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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I'll take one of those! Sandy Bay Rowing Club, Sandy Bay. December 2011. Another Q and A stolen from Sunday Stealing . Today we rip off Tom Baker from his blog Morning Erection and tackle The Community Meme 1. As a blogger, what do you draw inspirations from for your posts? The world! 2. If you could swap blogs with another blogger for a post, who would you switch with and why? Someone very, very wealthy. Maybe I could earn enough to kick back and relax... 3. If your blog had a theme song, what would it be? Why? Great Southern Land by Icehouse 4. What is your writing process for a post? Just vomit it out when I have a spare few minutes. 5. Your blog requires a cute, new, mascot: what would it be? Replacing the two cute ones that I already have? Hmmm. Maybe a cartoon saltwater croc named “Henry” and a cartoon great white shark named “Ezra”. 6. Do you feel you express your "true self" on your blog? Yes. Only with less swearing. 7. What is your biggest online pet-peeve? An...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...

Car parks, as a general rule, incredibly ugly. If you're after symmetrical lines though, they can be a source of many photographs. I was going through an old notebook the other day and spotted a quote that I'd scribbled down no doubt three sheets to the wind that I wanted to reflect upon. The source was a - in a sad, pathetic, Hobart sense - a hipster doofus. He was arguing about being lumped in with a cohort that I assumed he identified with: "Yeah, I know those guys, and yeah, we like... we do drink with them pretty much every night of the week, but it's not like I'm part of some uni bar scene." See, for mine, nightly gatherings in the same place with the same people pretty makes you part of a scene. That said, I'm pretty confident that the closest to a "scene" that I frequent these days is a Playgroup scene. So I'm interested, are you part of any scene? Would you care to confess to the world your involvement in any "scenes" in...