In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team

The end of winter is always a sad time for those of us who follow poorly performing football teams. I am not a huge fan of Mr Jean-Paul Sartre, the man responsible for the above quote, but fans of the Essendon Football Club can only but agree. So, Henry and I bade farewell to the Bombers, and paid homage to another wasted season by visiting the Henry Fitzgerald McCracken Football and Cricket Arena over the road. Ezra did not accompany us, as he needed a lie down after all of the eating, sleeping and globetrotting he has been doing of late. Henry and I did manage to expand on out plans for the Ezra Leo Fitzgerald McCracken Grandstand and Indoor Aquatic Centre that we are lobbying our local member to help fund.

Our vision is to eventually to put Geilston Bay into the position to host the Commonwealth Games, or, failing that, the Gay Games. It very much be the ticket to put our neck of the woods on the map!

While meandering around the oval, I did manage to prod Henry in the direction of a decent Father’s Day present for Sunday. I figure that with two kiddies now, I should get double the presents. I am thinking about a flash camera, a trip to Pilisvörösvár, or a whizz bang new computer. To be honest though, I will be happy with anything more than another kick in the head.

Maybe Ezra will have some ideas…

Comments

pusa said…

happy fathers day and what a very cute photo with your son standing in the field :)

5 September 2008 at 15:44

Anonymous said…

Happy Fathers' Day (ours is in June, though when I read your post I did have a quick "OMG I forgot!" moment before I remembered I don't live Down Under).

I too support a less glamorous team (Stenhousemuir - they're from the east of Scotland somewhere) - the Old Firm (Rangers/Celtic) are equally unappealing, and as they keep winning everything between them it's just a bit dull. The Warriors (Stenny) though are a great side - they're currently top of Division 3 (the lowest division in the Scottish leagues) so it's all very exciting, and I recently discovered that every year Stenny Reserves play a team of comedians from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - that's my kind of team :)

6 September 2008 at 17:45

Kris McCracken said…

It was a pretty good Father's Day really.

Jackie, the Bombers are actually a glamour team of the AFL, we do have measures to 'keep it even' though, with a draft and salary cap that make it hard to stay on top the way that Celtic and Rangers do. As a Hearts fan, I am waiting for the day that the Old Firm collapse into a heap!

9 September 2008 at 08:29

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

This will hurt me...

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