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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

This is the lazy man's attempt at pointillism...

All things are bodies in photos—

Phallogocentrism. Davey Street, Hobart. May 2012. A poem... Detail of My Sort of Light , Ander Monson Now I know that everything is a body, so even the snow and the sand and the blood rivered down in the snow, and snowed on again so it's buried is a body. All things are bodies in photos— detail of the left side of a breast and the arm's pit—detail of the sled slumbered under by the storm's leavings. Detail of my sort of so-early half-lit eyelid light that bodies are near to invisible and touch is no longer the sole way of knowing, and outline is all that there is. Detail of your body as it does its morning leaving thing. Detail of what light there is on your skin. Detail of land- scape of let me in please and coffee, warm when the weather's action on this body is less than ideal. Landscape with pear. Landscape with weather and part of a breast in the frame.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

Who is that man?

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything that reaches beyond their own understanding.

Not yet. Intersection of Golf Links Road and East Derwent Highway, Geilston Bay. September 2012. This week I finished Cop This Lot by 'Nino Culotta', the sequel to the hugely popular They're a Weird Mob . Largely the comic tale of rough-hewn Australian's abroad (in the early-1960s), like its predecessor it has aged surprisingly well. Worth a look. C+ .

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Apple juice. Tasty and refreshing. Plenty of natural phenols - chlorogenic acid, flavan-3-ols, flavonols - uou name it, it has it! Don't forget the procyanidins. Who am I kidding? Like you'd ever forget the procyanidins!

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Walking home from work. The Tasman Bridge (over the Derwent River Estuary). September 2012. Theme Thursday ? While I don't mind CONVERSATIONS, I can't help but feel that the inevitable disputes, arguments and (occasionally) scuffle ruin it for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a decent bloke, but when I'm ropeable, when I'm spewin', I'm as cross as a frog in a sock. One cross word and I am as mad as a cut snake. I like a yabber, but not with a galah. Fruit loops, dills and nongs normally get me to do me block. I give 'em a fair crack of the whip! If yer fair dinkum, you'll get a fair go. If you've got tickets on yourself, hooly-dooly, we'll have ourselves a blue on. I won't have ya playing sillybuggers. Rat bags can pull ya heads in. You can rack off. But usually they sit there like a stunned mullet with a shut gob. Sometimes they'll have a whinge, sometimes they'll go walkabout. That's right, they'll spit the dumm...

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

There. There. No, THERE!

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Listen up! Mayfair Plaza car park, Sandy Bay. September 2012. Wordless Wednesday.

It is man's indomitable nature to scare himself silly for no good reason!

Handsome Henry hints at harmonious habiliment. He has his hypnopompic hibernation planned.

Theology is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there.

We spend a bit of time on the beach. Howrah Beach, August 2012. Sunday Stealing: The 88 Meme, Part Two 23. Why do you think so many people cheat? Because so many people are lazy and stupid. 24. Tell me what's on your mind? Having a break! 25. What are you looking forward to in the next three months? Some good weather, lovely walks, a bit of a swim and plenty of decent photographs. 26. Have you ever worn the opposite sex's clothing? Not deliberately. 25. When did you last talk to your BFF? This morning before work. 28. When is your next road trip? Friday! 29. Do you have someone of the opposite sex you can tell anything to? That would be my wife. 30. How's your heart? It seems fine. 31. Have you ever felt like you weren't important? I’m not important! 32. Do you think somebody's secretly in love with you? I certainly hope so. 33. What are you planning on doing after this? Work. 34. Last time you yelled at someone? I may have yel...

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Don't worry, it's play-dough, not the result of the over-active secretion of the mucus membranes.

Little things please little minds.

Flowers. Launceston City Park. July 2012. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... Here's Peter Singer's take on an old theme: how far should the state limit our freedom to protect us from our selves? Shit Apple Fanatics Say... Anne Summers presents a rather disturbing account of the misogynistic attacks currently being waged on Australia's female Prime Minister (some NSFW content on this one). Minnesota Vikings' Chris Kluwe takes on anti-gay marriage politician. My favourite bit of his reply? "...I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster." Did you know that mor...

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

A pair of crackers eating a pair of crackers. Crackers!

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Hitler's bunker The best of Tasmanian design! Corner Tamar and Brisbane Streets, Launceston. July 2012. Sunday Top Five? Okay, here are the Top Five ? Cities That I Shall Visit On My Next Trip TO Deutschland! Berlin Hamburg Dresden Nürnberg Leipzig Kiel Köln Lübeck Regensburg