Thursday, June 2, 2005long live the revolutionIt's been 18 days since the last post and I have a day off work today so it gives me the opportunity to give this evidence that I still exist. Ah yes there's a globalised sigh of relief in response. Thanks. During this time of absence I have been giving serious consideration to throwing in my lot... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, May 14, 2005your future in the roll of a diceYesterday I finished reading the novel Dice Man. After reading a novel like that it does leave you wondering what options would you translate into a dice game: ie. if the dice comes up as a 6 I will travel overseas in the next twelve months; if the dice comes up with a 2 I will write a short story... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, May 13, 2005neurotic breakdown at an internet terminalI am writing this post at a new fangled public phone net terminal in the middle of a shopping centre and the tight little keyboard is aggravating my neurosis. I am starting to get a sense of what it means to be Woody Allen and, believe me, the experience is far from pleasant. This morning I half... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 12, 2005i love you my solitary readerThe process for accessing the internet has changed at work. Now you have to register your name everytime you go from one site to another and records are being kept. So that explains why I have not blogged in the past week but, looking at the enormous numbers of readers that have hit on my site in... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, May 8, 2005the dice manI’ve been reading a novel called The Dice Man. I think the book’s been around for a while as I’ve heard references to the story over the years. It’s the story of a New York psychiatrist who has reached a point in his life where he’s become bored, stifled and disillusioned with the whole process and... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 5, 2005the hell of other people's holiday dilemmasAt about this time, every year, my boss suddenly realizes that she’s about to go on annual leave for a month and she hasn’t begun to think about where she’s going to go. And every year I go into a state of web searching helpfulness looking for a range of possibilities that correspond with her... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 4, 2005bed time reading in a postmodern worldFor some time now I’ve had a copy of Terry Eagleton’s The Illusion of Postmodernism beside my bed. You can undoubtedly guess that the book does not, by any stretch of the imagination, fall into the category of bedtime reading but it nevertheless continues to be beside my bed as part of my overall... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 3, 2005blogging, orangutans, cursing the divineAbout a week ago someone invited me to an early morning breakfast celebration of “Office Professionals Day.” I declined the offer due to the fact that the whole thing was to occur at 6 am and the concept of me being an “office professional” induces the kind of vertiginous existential despair in me... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, May 1, 2005the second comingI watched an interesting BBC telemovie last night, The Second Coming. The story line was, as the name suggests, about the return of Christ. In this version he was a man who was more than willing to have a pint of lager, a quick smoke, check out the soccer scores and fall in love. In the beginning he... Sign in to see full entry.Friday, April 29, 2005the music neighbours play when having sexNeighbours! I'm not talking about the long running, long suffering Australian soap opera much loved by English backpackers who religiously go to Melbourne looking for the mythical Ramsey Street. I'm talking about the more basic sociological reality: ie. those people who live in close proximity. Last... Sign in to see full entry. |
