Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Three buildings in a line, all showcasing the progression of office buildings across the past 150 years. This was taken on the corner of Davey and Macquarie.

How about a Sunday Top Five?

My Top Five Teams In The Australian Football League!

1: Essendon. The Bombers remain my team. A return to the finals was a welcome relief from a few barren years.

2: Geelong. I did enjoy their win yesterday. The Cats go about it the right way.

3: Richmond. Maybe it's pity, but I still have a soft spot for the Tigers. That said, they used to be my default soft spot team, but their sustained ~~mediocrity~~ ineptitude - coming up to thirty years now - has whittled away what little ~~respect~~ pity I have for them.

4: ...

5: [ahem]

To be honest, I pretty much dislike the rest. I'm drawing a blank for any teams that I might have a positive inclination towards. The best I can give you is a list of those I don't actively dislike; step forward Melbourne, Fremantle, Adelaide and (depending on my mood and whether their club president is around), Footscray.

Comments

lettuce said…

nice contrast in those building layers

hope you're having a good weekend

27 September 2009 at 18:35

Sue said…

Of course you are welcome to your view on your preferred AFL teams...but I just cannot resist saying that I did not enjoy the Cats win yesterday. I think you know why!!! (I am abiding by the rule above..."no abuse please"!!!!)
Thank you!

I like most of the teams...except Hawthorn, Adelaide and today...Geelong! (Not for long though as I do have a soft spot for the Cats. If ever we were to be beaten, I am glad it was them and not the Hawks or Crows.)

28 September 2009 at 01:09

Kris McCracken said…

Lettuce, it was all rain!

28 September 2009 at 12:20

Kris McCracken said…

Sue, I enjoyed the Cat's win, and the tears of the annoying Saints fans. The world would stop turning if the Saints ever won anything, it's against the laws of nature!

I do have a privileged list of REALLY hated teams: Collingwood, Carlton, and Hawthorn; with honourable mentions to Port and Sydney.

28 September 2009 at 12:23

Sue said…

You are soooo right! It would probably make the world spin in the opposite direction if the Saints won a flag! It's funny...it all seemed so important on Saturday morning and now...well, couldn't give a rat's! Aaah, life!

28 September 2009 at 18:34

Kris McCracken said…

It could have been worse, you could have lost to Collingwood...

28 September 2009 at 19:03

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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