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wtf is this growing on my guttering??

anyone? anyone?

mighty mighty gold coast titans

great come-from-behind win by the gold coast titans tonight. they came back from 12-22 to beat the manly sea eagles, 24-22.

good effort.

bad effort came from the bloody Fox Sports commentators who continue to be so anti-Titans as to be ridiculous.

“I’m in shock,” said one tonight. why? cos the silvertail sydney team lost a rugby league game? jesus. it happens, y’know. sometimes, just sometimes, the team you thought couldn’t possibly be a contender, turns out to be a pretty good team of decent players who can pull a win off every now and then. might even make the finals.

shit eh?

nothing new of course. the broncos copped the same for years. probably still do. cowboys get the same, i’m sure.

meanwhile, the mighty mighty titans soldier on. winning ugly, but winning.

ain’t love grand?

manchester united teammates gary neville and paul scholes seal their april 17 EPL win with a kiss. awwww. pic by Greig Cowie

hey, piss off a bull, wear the consequences

apparently a really famous bullfighter is in critical condition because the bull he was fighting (aka torturing) got the shits, and caught him in the groin with his horn.

here’s the huffington post’s take on it.

my take on it is this. sucked in, you arseclown.

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ultra at broadbeach … money well spent

what i’m listening to right now

kate bush … babooshka … ah the 80s … god bless ‘em.

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daily maddow

this and eight other screengrabs were just added over at All Rachel Maddow, All the Time.

prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

dystopia = heaven to me

god i can’t tell you how much i love dystopian literature. science-fiction in general has been the longest love of my life, but dystopian sci-fi? omg, nothing compares.

yeh i did 1984 and brave new world pretty early, but it was John Wyndham who broke my cherry, so to speak. The Day of the Triffids, The Chrysalids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Kraken Wakes, Trouble With Lichen. man was a freakin’ genius.

in my last year of high school my blessed english teacher – Pat Marshall, if you’re out there, thank you – introduced me to Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. written in Kentish dialect as it would be 2000 years after a nuclear war, the book was totally baffling to me until i read it aloud to myself in a west country accent. bingo. and bliss.

from there it was a couple of beautiful pieces from Stephen King – The Running Man, and a totally chilling, brilliant short story called The Long Walk.

and then, most recently, Cormac McCarthy. omg Cormac McCarthy. i haven’t caught the film yet, but if The Road isn’t the most perfect dystopian novel ever written, i’ll walk backwards to iraq. seriously.

oh i love them all.

and now i’m going to take a crack at it. not a novel. a short story. Last Man Anthology has put out a call for submissions. i’m going to give it a whirl, i think. while editing A Long Time Coming.

should be interesting. lol.