Our family doesn’t usually take on interstate jobs, but sometimes the money is really good. A big corporation paid us quite a lot to come and ‘take care of’ some of their business rivals, and they threw in first-class flights, so we figured…why not? Never seen Queensland before. We mixed a bit of business with …
As someone who is a spooky skeleton, I don’t think people really understand the struggles I face. People around me are constantly forgetting that the phrase ‘somebody’ is very triggering, because I do not have a body, on account of me being a spooky skeleton. I would cry, if I still had tear ducts. I …
Animated shows really do have an addiction to complexity, and I acknowledge that. You’ve got a piece of Western media, for instance, and the premise is something like ‘some high school kids are secretly werewolves!’. Or ‘some kids turn into animals!’. But then you get to an animated show and it’s all ‘in the year …
Mavis is going to flip when she gets back from Germany and sees my new model train in the garden. Not necessarily in a good way, mind you – it’s possible she’ll be bowled over with horror, especially when she sees what I had to do to her hellebores to set up the track through …
I asked Master Tiger Sun the other day if we were ever going to learn how to use martial arts to control the elements. He laughed and said that wasn’t actually possible…using Albajerian methods. Shaolin monks were the ones to talk to about that; his methods were about harnessing one’s inner spirit animal. Gosh, I …
I can’t help being an information hoarder. I think it’s just the way I was born. I vacuum up information like a cleaner of the vacuum persuasion then use none of it because I’m too busy vacuuming up other bits of information. I’m on my twenty-seventh night class, and I’ve utterly aced every single one. …
Absolutely cracking episode of Lizard’s Lair last night! Honestly, I’m not even mad anymore than it stole The Great Australian Trade-Off’s timeslot. Now I can watch them both, one after the other, for a truly amazing evening of entertainment. Of course, the star of the show was ‘RALPH’, or ‘Robotic Automated Lonely People Helper’. He’s …
LARP-ing enthusiasts have it rough, you know. The world has no understanding of our passions, and neither is it built for us. Here we are just innocently dressing up as characters from Bored of the Rings and looking for a dark castle to explore, or a hidden fairy vale, and how many of those are …
What good is a view if you don’t have a beautiful opening to witness it through? Okay, maybe I’m being a tad provocative here. I’m aware that this is not a popular opinion, and that many people believe the opposite to be true: that a great view is best framed by a large, simple window, …
Ah, yes… this is the life. Nothing beats a day at the tip, looking for boat parts with my cousin Gavin. I’m not even being facetious here. Gavin has a way of somehow making even the most dreary and inane activity seem like fun. I honestly don’t know how he does it, especially with regard …