Why do they call them Hash Browns, and not Spud Nuggets? (Random thoughts at a buffet, after Owen consumed his 12th or 13th hash brown – and before he asked if he could smuggle a few out in his pockets)
Category: Pondering
Toilet etiquette
With that title, I realise this could be a long list. For now it’s just a single observation.
Quite the secret
In my household of five people (3 adults), it’s become clear I’m the only person who knows the recipe for making ice. There are perpetual empty ice trays in the freezer til I notice the need for ice. Maybe my family are close to the age where I can confidently pass on that secret family […]
Quite telling
I generally don’t think of myself as unintelligent. But today, during a meet & greet with a new colleague, I made a note of his legal studies major, where I incorrectly spelled “intellectual” (property).
Getting old
This getting old stuff is really to starting to hit home. In the mirror I just noticed, I am getting wrinkles in my balding hairline. Two singular activities I once never even anticipated for myself. Let alone them both taking hold simultaneously.
Syllable Soliloquies
I have enjoyEd documenting the occasional moment or observation in the form of Haiku. Haikus are poems that follow a strict, concise three-line format. They appear simple on the surface, but there is always a challenge to capture the essence of something in 17 syllables. No more, no less. I’ve brought here the ones I […]
Farcical Recognition
Our community Facebook group recently had one member post images of alleged shoplifters, and even asked for their names, or perhaps it was just for the purpose of shaming the pair into oblivion. Unsurprisingly a huge community uproar ensued, with only a couple of people questioning if it’s an appropriate use of the channel. What […]
A long day
Marvelling at the Sun’s beauty again, I realise, my commute extended from dawn til dusk. With a 7am departure, a peaking sliver of pink peach rose to my right. Along the journey, a tall sky inhaled it up to a full circle of orange. My 8pm return, the same peach – once more on my […]
Condoning the Gaps
Today Australia’s Productivity Commission released their scathing annual report on the lack of progress and multiple failings in Closing the Gap in inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Guardian Australia (2024), Closing the Gap will fail without ‘fundamental change’, scathing report finds). This is the anti-Voice landscape we now live in. Indigenous […]
Review: Gotta Get Theroux This
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television written by Louis TherouxMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A fascinating backstory, and journal of process and progression from someone I think I always admired. Louis’s humble and raw account of his major accomplishments encouraged me to watch and rewatch several of the documentaries he […]