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Sunday, 6 January 2019 - 3:14pm

Published by Matthew Davidson on Sun, 06/01/2019 - 3:14pm in
reading

This week, I have been mostly reading… not cartoons, for a change:

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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 05/01/2019 - 4:46pm
Ah, yes. I've heard of Dr. Cotton. More a man of persistence than a man of science, but that too is an admirable quality. http://thedollop.libsyn.com/290-dr-henry-cotton-live-in-nj #
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 04/01/2019 - 5:22pm
'Twas ever thus. For 55 years, #, in accordance with Cory Doctorow's law that science fiction is always about the present rather than the future (or indeed the past), has been the zeitgeist as reflected in a funhouse mirror.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 04/01/2019 - 3:02pm
It's like being in Plato's Cave here in the Colorbond open air prison. You hear all sorts of fearsome mechanical sounds, but all you ever see is hats protruding above the fence, so naturally one assumes the noises are somehow all about the hats. It is the job of the # philosopher to lead their peers out of their cells and awaken them to the reality of lawn maintenance.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Fri, 04/01/2019 - 2:48pm
It would be a hot day were it not for the nor-easter that whips across the water, ruffles the # playing fields and shoots down the Sixteenth Ave wind tunnel to my house. Which, given the way our little boxes made of ticky-tacky are packed with no thought to favourable aspect (plenty of doors and windows, just none that catch the breeze; sun-struck exterior walls upon which you could slap a bit of dough and bake naan bread, etc.), means it _is_ a hot day indoors, so I'm out on the back patio.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Thu, 03/01/2019 - 7:40pm
Feel ugh. My oral scale model of Stonehenge has an infected tooth, and my immune system is telling my brain it's time to lie down and dictate my last will and testament, along with any deathbed confessions.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Thu, 03/01/2019 - 3:18pm
Ooh. I sense a consumerist remake of Whisky Galore. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/21812
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Tue, 01/01/2019 - 9:48pm
I like getting older. In a perverse way, I've never been happier. I also like getting drunk; I just don't like _being_ drunk. I've managed to so reliably hit and sustain the sweet spot between these two that I fancy if a fellow can master the art of stringing out aging without ever actually being aged, we've both potentially another 50 years in us. Mind you, I like your chances better than mine.
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Published by Matthew Davidson on Tue, 01/01/2019 - 9:34pm
Ah, the land of plenty. Music that stopped in the 1980s because bugger it, that's enough. And all the Colorbond pre-painted steel you can eat. In #, people like you and I can live like princes for the rest of our days. Wait; no. I'm sorry I'll read that again. People like you and I can live like ponces for the rest of our days.
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Australia Day

Sunday, 26 January 2020 (All day)
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