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I really should wear peril sensitive sunglasses near the supermarket magazine racks.

da Vinci code bombshell: the secret that killed Diana

there just aren't words ...

So there I was, happily talking to a friend in Sydney when my mobile rings.

Private Number. How peculiar.

I answer and I'm greeted by a very stern female voice.

"Is this Daniel Smith"

"Err, yes."

"This is Constable Polly ."

Oh crap. What's happening?My pulse starts racing as I start considering possibilities ( Read more... )

Tonight,
on this cool autumn evening,
as I waited for the lights to change,
I observed.

A gentleman,
of asiatic extraction,
descendant of Han,
performing.

He danced,
an indigenous fire drill,
with elements of Maori haka,
without irony.

( I have a new hobby for the overachieving and the clinically insane... )

putting together your brand new Ikea furniture while watching Fight Club.

There are not many things more incomprehensible in life than a Pakistani taxi driver with a bad case of laryngitis.

My brain hurts just remembering listening.

So, there I am. Waiting for the bus with two serves of vegetarian flat rice noodles and a house guest. Bus arrives. Its the newer style of bus, slightly smaller and not as buslike. Obviously more fuel efficient, but without that "juggernaut of doom" quality older buses have ( Read more... )