Crapple

At this rate, the 4th generation Shuffle will be a cochlear implant.

Form over function--ya think?

Bondi Balmy Beach

Odder than odd: Mark Seymour playing at the Balmy Beach Club.

Five

A wee bit in the cups and all melancholy-like from missing the gels (who are away this weekend)

The indomitable Wings up 4-0 currently in second period of game 5.

The daughter's current favourite:



PM listening:

Anthony Phillips -- "High Fives" (from Field Day)

Just like fucking tweeting isn't it?

Her Lips Are Sealed

The GG takes a break from the rubber chicken circuit:

Hundreds of Inuit at a community festival gathered around as the Governor General made a gesture of solidarity with the country's beleaguered seal hunters.

Jean knelt above a pair of carcasses and used a traditional blade to slice the meat off the skin.

After repeated, vigorous cuts through the flesh the Queen's representative turned to the woman beside her and asked enthusiastically: "Could I try the heart?"

Afterward Jean grabbed a tissue to wipe clean her blood-soaked fingers, and explained her gesture of solidarity with the region's Inuit hunters.

Or, the purple version:

First she gutted it. Then she had the heart pulled out of its furry, flabby carcass. Finally, she swallowed a slice of the mammal's dripping organ.

And then...

Talkin' 'Bout My Re-Relegation

It's not dead, squire, it's just resting

Coffin, nail, final.

Sliced Kiwi

Maori pseudo-scientifically pwned.

Fireworks

The wife and I went to see Animal Collective at the ex-Docks on Saturday. I don't think I've ever felt so aged: apart from one late-40ish-looking couple we were by far the oldest people there. At least Jo received the compliment of being carded by security. Which circle of hell is it where you're packed in like sardines with swooning hippies with b.o., fratboy doofuses and young men with bad halitosis (as opposed to good halitosis)? Must be in the top ten. It was certainly in the top five during opening act Grouper's set--too tedious to be engaging and too sonically annoying to be decent wallpaper music.

The show was very good, although I was disappointed they largely skipped over Feels and Sung Tongs ("Leaf House" was really cool). All of the current Merriweather Post Pavilion hits were there, along with some nice reworkings of older tunes like "Chocolate Girl."



Victoria Day fireworks with the girl on Monday, fortunately making us feel young again.

Taking RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (By Sparkler)

I've Broken Free From Zionist Control

Well, they let me go really, once they realized I wasn't much good at anything.

Police Estate

"I haven't seen a car in a house in a long time."


"Allo, allo, what's all this then..?"

Happy Australia Day