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Current Booklust, in no particular order. Many of these I've meant to get around to for a while. It's a busy time at uni, so I probably won't get around to them for a while, but it's nice to fantasise, and have a list to go secondhand hunting on the holidays. You should all make me some recommendations to add to this list ( Read more... ) -
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While there's perhaps something quietly lamentable about relying on The Times Online to send you love letters, I have to admit that they've really been something to look forward to this week ( Read more... ) -
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Tonight I made roasted pumpkin soup and sago pudding and tried not to feel the life ebbing away as I contemplated yet more bureaucratic tangles in a diplomatic light. I think I began with the idea that, with patience and energy, one could still get somewhere whilst working through the stiflement of meetings, emails, consensus and otherwise. I'm not ( Read more... ) -
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Have to love Bob Brown and his snappy grabs:
"Four years ago, Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club," Senator Brown said.
"Four years ago, John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm," he said.Not that I think that'll be the end of it - it seems the only way ( Read more... ) -
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Particularly for those who did VCE English in 2004 with The Third Man"In Italy under the Borgias they had 30 years of murder, bloodshed, warfare and produced indigestible pasta, boring operas, and the Fiat. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese ( Read more... ) -
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Hate ironing.
Just destroyed shirt I like, burned hole in sleeve.
Stupid stretchy material crap.
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This 'Keep Warming the Globe' movement is possibly one of the most moronic response to climate change yet, and that's coming from someone who's lived in Andrew Bolt & John Howard's Australia in the 1990s. Guys. Stop whinging about the fact that political activism uses some forms of electricity in order to get the message across. Not only does it ( Read more... )
