King For A Day

  L’ordre du jour pour le roi.-    The day begins: let us begin to order for this day the business and the festivals of our merciful master who is still deigning to rest. His majesty has bad weather today: we shall be careful not to call it bad; we shall not speak of the weather – [...]

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Donnie G. is Bleeding

Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni, finished playing at the National Theatre Saturday week ago. I caught the last night of the performance with Bella. Through wind and rain we made our way on the tram from Brunswick across the river to St Kilda for a night at the opera. The performance was enchanting. The lyrics were [...]

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Cool Change

Slice an opening at the top, then gently pull the halves apart with your hands. A line from a letter by a former lover, my pen pal, a fellow student of Foucault. Attached to a gift, a pair of pomegranates, sent to me in the mail from Anglesea. These bold letters are instructions for opening [...]

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Slave Mentality

I work for a company that researches social issues for various government departments, universities and non-governmental organisations. The company conducts surveys over the telephone and the interviewers will call private numbers from time to to time using what is called, random digit dialling. Random digit dialling involves simply entering the first six or eight numbers [...]

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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 have [...]

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