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 [...]
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Little Man
Posted in Music, family, 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, Friendship, Travel, family, 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 Friendship, family, film, 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 [...]
Sixty Years of the Don
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bundaberg, family, hospitality, Queensland on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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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Radio National Bookshow- Motown's 50th anniversary November 9, 2009In 1959, a 29-year-old car assembly worker in Detroit, Berry Gordy Jr, quit his job to start a record label
- Ravens by George Dawes Green (review) November 9, 2009George Dawes Green is the creator of The Moth, which are spoken-word events in the United States that feature storytelling without notes
- The financial secrets of F. Scott Fitzgerald November 9, 2009In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash in America marked the beginning of a decade of poverty and unemployment known as the Great Depression
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