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| 02:37am 04/07/2009 | |||
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| Skies and Shoes | |||
| 07:08pm 02/07/2009 | |||
| I've spent a lot of time today staring at the Golden Gate Bridge, waiting for the fog to clear, and wandering along the coast. Tomorrow, I head back into the sky. And then, and then, I will end up back in Eynsford. Perhaps the real adventures are just about to begin: the searching for a job of some kind, deciding upon a city I want to explore, wondering, wondering if I will find someone whose eyes I want to stare into again, and attempting to reconnect with my old friends, and perhaps even buying a new shoe to replace the one I somehow lost last week. | |||
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| Bodie | |||
| 06:04am 02/07/2009 | |||
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| Ghosts and Tufa | |||
| 04:46pm 23/06/2009 | |||
| Currently at Mono Lake, sitting outside the library in Lee Vining, and earlier visited the ghost town of Bodie. Expect lots of photos at some point. | |||
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| Giant Squid and Literary Landmarks | |||
| 05:05pm 20/06/2009 | |||
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826 Valencia did not appear to have any mermaid repellent/bait in stock, but they did have sand to bury treasure under, scurvy begone, rope dust, and drawers full of enlightenment, lack, and oh, many other wondrous things. I ended up buying the giant squid repellent, which I shall daub on myself liberally as it seems there must be a great risk of being attacked by them here in San Francisco. I also visited the City Lights bookstore, Jack Kerouac Alley, and am now writing this in Caffe Trieste. I also visited Get Lost, a travel bookshop, as it was selling a copy of Mundane Journeys - Field guide to color by Kate Pocrass, which suggests things to do in San Francisco. Visiting all these literary landmarks is having the desired effect - it's making me want to write. |
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| 404 Mermaids | |||
| 10:20am 20/06/2009 | |||
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I'm staying in Room 404. Maybe this means that if you looked for me, you wouldn't find me. Today I'm thinking of buying some mermaid bait or repellent. |
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| SF | |||
| 02:24pm 19/06/2009 | |||
| I have succeeded at time travel and arrived in San Francisco approximately 7 hours before I left Auckland. I am experiencing Friday all over again. | |||
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| NZ | |||
| 09:34am 11/06/2009 | |||
| I am now in Auckland. | |||
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| Idioms | |||
| 04:53pm 01/06/2009 | |||
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Are you winking at the darkness, gathering sweet potatoes or less than seven, more than eight? kulang sa pito labis sa walo - very crazy or idiotic. (Literally, less than seven, more than eight.) kumindat sa dilim - to be disappointed (Literally, wink at darkness.) mangamote - to gather sweet potatoes, or to reveal one's stupidity. |
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| Cabaret Nocturne | |||
| 11:47pm 31/05/2009 | |||
| Girls compared toy guns, tiny plastic guns, they drew from their handbags, and as I tried to untangle my hair, after dancing, a girl told me I was beautiful, and looked like a pixie. I was supposed to be a gangster really, that's why I wore a hat. A boy also wearing a hat sat next to me and showed me his tattoo, which was also wearing a hat, but a different kind of hat, and when I told him I was leaving the country soon, he asked if I wanted a boyfriend for 10 days. The police stood by the dance floor, and I didn't realise they were real police until afterwards. I thought maybe they were gangsters too. | |||
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| Adverbs and Friday | |||
| 10:56pm 25/05/2009 | |||
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I've recently been turning adjectives into adverbs, and trying not to make up too many words. In Tagalog, the same word can be used as an adjective or adverb, but mostly, that isn't the case in English, so I needed to figure out what adverb each adjective could be transformed into. I found William Clark's An English Grammar Systematically Arranged, and parts of it seem almost like a poem to me: A list of adverbs not ending in ly. Spending time staring at adverbs, led me to start reading Daniel Handler's novel, Adverbs, and here is a random quote from that: "Maybe she needs both," the woman said, "an apocalyptic boy who draws." I do, I do. -- It was Friday and I had wandered through the fog to get to the tram-stop, and it was thick enough that it felt like even Brunswick was only half there that morning. The sun eventually appeared and through the glass, and through the knights on horses, created rainbows on my keyboard. I sat by the sea and ate lunch, and a person passed by on a unicycle, and I noticed the rock said, "woo", and the sea made me feel dizzy when I looked at it, and there were black stars in the sea, maybe starfish, maybe crabs, maybe fish, I'm not sure, but black and mysterious. I always end up with sand in my shoes. Some train stations I passed on the way back to the city: Hampton, Brighton Beach, Balaclava, Windsor, Richmond.. (I don't pass Eltham, but the name still amuses me ("Elf-am"!)) Later that evening, in the Edinburgh Castle, a friend asked me what the weirdest thing I'd ever done was, and I couldn't think of anything, and maybe I've never done anything weird. Maybe that's the way it has always been. |
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| Food | |||
| 12:02am 13/05/2009 | |||
 I wanted to try white chocolate wasabi ice-cream or perhaps even hot cross bun flavour, but alas, the strangest flavours that Fritz Gelato had when I visited were caramelised fig and roasted almond, and cinnamon doughnut. The Buddha's Day and Multicultural festival happening this weekend at Fed Square is apparently well known for its strange food - vegan deep fried oysters! vegan pork floss! radish cake! I also noticed that one of the vegan blogs that has photos of deep fried oysters also describes a vegan kangaroo BBQ. Definitely weird Australian food. |
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| Point Nepean | |||
| 10:26pm 11/05/2009 | |||
 ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wintrmute and I walked around Point Nepean. I trembled slightly. For over 100 years, the park was closed to the public and used by the military. The first shots in both World War I and World War II were fired from Fort Nepean, and there are remains of gun emplacements, crumbling concrete and rusting metal structures. It felt more like a bunker than a fort, with dark underground tunnels and eerie whistling piped through them. Cheviot beach is also located at Point Nepean and is where Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967. The scenery at Point Nepean is beautiful, with cliffs, beaches, and many trees, and the history is fascinating, but it also feels a bit creepy. A snake slithered across the path in front of us, reminding us that unexploded bombs are not the only threat to our lives. |
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| Zombie cam | |||
| 09:47pm 10/05/2009 | |||
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| Zombies | |||
| 12:15pm 30/04/2009 | |||
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Poll #1392165 Poll the Zombies Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All What kind of zombie should I be? |
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| Reeds, leaves and clouds | |||
| 06:59pm 27/04/2009 | |||
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| Clouds and leaves disguise the secret world | |||
| 07:04pm 25/04/2009 | |||
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| Art | |||
| 12:11am 25/04/2009 | |||
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There were butterflies in his shoes, and snakes coming out of his dictionary. There were butterflies on the ruler too. And the chair? A chair for us to live in. And what's that over there? The Unbuilt Return of Interminateopolis, by Peter Madden. -- The Gertrude Contemporary Art Space has another excellent exhibition on - My Own Private Idealogue, with work by Joanna Langford, Peter Madden and Rohan Wealleans. Peter Madden's work was particularly strange and dreamy - cut-outs of snakes, slithering out of a clamped down dictionary; cut-outs of butterflies lining the inside of a pair of shoes; collages with weird things happening everywhere; intricate sculptures with more cut-outs of butterflies, birds and words, and eyeballs and mushrooms, and records, axes, and skeletons, and oh, so many more wonderful images. -- I also visited the Lamington Drive Gallery and saw the Desiring Machines exhibition, which had pictures of cars, lawnmowers, etc, with crazy extra engines/mechanical parts, drifting out of them, almost like smoke. -- The third gallery I went to was the Dianne Tanzer Gallery, which currently has two exhibitions on. aether by Roh Singh, contained exhibits such as little bubbles that created the image of a 3D jellyfish. Fear of Loathing by Ian Mowbray, was the other exhibition and consisted of snow globes that contained things such as a recently dug grave, and a toilet with a gun next to it. |
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| The God of Zombie Butterfly Wishes | |||
| 10:35pm 23/04/2009 | |||
 Skyweed. -- Due to it being St George's Day, I had an urge to play with the knights and dragons that surround my desk. I'd let the dragon win, of course. -- A butterfly flew by as I paddled in the sea during my lunch-break. -- As part of my job, I had to decide whether God was a person, a concept or a thing. -- I think I saw a wishing well out of the train window. Perhaps at Hampton. |
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| Raspberries | |||
| 09:56pm 22/04/2009 | |||
| I read the news today in MX, Melbourne's free newspaper, and wondered whether it was real: "Astronomers testing a giant dust cloud in the Milky Way say it might taste of raspberries." | |||
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