So I was watching an episode of The Spackler last night, and I realised just how much I haven’t been keeping up with the whole thing. It’s been… what, three seasons since I sat down to watch it? And even then, I was only watching it at someone’s house, and only because they were ill. …
If I had to describe my biggest transition, I’m going to say it’s getting water from the well becoming getting water from the tap. The well is a wonderful thing, the centre of the community, and it’s a powerful reminder that we rely upon the Earth for our daily water needs. And there’s only a …
I’ve mulled this over for a while, and I’m still undecided over whether we had better TV when I was a kid. There are some truly amazing shows nowadays, like Abattoir: The Fast Fare-Blender, with its incredible world-building and characters. But then you’ve got a lot of trash that looks like it was churned out …
Bah, these people and their events. They think that people should marry for love, and that the day of one’s birth is an excuse for merriment? Such foolishness! Back in my home realm, we had many, much better excuses for revelry, like the seven-day feast celebrating the eradication of the filthy, disgusting gnome people in …
Plan B (that’s Plan Boiling Hotness, in case you were wondering) turned out to be a total failure. In fact, it backfired in spectacular fashion. I knew from the initial meeting with the estate agent that this rental property had no gas charges; it all just gets paid for in bulk by the owners of …
You know, it’s quite strange. You’d would think that Canberra didn’t have any services of its own. They do, of course, because Canberra is a functioning city with infrastructure and all of that stuff, but you just wouldn’t think they did. Maybe that’s just because so many of our team are based in Melbourne – …
As a mother and an avid member of the Neighbourhood Augmentation Group (NAG), I don’t think all this news of a vigilante leaping across the rooftops is good for my children. Tommy came home today and said they’d been ‘playing vigilante’ in the playground, and he’d been using his cybernetic limbs to ‘totally destroy’ the …
Is there anything better than freshly caught seafood? Well… maybe there’s one thing. You have to promise not to make fun of me for saying this, though. I couldn’t handle being the guy who went viral over something like this. I’ll just come out and say it: I like the taste of boats. The taste …
What even is oxygen? I mean, I’m aware that it’s a chemical element, and that our bodies take it in via breathing and somehow transform into the building blocks of life. But still, I ask: what in the blazes is it? How does it come to have these seemingly magical properties that can sustain an …