One week ago today, my little brother celebrated his twenty-eighth birthday. He had a sickie from work during the day and went out for dinner on Thursday night with one of our three sisters. I called him up before he went to dinner and asked him what he wanted for his birthday. In the past [...]
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Little Man
Posted in family, Music, tagged family, forefold, music, punk rock, Tom Waits, Vox Amplug headphone bass amp on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Wish I Was Ocean-sized
Posted in Books, family, Friendship, Travel, tagged Aeschylus, Brisbane, Broadbeach Waters, Bundaberg, David Foster Wallace, Dionysus, Dreams, family, Friendship, holidays, Infinite Jest, Jane's Addiction, music, oceans, Travel, Woodford folk festival on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have returned to Melbourne after six weeks spent in the sun, sand, surf and dust. I have travelled thousands of kilometres by rail, road and air and swam in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. I am utterly exhausted but it’s a good exhaustion like one gets from working out muscles one is unused to [...]
Read Water Read
Posted in family, film, Friendship, Uncategorized, tagged family, fatherhood, Friendship, Heraclitus, motherhood, Oedipus, short film, Sophocles on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ray’s father, Donnie, passed away in a hospital on the Gold Coast on Wednesday, finally crossing the river Styx after a four week extension of life with one kidney operating at less than five per cent, major organ failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and diarrhoea constant until the doctors pumped seven litres of fluid from [...]
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