Wanna join Luna and my scooter gang? Aside from terrorising the residents of Palm Beach we also smuggle dogs across the New South Wales border.
There are two things in this world that take no skill, spending other people‘s money, and dismissing an idea.
If you were wondering, I’m a massive advocate for colours and emojis in calendars.
Hypocrisy in conservative politics in Australia
Only a few moons ago here in Australia the conservative and rather religious politicans embodied by the oddly named ‘Liberal Party of Australia’ fought tooth and nail against marriage equality. A former leader of that party, who also once identified as the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, said on Four Corners:
“There is no question that some of the most trenchant opponents of same sex marriage - all in the name of traditional marriage - were at the same time enthusiast practitioners of traditional adultery. The controversy over same sex marriage was dripping with hypocrisy and the pools were deepest at the feet of the sanctimonious.”
Before this marriage equality debacle, a rabbi who has never made any comments on marriage equality, despite his heavy teachings on so many other topics, commented on these politicans. Originally hailing from Nazareth, Jesus said:
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are."
When I grow up I’m going to start a Hall of Fame for band names and the first inductee will be Reel Big Fish.
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles”
— Charlie Chaplin
This is a Warning. Mount Warning.
The first issue a Josh Withers presidency will address is this crap with health balls looking like rum balls. These two things need to be kept separate and sacred.
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It’s Luna’s third mango season, or as she calls it, Mangomas.
When John McCain lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, he made this humble speech. Humility is an attractive element of any person, especially a leader.
Netflix staffer: so, it’s like Netflix, but you don’t get to choose what you watch, it just shows up automatically.
Netflix execs: wow
Rest of humanity: are you just describing TV?
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“Social media encourages the myth that who we are is defined by the opinions we type. But the older I get, the less interested I am in how well people can script their beliefs in front of a computer and the more interested I am in how tenaciously they go about grinding out their moral existence. I’m impressed when someone can get up every single day, determined to be a better human being than he or she was yesterday. Typing out what we “stand for” is easy. But loving well isn’t. I am not down on typing out our opinions—clearly. I’m only down on thinking that typing in and of itself constitutes an ethical life. May we stop thinking that becoming the kind of person we want to be is as easy as typing “me too” at those we agree with and “stupid people” at those we don’t. That’s a distraction from the real work of being human. And I’m ready to work.”
From Love Matters More by Jared Byas
When you lose the wings you gave yourself
9 hours in Tokyo, November 2019
One year ago today, Harley and I spent nine hours in Tokyo. Shortest Contiki tour ever. Favourite photos are the bloke squatting and the other bloke selling electronics.
For anyone who thought fake crowd noise for baseball matches in empty stadiums wasn’t a beautiful art
Trying to run a non-local business in 2020 = early grave, silver hair, deep familiarity with how Australian governance works, looking forward to a future of never hearing the words Annastacia Palaszczuk again, regrettable subscription to the Courier Mail.
As a wedding celebrant, this is my 2020 email template:
Hi! We start the email with factual text that sucks because COVID is ruining more wedding plans. But then conclude with a sentence ending with an exclamation mark & a smiley face so we still seem like nice people! :)