. Luckily we got Rudd to pay for it. We both salary sacrificed a laptop"Under Fringe Benefits Tax legislation one laptop or notebook computer can be provided per employee per FBT year without

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From Randy Lewis of the L.A. Times: For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence -- "This is a train" -- could turn into a deeply spiritual incantation.But transcendence is what Morrison has been after with his music from the beginning, and it's what he achieved frequently on

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In-depth interviews with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and two-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Van Morrison are exceedingly few and far between. But in conjunction with his performances Nov. 7 and 8 at the Hollywood Bowl, where he’ll perform his 1968 album “Astral Weeks” in its entirety for the first time anywhere, along with other songs from throughout his career, he agreed to

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" MEN are born with a highly tuned infidelity detector designed by nature to help them ensure they are supporting their genetic offspring and not those of an interloper.It's so sensitive, though, that suspicious men are prone to see cheating when it doesn't exist, according to US evolutionary biologists.The new findings fit with statistics reported yesterday in The Australian that one in five

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Browsing at a proddy church fete I found this single for 25 cents. I slung them 30c as I casually but kindly tossed over my shoulder "Keep the change".If you didn't watch The Goodies you might not understand my excitement.

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The good oil, the drum, heads up, nod is as good as a wink, say no more, no bum steers. "It's super Saturday tomorrow for the running of the Victoria Derby with four Group One races on the program. Including the Derby, there is the Coolmore Stud Stakes, a 1200 metre race for three year olds, the Mackinnon Stakes over 2000 metres, the traditional last chance for Melbourne Cup hopefuls to qualify,

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With his father and a firearms instructor standing nearby, an 8-year-old Connecticut boy shot himself in the head with a submachine gun yesterday, killing himself in an accident some say should never have happened.Christopher Bizilj was testing a 9 mm Micro Uzi at the Westfield Sportsman's Club in Westfield, Mass., as part of the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo, when he shot himself Sunday. "

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Even though its spring time and the salads are getting a flogging and the BBQ is all cleaned up ready to rock and roll the nights are still cool enough to allow for the odd curry or soup or other winterish type dish – before we pack away the casserole pot for another 6 months.It was 16 degrees this arvo when I decided “Bugger it – I’ll do my Red Meat Curry”. So off to Box Hill market I went. The

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For those of us who don't regularly follow the gee gees spring time in Melbourne presents a dilemma. How to get the good oil on a nag to do the betting thing. I can usually rely on my mate Stan to give me the drum but others are less connected. Problem solved. I’ve discovered a Melbourne blogger who seems at home with the bookies, strappers, slappers and squeaky voiced jockeys of the Spring

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I see the reformed Bangles are touring. The Bangles had little effect on me one way or t'other. The Saw Doctors are one band I find myself listening to a lot these days. Especially watching the DVD Live In Galway and the song Joyce Country Ceilhi Band. I came across one of their lesser songs - I'd Love To Kiss The Bangles.They are not loud or angry, or vigorously uncompromising. They have no

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Tell ‘em they’re dreamin’ alright. As part of my continuous quest to understand local cultures I call into a Crime Cash Converters store whenever I see one. I have a quick squiz to see what the local specialties are then I’m on my way. I can report that the Forest Hill branch of this home grown Aussie business isn’t hiring. At least that’s what they told the perky passionate people person girl

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From: Mugshots The Smoking Gun

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UrineUrine is produced by the kidneys, and plays a vital role in maintaining homeostasis by removing excess water, electrolytes such as sodium, chloride, potassium, and calcium ions, urea and other metabolites from the blood. Urine excreted by healthy kidneys is sterile. UsesHuman urine has energising and strengthening properties which make it most useful for treating many deficiencies. Although

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"..Sometimes it's hard to be a man.."Astute observers will spot Tom Waits connection in pic.

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Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers.Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats. "Porn is a weak test for the success of participatory media - it’s like tapping a mike and asking, “Is it on?” If you’re not getting porn in your system, it doesn’t work. Activism is a stronger test - if activists are using your tools, it’s a pretty good indication

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Mobile phone plans seem to be designed to drive people to despair or at least confuse one enough to defer switching to another day. Even economists like Joshua Gans and Nic Gruen , who no doubt have hundreds of research assistants slaving away, have trouble figuring stuff like this out.I‘ve had a reliable Siemens phone now for a few years and seeing I mainly only text and talk and don’t need a

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No doubt most readers will have caught up with the legal, liberal, libertarian and left blogging on Mark Steyn’s right to turn a phrase as he pleases about what pleases him not.I don't much read Steyn’s current writings on politics. He’s not to my taste and I reckon his writing has gone downhill. I should add the usual disclaimer; as much as I disagree with what he says at times, I would defend

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This is a photo of my mother taken about 1924. The whole family has always admired this and I have it hanging framed in my hallway for all to see. I've loved it ever since I was a little kid.

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The other day I bought an external USB hard drive enclosure that will do both IDE and SATA. Only $45 at my local computer shop. Looks pretty spiffy with shiny black case and blue led light.Anyway I needed to find out more info than was on the bit of paper that came with it. So I googled "Ritmo Quiro External 3.5 Hard Drive enclosure". One of the pages gave me this:Ritmo QUIRO 3.5" IDE/SATA USB

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Tomorrow Bob Dylan will turn 67. Thanks for all the goodtimes Bob. And thanks for giving all smalltown youths a chance to dream. Not only of being yourself but becoming somebody else as well and impacting on almost the whole known world. Dylan Days In Hibbing Minnesota

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Forgotten I ordered them. They arrived last night from Amazon.Robert Johnson, Mythmaking, and Contemporary American Culture (Music in American Life)"Patricia R. Schroeder; Hardcover Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) David Smay Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3)Carl WilsonThe whole 33 1/3 series is marvellous and at around aus$10 a throw I'll be chucking at least

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I've upped a big bunch of Beijing Bicycle photos at Melbourne Cyclist

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Looking down our Hutong.Looking out our bedroom window onto courtyard.Looking across courtyard to bedroom.Beijing's hutongs are intricate maze-like lanes, made up of courtyard houses built with incredible attention to detail in accordance with the principles of feng shui. Hutong is a Mongolian word meaning water well, indicating that homes like these were built around wells since the 13th century

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Not only am I good at the lingo like Kev, I also have acquired Beijinger aspirations. I want what all Beijingers want - a black Audi A6 with blacked out windows:If I can't afford the Audi I'll settle for a Police bike: Or an electric bike: Or if I can't afford that I'll settle for a rusty but trusty old Flying Pigeon like everyone else. 

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For Harry Clarke.It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that bling. There are a bunch of audio / home theatre shops near XiSi Crossing in Xicheng.

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Speakers and ValueI was going to save this and write a longer post. But a few people have been nagging me. So here is the quick and dirty version.Most decent speaker drivers are a comodity product all made by a few manufacturers. Most boxes and crossovers are designed and made overseas and a very large part of the cost is transport to import a large box. Added to this wholesaler and retailer

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Listening, Speaker Placement and Room DampeningI’m sorry it’s taken me so long to post no 2. I’m also off to Beijing tonight and so possibly won’t even be able to access blogspot due to censorship, for about the next 10 days.The practical exercises herein require no one else in the house except you and your helper for a good 4 – 5 hour afternoon. The helper will need to be a sympathetic audio nut

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  > How To Bandage A Handpause. paws. afk.one armed pundit. two days or so 'til digits recomence digital dancing. see above for reasonable fascimile.

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People often come to me and ask “Unca FX tell me how I can get good music sound cheaply”. Ignoring the implied cheapskate slur and choosing instead to accentuate the positive implication that I know a bit about good sound I usually oblige. So when Shaun from Rock n Roll Damnation and Lardarse Rodeo and Harry Clarke from Kalimna who also spends a lot of time here sent out plaintive bleats on the

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For a long time I've lamented the demise of the "quality" novelty song. I haven't heard one around for years. Maybe Ween's Pushin th' Little Daisies. But not much of any substance that has everyone from grannies to kinda kids singing it like Ahab the Arab (now there's one due for revival) or Snoopy and The Red Baron, or Monster Mash or the daddy of them all Purple People Eater.A good novelty song

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Forgot to mention the boy - Moroccan Kings - is on tonight at Ruby's Lounge Belgrave.See ya soon.

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They're young, it's loud, it's heavy, it's tight, it's at the Espy, he's my kid, I'll be there, it's free.What more can you ask for. You're invited

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Know what this is below?1 (Bottom, Longer): H×INT((P+2)÷2)+V×P+L2 (Second, Shorter): H×INT((P+1)÷2)+V×(P−1)+LYou're right. It's the formula for getting the lace length right for Bi-Colour Lacing.The most famous Shoelace site in the world is run by Ian Fieggen, a Melbourne bloke. It includes 33 different ways to lace shoes, plus comparisions of lacing methods by comfort, difficulty, visual appeal

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The other day we were at what I suppose was Jen & Ken's (Spanish Style) Kitchen Tea and TonyT had hijacked the convo towards fillums. Mel Brooks came up and Cat on Tin Roof then Singing in the Rain.I supplied a small rant on the Art Deco style of Top Hat from intro lettering, to room design to music to clothes and even how Fred dances rectilinear and not, say, Art Nouveau and curvy like Gene

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For Shaun CroninFans, under signage and behind cameras, and smokers on crutches, in low key homage. Adelaide visitor snaps memories of vibrant lane culture to take home.(As always. Click on image for more involving experience)

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"Nah.Yeah. No I haven't moved far. Born,brought up and went to school in Resso. Now I've moved to Tommo."View Larger Map

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Director Alan Parker and a smattering of the non-stars of The Commitments reminisce about the "small film with a big heart and a foul mouth". The best backstage story comes when it emerges that Van Morrison was briefly considered for the role of Joey "The Lips" Fagan. According to writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (of Porridge fame) Morrison, the soul of charm as ever, began their meeting

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Singer Van Morrision is a dad again.His wife Michelle Rocca gave birth to a baby boy in Mount Carmel at the weekend but details have just emerged.The couple had kept the pregnancy a secret from the public as they did with their first child - a baby girl who was born last year.No other details of the new arrival were revealed.From Radio Telefís ÉireannEolas faoi RTÉIs Craoltóir Seirbhíse Poiblí é

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My favourite grumpy old musical pioneer and genius was 62 on Friday. All the best Ivan George. The big surprise is that Van is, allegedly, a father again. His partner, the extremely attractive TV presenter and former Miss Ireland, Michelle Rocca and Van are said to be the parents of 17 months old Aibhe Rocca Morrison. Silly old bugger. Serves him right to be up all night I say. Anyway happy

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I'm sick of these politicians.Outflanked by Howard on the pork barrelling and throwing money at any project dreamt up by a rural town of less than 10,000 people Rudd and his spin doctors have cynically either constructed an "incident" out of two pots of light beer and a walk past a lap dancing venue or they have resurrected one of the total of three known occasions of Kev's actual and real nights

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bob melbourne reviews

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Rod Laver Arena  Melbourne August 17, 20071. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Bob on electric guitar)2. It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob on electric guitar)3. Watching The River Flow (Bob on electric guitar)4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on electric keyboard and harp)5. John Brown (Bob on electric keyboard, Donnie on banjo, Tony on standup bass)6. The Levee's Gonna Break (Bob on electric keyboard, Donnie on electric

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Above: Buddy Guy as Hogman Patin in the film.Further signs that things are generally on the up and up.  In addition to James Lee Burke having a new Robicheaux book out in USA [see post below] the second Robicheaux film based on In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead is in post production.The first, and so far only film, is Heaven’s Prisoners a goldmine of bayou scenery and well cast minor

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Clues:1 - I hope it rains over the weekend for about 4 hours2 - I'll light a fire3 - I'll crack a good red4 - I have all the other works5 - It's the first hardback of this cat I've owned6 - It landed on my doorstep today7 - Cost au$26 landed8 - Took only a week to get here9 - No release date yet for Australia10 - I'm smugLast paragraph of the first chapter:" But that was before Katrina. That was

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Often someone else says it better. From John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine:" Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It's déjà vu all over again. And since this moment in time is only the beginning of the cycle, the best nuttiness has yet to

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I'm on a bit of a J.P Donleavy kick. Everyone knows that the Shane McGowan/Pogues Fairytale of New York, beside being possibly the best song written in the last 50 years, was named after J.P's novel of the same name.He's just turned 80, J.P. not Shane, and he was on BBC Desert Island Discs back in March.Here's his Desert Island list:1. The Water of Tyne: Farnham Youth Choir2. Oh Susannah: The

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The great Etta James is off the B.B. King Blues Festival tour as she recovers from complications stemming from abdominal surgery. She has been replaced on the tour by Little Richard, two years older than her at 71.The 69-year-old James is reported to be in a stable condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is suffering post-operation complications from mid-June abdominal

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A couple of recent retail encounters have left me bothered and bewildered but not bewitched. Some retail people are either willfully ignorant or simply liars.The other week. Suburban shopping strip and hub. Strolling into the OPSM eyewear shop I ask if they have any Silhouette rimless glasses like the ones I already have. Rimless, light, fold flat and will fold into a flat hard case that is light

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I've buggerised around and done something like this:But I could have done something like this:I read all this and more but it still hasn't stopped the annoying buzz I get when listening to AM Radio.Don't laugh. Some people not only still listen to AM Radio but actually care about fidelity.

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Fred Neil at Cafe Wha? 1961 accompanied by Karen Dalton and young folkie Bob DylanThe Rough Guide to Bob Dylan, 2nd edition, Nigel Williamson.This is surprisingly good. A good buy for the person that doesn't have much DylanLit. It covers most of the better written stuff and has a good album guide and a comprehensive collection of useful bits and pieces by Williamson who is respectful but not

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Illustrations for an article on train travellers in XPAT Magazine Taiwan

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From Saturday's AGE. This pic accompanied an article on restaurant food standards breaches.Advice for bloggers* usually suggests posting regularly. I'm sure other advice would suggest that after a brief absence one should slide slowly back into gear by first posting a cat pic. No doubt another bit of advice would be to try and remember both your login and password.* in a boytonesque** flourish my

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Climate change. Rain. Soaked. Rising tide lifts all boats.Bet best blogs become bogged bound becalmed but better by bouncing back.Be Back.

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Please could you treat the post below as a Friday Cat Blog for this week. Thank you.

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John Samborski's cat, Shadow, is accused of scaring away letter carriers. THROUGH rain, sleet or snow, sure. But the mail doesn't get through when Shadow the house cat is around. Unfortunately for Shadow's owner, John Samborski, the animal's the reason a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail directly to a Winterton Avenue bungalow.Thursday, Samborski received a notice from Canada Post stating

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Old Bogan Gate Railway Station converted to craft shop Like me, many others are fascinated with news articles on what appears to be domestics and particularly on shootings that don't seem to add up and those with more than a suggestion that the backstory may be just as interesting as the reported incident. All the more fascination then that one such incident should happen at a place of about 200

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These cats at Across The Rooftops seem to get around a lot and blog on Melbourne music and gigs.

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I'm slackjawed to discover there is a category of crime called "most people killed in an education/campus massacre in USA".Why doesn't anyone burst into an aged care home and slaughter 30 residents?I'm all for draconian gun laws.I salute John Howard for his effort after Port Arthur.I'm a bit out of practice, but just for the record I can outshoot most right to bear arms gun huggers. And I have

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It's the 15th Annual Apollo Bay Music Festival from 20th - 22 of April this year. We'll be going. Missed it last year and some other times but we have attended most of them.It started off as a sort of an after party the following  weekend if I rememeber correctly, to Portland Folk Festival and as a point of difference and music taste billed itself as a Blues and Jazz festival. And blues and jazz

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Had a CAT Scan. No. Not that sort Virginia.Oops. Not that sort either.This sort. Where you also get a DVD of all the images so you can race home, download AMIDE and view all the images and confidently and usefully self diagnose. Before finding out that the wonderful IrfanView can read .dcm images anyway. Here's my inner being revealed below. Oh and the Wedding.

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I dreamt that Gillian Welch asked me out on a date.

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ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II TO H.E. Mr. BRIAN THOMAS BURKE, THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRALIA TO THE HOLY SEEMonday, 31October 1988Mr Ambassador,I am happy to accept from Your Excellency the Letters accrediting you as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Australia to the Holy See. In offering you a warm welcome, I wish also to thank you for the cordial greetings which you

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