July 2011
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As fatal flaws go
It’s been a while since I’ve been out to any popular venue in the Melbourne night scene, and a while since I’ve been out in general. Spice Market is definitely a venue worth going for - its decor was decidedly Asian, although it was advertised as Moroccan and Turkish. I didn’t mind. It was pretty. Candles lit a little slope of statues holding candle-holders.
I’d been...
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Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...
– from “The Sheltering Sky” — Paul Bowles
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I have a job next year!
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kiwisauce)
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Water and earth
It’s 1:28am. I’m sitting cross legged on my chair, fan heater on beneath me (it’s too hot to lower my legs to the ground, which I do when I dash inside from my car). I’m listening to a song called ‘burning river’, by a New Zealand boy that a friend knows. An empty wine glass with red residue, papers, a coffee mug with a spoon inside (used for ice cream), a...
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June 2011
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You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t...
– -Roy McDonald (Republican senator), on breaking party lines, voting yes to gay marriage in New York against party pressure, and giving thousands of people the right to equality, June 2011 :)
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Cynthia Nixon On Gay Marriage The New Yorker Festival, 2010.
Only last year, people like Cynthia Nixon was making empassioned and frustrated speeches about her basic human rights. I can’t believe how fearful and close minded people can be every time this issue comes up.
Congratulations to New York, for doing the right thing; and good on all the Republican senators who had the courage to...