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Something annoying I remember from the endless days of smoking and working is how ganja made me very prone to toppling off the painstaking and yet somehow effortless vertical tower of rope bridge that is ...read more
The strange screeching of tropical birds spurling into midnight's blue sky at 6 o'clock, as the night gathers like a dew, forms like a band, a marching band of strange and unaccountable, uncountable, nasty-beaked bird, ...read more
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An African guy who lived in the apartments near me had the warmest smile always courteous and would wait on the pavement if I walked behind him so I could go by was taken away ...read more
A knock at the door when we finally trudge home, carrying our groceries, exhausted. It's the darlingest neighbour in the world. "Oh, hi!" "Hey Cathoel. Just wanted you to see the last supermoon." I have ...read more
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The number of times I have been sitting in some cafe and have said to the staff or even the owners, Gee, guys. Since you have all of this organic stuff and social justice ideology ...read more
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Someone was asking for songwriting ideas and I came up with these. Ideas are easy, it's the completion that stings. Pushing your bicycle past a house where a particular song is playing. Seeing a cloud ...read more
I decided to stay home from the Writers Festival and read, all weekend, in the hammock. Yesterday I read three Mills and Boons, today I am reading a novel by Dave Eggers. The writing is ...read more
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I went to my parents' place to bring them a copy of my new book. Afterwards I left the house and drove uphill, as though I were coming up out of a valley, though my ...read more
Brisbane is in the grip of its Spring gales and of a morning I wake up to a back deck strewn with leaves and towels blown off the line. Yesterday sharp seed pods rained down ...read more