There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Waiting at the bus stop for the final bus journey home. Campbell Street, Hobart. August 2010.

Now for part three thousand and seven in our special feature...

71. WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE ICE CREAM FLAVOUR?
Choc mint. I like a nice banana made with real bananas too.

72. ARE YOU LAZY?
Sometimes I think that I am, and then I see other people…

73. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE COLOURS?
Blue, cobalt and navy.

74. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BAND?
I can’t pick just one. One of The Byrds, Grant Lee Buffalo, The Rolling Stones, Belle & Sebastian, The Smiths, Wilco, Marah, Pavement, Led Zeppelin, or maybe Pulp. Or someone else.

75. HOW MANY WISDOM TEETH DO YOU HAVE?
I have two left, the top two.

76. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
Not if they don’t want to.

77. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Tell ‘em Steve Dave.

78. LAST THING YOU ATE?
Kim-chi Bo-kum-bop.

79. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
I believe that it was the Clinical Director of the Tasmanian Alcohol and Drug Services.

80. WHAT'S THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
It depends on what they’ve got going for (or against) them. There’s not one single thing.

Comments

Jim said…

Great streetscape. Great sky.

23 August 2010 at 12:01

Kris McCracken said…

Winter serves the odd one up!

23 August 2010 at 18:49

Lost inside an adorable illusion and I cannot hide, I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside, we could've made it cruising, yeah.

Yes it is Theme Thusday again, and today we are talking GLASS . I've three possible hooks to hang my [glass] hat on with this theme. First, the photo! Yes, it is the river again from an odd angle in an interesting light. You can just make out the bottom, which should tell you that I'm right on the shore. In some ways, the distortion of the stones below the surface reminds me of ye olde glass windows, what they call "cylinder blown sheet glass". You can still find some of this around Hobart these days. Thw second link comes from a trip I took to Venice a few years back. You're probably aware that Venice was (is?) a glass-making centre of excellence. If you have ever been there and taken the tour of the glass factories, you might be familiar with the sheer amount of coloured glass that sits at the bottom of the water there. These fragments of glass have been worn down and had their edges dulled by their time in the water, which makes them ample keepsakes for the ...

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. ...

Happy anniversary baby, got you on my mind

No it is not a webcam, but this photograph was taken a mere forty-five ago on my way in to work. Here you can see a good old fashioned Hobart autumn morning, with the rain pelting down and me getting drenched. This one was taken on the corner of Macquarie and Elizabeth, while I was waiting for the lights to change. Come on Ampelmännchen ! Today is my wedding anniversary, an apparently I need to be showering Jen with leather -related goodies. Va-va-vaVOOM! To you Jennifer, here is a poem I wrote this very morning. Anniversary I love you i love you iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE you I love YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou Happy anniversary

This will hurt me...

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