We went to a friend’s house for dinner last night and were alternately amused and annoyed by their three kids.
At one point the eldest, who is four, decided to come into the kitchen with the sole purpose of getting some attention. “Hey Luke,” she said with her impish grin. “Look at me!” And when he [...]
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr Seuss
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his [...]
Pop the champagne girls and celebrate the start of a new and exciting year ahead!
As usually I’ll be partying like it’s 1999… I’m just so behind the times.
Have a good one.
Today is the Summer Solstice, caloo, calay. Let us celebrate by sacrificing a virgin and guzzling a bottle of wine or two.
Alternately, it’s Global Orgasm Day - so go to it, young ladies!
It’s also four days until Christmas and that naturally means that I’m outta here! I’m going to be doing very little work from [...]
So I’m an Aunty again! My sister WAS in labour on Friday and she proceeded to stay in labour for almost two days. She finally gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday at 8 in the morning. She and the baby are both fine.
So that was quite an experience. I was there for moral [...]
So I just can’t do any kind of reasonable blog entry today because my sister is in labour. At least, we think so. And last night I sat down and watched a bunch of Youtube childbirth videos that subsequently gave me nightmares.
This funny vid does a good job at capturing the reactions of people watching [...]
I should be doing other work, but I just have to post, because today is - hopefully - a very important day.
Today is federal election day in Australia and I’m warming the champagne in anticipation that today is finally the day we vote the bastards out. Fingers crossed.
Of course, another lot of bastards will get [...]
OK, so I’m a week late. The important thing is I’ve come home. I think. Anyway, I’m boobs-deep in getting back to work and will offer up a decent blog post soon. Hopefully.
Although it is my 12th wedding anniversary tomorrow so maybe you’ll hear from me on Monday.
Cheers.
I’m going away for a couple of weeks. That’s the beauty of being an evil pornographer working from home. You can stop working and bog off occasionally. I’ll still be semi-working but my blogs will be the least of my worries during this time. So I’ve scheduled a few automated posts for when I’m gone [...]
It’s the 31st October - Halloween in the US and increasingly in Australia as well. I never experienced Halloween as a kid but apparently it’s becoming popular in Australian cities now.
Some people feel that the encroachment of this American holiday here in Oz is a sort of cultural imperialism. I’m not sure what to [...]
I thought I should try and join Facebook the other day, since it’s been hyped to oblivion. I figured I should at least see what the big deal was, and maybe do a bit of networking in the process. Unfortunately they wanted my real name and only my real name. And then I read in [...]
The New York Observer has an interesting article on the increasing pressure on women to have children. One of the quotes therein says: “It’s almost un-American at this point to say you don’t want children… It’s almost like saying you’re a communist.”
Well, I’m not American, but I’m not having children, and I can understand where [...]
I had to laugh at this terribly worried article about how the racy articles in Cosmopolitan automatically lead children to “the hard stuff.”
For some parents and one community leader in Gainesville, magazines like Glamour, Cosmo, and Vanity Fair are sending the wrong message.
“You’re just telling teenagers to come out there and get some,” Kathy Imes [...]
In 1946 George Orwell wrote an essay called Why I Write in which he mused about the motivations of writers.
The cool thing is, they apply just as much to everyday blogging as they do to writing novels.
Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at [...]
This month’s feature at For The Girls is about cybersex. It’s a fairly general article that looks at the appeal of one handed typing and discusses some of the negative issues like whether it constitutes cheating.
The article proved difficult to research thanks to the bazillion Christian-based sites out there raving about the terrible dangers of [...]
I’ve read the various newspaper reports about Britney Spears’ comeback performance at the MTV awards. This article says her appearance was a flop and lots seem to agree.
I’m no fan of Britney’s music and she has been completely whacko lately, so I’m normally immune to caring about her. The photos of her in that black [...]
If you ask me to name my most favourite film in the world, I’ll give you two (I can never decide on a final winner). One is The Life Of Brian, the funniest movie ever. The other is Blade Runner.
So naturally I was over the moon to hear that Ridley Scott has released a final [...]
We have new neighbours across the road and, because we didn’t hide quickly enough, they invited us over for a coffee.
Now, when you’re a pornographer working from home in a nice, quiet, suburban neighbourhood, you do your best to stay on the good side of the neighbours and not attract attention. I’m also freakishly antisocial [...]
Spent the evening out watching the total lunar eclipse and taking photos. The lens didn’t cope with the moon as well as we’d liked but we got a few time lapse pics, like the one above. Naturally, as we guzzled our wine, we started to make a list of “moon” songs that should be playing [...]
No blog entry yesterday because I went to see the Countdown Spectacular, which is basically a big nostalgic extravaganza featuring a bunch of one hit wonders from the 70s and 80s.
Yes, folks, I have now seen Plastic Bertrand in concert. Oooh wee ooh ooh.. ca plane pour moi!
I also was privy to several thousand [...]
It’s really difficult coming back from time away, you know. A holiday gives you a different perspective on things, and you start to realise there’s a bit more to life than what you do for a living.
Thus it is that I’ve come home from two weeks away and I’m still fairly unmotivated. I haven’t got [...]
This page makes for a life-affirming read. I’m not normally one for mushy sentimental self help stuff, but this said a few things to me that needed saying, like:
Turn off the TV. How many hours will we waste away in front of the boob tube? How many hours do we have to live? Do the [...]
I’m back from gallavanting around the Northern part of the country and am now attempting to get my brain back into work mode. It’s gonna be hard after all that wine. Bear with me. I’ll be more coherent tomorrow. Or the next day.
I won’t be online as much for the next few weeks, so posting will slow down a bit. I’m sure it won’t matter as all you people in the Northern Hemisphere are off on Summer holidays anyway.
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