Read Water Read

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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Here’s Tom With The Weather

The economic repercussions of the financial crisis in the US of A will undoubtedly wash in waves over the Australia markets today.  The biggest drop in Wall Street’s history in one day will create a low pressure system.  Storms are imminent.  The politicians are arguing, pointing fingers at each other across the room, while God [...]

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Sixty Years of the Don

  I have been working constantly in two casual jobs since my last post.  Now I’m on holy days, I’ve travelled north from the wintry Melbourne to the sunny climes of Queensland, two thousand kilometres away.  Arrived on Thursday afternoon at the Brisbane airport, sweating in my suit.  Anthony – my little brother – picked [...]

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Mankind was made for play and danger

The Homeless Yuppies weblog is a node in the job network. In the future, I’m adding bookmarks for various job sites. I‘m planning to centralise all my job network ideas into one site to make it easier to see what is out there for this budding young middle-aged sociologist.
My mother tells me I [...]

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Holy holy day! Heigh ho!

Its off to work we go!
Dig dig dig
Sunday was my day off and was spent at my friend Shannon’s house in Ivanhoe. She invited me over for dinner at about four and when I arrived, I was given a shovel. I was going to work for my dinner.
And I loved it.
Dave [...]

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Dole Bludgers

At nineteen and living on the Gold Coast, I took an acid trip with a friend of mine as was our weekly habit. The Doors movie was on high rotation; we believed we were transcending the finite to open the doors upon the infinite. We were on a Socratic mission, living on the [...]

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Cutting Costs

I have this terrible habit of buying books. I can’t walk past this new bookstore on Sydney Road called the Book Grocer without going inside and having look – okay, without purchasing. The other day, I found four new Murakami titles. The books are on special at this store. [...]

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