Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

...as expected, we knocked the bastard off in little time. Rising one thousand two hundred and seventy one metres over the city of Hobart, we thought ourselves gods for one moment.

Laughing and frolicking gaily like spring lambs in a jolly meadow of clover, we took happy snaps and toasted each other with bikkie bears.

The large radio and television transmitter [above] was a source of great amusement for the men in our party, affording us the opportunity to remind Jennifer of the phallologocentric omnipresence of modern, capitalistic societies. How we laughed!

Skipping through the abundant native flora, little did we know how soon we would be laughing out of the other side of our faces!

Amused by the ease of the task, we made our mistake: mocking the gods with our arrogance. Well, Ezra and Jen were okay, but Henry and I can get quite obnoxious at times, and my weren't we arrogant today. For that, we were to pay a dear price...

To be continued...

Comments

EG CameraGirl said…

All the best in 2009, Kris!

Hmmm. Will we learn MORE about the price you had to pay?

2 January 2009 at 08:23

Anonymous said…

Here it's still the first day of the new year and - as I see - your post is already 2nd of January 09. Time runs fast.

I wish you and your wonderful family a Happy New Year 2009 with much health for all, good photo opportunities and all the best.

2 January 2009 at 08:41

Neva said…

Happy New Year to you and yours, Kris. I have loved sharing your part of the world and your lovely family......

2 January 2009 at 08:56

Sue said…

OMG...what happened? Don't leave us hanging here in cyberspace suspense....!!???!!#@%*#@!!!!!???
I'm all agog...(but the doctor said take an aspirin and lie down and I will be fine!??)

2 January 2009 at 10:57

Sue said…

Zac has been checking out your photos of the mountain and is particularly taken with these couple of pics as he swears that he was in those exact same spots when he visited Van Diemen's Land a couple of months ago. It was also snowing at the time...only it was justified as it was Winter!

3 January 2009 at 19:03

Kris McCracken said…

YEGTG, yes you will!

April, it is a weird and whacky world!

Neva, thank you very much!

5 January 2009 at 12:24

Kris McCracken said…

Sue, I hope that you survived the wait!

5 January 2009 at 12:47

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. ...

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

This is the moon. Have I mentioned how much I adore the zoom on my camera? It's Theme Thursday you see, and after last week's limp effort, I have been thinking about how I might redeem myself. Then I clicked on the topic and discover that it was BUTTON. We've been hearing a lot about the moon in the past couple of weeks. Apparently some fellas went up there and played golf and what-not forty-odd years ago. The desire to get to the moon, however, was not simply about enhancing opportunities for Meg and Mog titles and skirting local planning by-laws in the construction of new and innovative golf courses. No, all of your Sputniks , "One small steps" and freeze dried ice cream was about one thing , and one thing only : MAD Now, I don't mean mad in terms of "bloke breaks record for number of scorpions he can get up his bum", no I mean MAD as in Mutual assured destruction . When I was a young man you see, there was a lot of talk about the type of m...

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...

This will hurt me...

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