We're not gonna pay,
We're not gonna pay,
We're not gonna pay
LAST YEAR'S RENT!So I got an SMS on Tuesday night. My ex-housemate Jacqui is directing a production of the musical Rent - a rock opera about impoverished artists in New York in the 90s. Mostly it's about sex, AIDS, poverty, and how Selling Out Is Bad. For reasons not entirely known, at ( Read more... )

So once again, we're buying a house. Sort of ( Read more... )

Did I ever tell you about the Old Country? The songs, Jimmy, the songs! They'd melt the face off ye...

(first song appears at 3:20 or so)

So we're buying a house. Sort of ( Read more... )

So we (and around 75000 other people) went to see U2 last night. In the words of the Prodikeys guy "This is rock and roll ( Read more... )

Cities funnel wind really well. Tall towers, long straight canyons, and little to cause turbulence near the ground (compared to suburbs, forests, and other isolated examples I can think of ( Read more... )

There is a house not far from where we live. In a suburb filled with street after street of what have become known as Mc Mansions, this one house in particular is the pinnacle of the modern building idiom. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you (with annotations) The Ugliest House In Sydney:


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Err, okay. I didn't know you could get nudged, but nudged I have been ( Read more... )

Hello, world ( Read more... )