There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Luxury hotel. St George's Terrace, Battery Point. January 2012.

Tuesday Q and A and I continue to steal questions from Sunday Stealing. This week I am stealing The 99'er Meme: Part 1

1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.
Wilco’s Outta Mind (Outta Sight), Allo Darlin's My Heart is a Drummer, Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls, The Be Good Tanyas’ The Littlest Birds, Eric B. & Rakim’s Paid In Full, and The Hives’ Hate To Say I Told You So.

2) If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?
Someone with some answers!

3) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.
‘“Cornelia Ruiz cut up the black Mexican,” he said.’

4) What do you think about most?
My wife’s thighs.

5) What does your latest text message from someone else say?
“Excellent. See you soon.”

6) Do you sleep with or without clothes on?
I sleep as naked as the day I was born.

7) What's your strangest talent?
Bad impressions of white South Africans.

8) Women.... (finish the sentence); Men.... (finish the sentence)
“Women… can’t live with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em!”

“Men… Even worse than women!”

9) Ever had a poem or song written about you?
Not to my knowledge.

10) When is the last time you played the air guitar?
I’m unsure. I last played air drums to KISS’s I was made for loving you.

11) Do you have any strange phobias?
I don’t have any phobias.

12) Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?
Not that I recall. I probably have though.

13) What's your religion?
I have no religion. Never had…

14) If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?
Taking photos.

15) Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?
Behind. Firmly behind.

16) Simple but extremely complex. Favourite band?
Wilco.

17) What was the last lie you told?
I said that I liked the colour of someone’s outfit.

18) Do you believe in karma?
Unfortunately not.

19) What does your URL mean?
It is the title of my blog.

20) What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?
Stubbornness x two.

21) Who is your celebrity crush?
I generally avoid these things.

22) Have you ever gone skinny dipping?
Once or twice.

23) How do you vent your anger?
Ranting and raving.

24) Do you have a collection of anything?
Only animosity and resentment.

25) Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?
I really prefer neither. I like e-mail.

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...

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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