Out at Bundoora Pets they’ve got all sorts of small animals for sale – kittens are particularly cute with their playful clumsy moves or their purring snores as they lay about in supa-comfy positions. There’s also a range of rabbits with big felt floppy ears, pet mice that seem to dart about like matchbox cars [...]

It was one of those things that he just kept putting off. It was like the washing up in the sink that had been there so long that the fried egg had become part of the plate. The rotting scraps of other food smelt like garbage and had become a haven for midnight raids by [...]

23 June HDT A fellla in a red HDT team jacket plays with an ipod or a miniature radio as he absently walks along the street looking right past me flipping between stations or songs searching for something as he manically walks on down Greville A muscle bound man controls two dogs a pug and [...]

“To be or not to be, that is the question”, I think of that famous quotation sometimes when I get a quote. I question internally if the person supplying the quote should be allowed to ‘be’ or not as it’s usually ridiculous.  A few weeks ago I went down to the technical fix it shop, [...]

Irish Murphys Clever name that Irish Murphys another ‘Irish impersonator’ pub with Guinness on tap and a band playing in the corner with a fiddle but no tonight it’s Nirvana meets Hudu Gurus 3 piece unit drums bass guitar they start playing in the corner through an aching stack of speakers I’m impressed such a [...]

Scared stiff, stiff as a sheet on a freezing chilly morning. The entry to the drive-through bottle shop is just around the other side of the gravel car park, but I oscillate and vacilate – my heart racing and stopping.”Come on It’s just a botlle of Smirnoff, no biggie”. It’s my turn to be the [...]

The movie was pleasant, one of those chick-flicks, boy seems to desire impossible girl and does everything he can to make their paths cross, but he does not exist for her and then somehow becomes her ‘rescuer’ and they drive off down the road at the end in an open top Chevvy Mustang with wind [...]

Boom, Boom, Boom goes another Chapel street parader, Duff, duff, duff goes another. Car hi fi’s with grand canyon sub woofers, Entire boots turned into pumping bass caverns that bats would not go near. Cars, low slung , suspensions lowered, youths with caps turned backwards, hands in upside down satanic spikes. “Yo man roll wit’ [...]

The Colosseum in Rome, a throng of people out for the show, they roar and sway with the entertainments, the duels the intrigue, chariots race around the ring, horses hooves clamping down throwing up a cloud of dust, the wheels spinning with furious spikes defeating the opposition. Live or die by the hand of Nero, [...]

Sometimes welcome sometimes not. Sometimes waiting for the postie to come by, sometime around noon, looking out on the grey lumpy street, a few passers by, a the lamppost unmoving, occasional cars. Keeping occupied to fill in the time with the internet. Following a trail of senseless sites that lead to each other and seem [...]