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Choke on it, bitch: reflections on infernal tokens of exchange 31 Aug 2009 | 01:37 am
Forgive me, blogger for I have sinned. It's been three months since my last post. But this time I've changed. I really have. I'm going to post more frequently, stop eating ice-cream and be nicer to p...
seeing is believing in seeing better 10 May 2009 | 10:08 pm
Maybe its because someone I know outed herself as an employee of one of the various massive multilateral optometry combines but I seem to be seeing ads for eye wear all the time. Literally all the tim...
No more animals! 25 Apr 2009 | 10:24 am
I went down to the coast last week (or 'down the coast' as we say) with my kids and Jessie Mo and her daughter Boops. The four of us, excluding JM, went to Mogo zoo which is not a bad zoo as zoos go t...
Sprinkles 6 Apr 2009 | 05:20 pm
People sometimes say to me: Nick (because that is my name), Nick, you lead an incredibly interesting life. Show us just how interesting by favouring us with a few sprinkled anecdotes replete with inte...
A few haiku thoughts 30 Mar 2009 | 07:19 pm
five syllables here and now seven go here then five here. A freakin' haiku! Has anyone ever tried to translate the Haka, the Maori ceremonial war dance, used to open rugby games and international e...
A good terramycin is hard to find 26 Mar 2009 | 11:41 am
Is this not the most beautiful spam poem ever? I laughed and then I cried and then I fought injustice and then I collapsed at the weight of it all: From: Dollie Judd [mailto:MargerydevourHammer@ bear...
Words happen when you least expect them but sometimes on the page 24 Mar 2009 | 06:04 pm
A writer writes, always. Except for the dead ones. Two questions have often occurred to me: one, hey, Nick, if you want to be a writer so badly, how come you don’t actually write very much and two, ...
In the lift 17 Mar 2009 | 12:29 pm
The lift up from the basement was crowded this morning. It's not that I don't like people, it's just that they're loud, coarse creatures with poor hygiene and a propensity for starting religious wars ...
It's true that I am no match for the risen living Lord Jesus Christ and and His army 12 Mar 2009 | 01:40 pm
In my mailbox the other day, I found a small piece of paper, about 5cm by 5cm which had been photocopied and cut (all-too-obviously) with scissors. I reproduce the text on it below, as faithful as po...
Putting on the best darn school play ever 7 Mar 2009 | 07:04 pm
My friend David used to say as a joke: 'we're going to put on the best darn school play ever!' It was an ironic expression of the extreme saccharine positivity of a certain species of American movie. ...
