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| Saturday, April 7th, 2012 | | 9:06 am |
| | Saturday, December 17th, 2011 | | 2:39 pm |
Drive-by post. Seasoned bleatings and all that stuff. | | Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 | | 3:37 am |
| | Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 | | 12:47 am |
| | Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 | | 7:50 am |
For those outside Queensland..
...its a bit wet here. There is some absolutely hair raising news footage on the floods and there's been lives lost. Everyone I know on livejournal is ok. So far. I should stay ok. The floodmaps projected overspill stops a street away from me, and I'm on the second storey anyway. I was asked by the manager if I wanted to move to a vacant ground floor unit six months ago so I could keep a pet. One reason I didn't was because I had the silly nagging premonition that it would flood... | | Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 | | 3:22 am |
My journal is suffering from a Random Russian Friending. Whoever evkunc is, they haven't made a journal posting since August, and have written nothng anyone has seen fit to comment on, which suggests its a bogus journal. I know I'm not the first to have this problem; did they go away when you posted that creepy watchers that don't introduce themselves weren't welcome? I wonder what it costs to translate a couple of words into Cyrillic. | | Saturday, September 25th, 2010 | | 10:37 pm |
To Write Love on Her Arms
Things aren't so good right now. A while ago I tried forcing myself out several times a week. There were many invitations to things, many birthdays. It was fun and I DID decide to test to destruction what my limits were. Well, its more of a whimper than a bang. Devitalisation, depression yadda yadda. What happens every time I attempt a project; months of recuperation. What's weird was that it was totally selfish. I just wanted to have fun. Not fundraise for a charity. Not volunteer to work a show. Not help a friend out with their business. I did have fun doing all of those things despite the stress level. Pretty much doing anything involves running a gauntlet of light and movement that is a strain on my nervous system. My friends are really considerate, but the process of getting anywhere that involves any sort of transport that has lights on it, in it,or around it, is always some level of strain. It seems hardly worth it just to have fun. Still, I have seen some great acts, sat out in backyards and seen kids and dogs play; got to wish people happy birthday, and chat. Devaluing those experiences is not good. And yet if I value them it hurts more all the things I can't do and can't go to now. A quandry. Yet there is always something I can do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Write_Love_on_Her_ArmsFor the Australian chapter, today is the day. I cannot locate a pen, but have written "LOVE" on my aching right arm in topical eucalyptus/peppermint gel. Can't see it but sure can feel it. This makes me feel heaps better on several levels, as does looking online at all the images of those who have been able to find a pen. | | Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | | 12:55 am |
Through a glass, darkly
I cried all the way home on the bus, last night. I was fine; I knew I was fine; I'd just made a mistake. And the very humanness of the mistake made me feel not alone. Its one we are all bound to make at some point in our lives. I simply saw for a moment in the grocery aisle someone I knew couldn't be there, for he is no longer on this earth. A second glance shows me this stranger has really no resemblence. Its not the first time this has happened to me, and won't be the last. And so many people must be having this experience around the world as I type. I've been trying to find a word for this experience. I can find references to the Hallucinations of Widowhood, and asides like that in Japan, ninety percent of widows "see" their husbands, and it is culturally acceptable and expected. In the west it may be fifty percent, and it is rarely talked about. Its called "searching behavior" in psychoanalyical theory, based on the work of John Bowlby. Surely there are other words in other times and places. Surely the Japanese have a word for it. I have a dear friend who recently lost her daughter, and is looking for a name for a project: a festival dedicated to finding a healthy and meaningful culture of grief, mourning and embracing death, rather than the western attitude of 'don't think about it and it won't happen to you'. This seems like such a good idea, and I've a rep for a talent for the naming of things, but I simply have no words. | | Monday, August 16th, 2010 | | 10:46 am |
| | Monday, August 9th, 2010 | | 11:46 pm |
Fear and Loathing in Queensland Politics
Personally, I think politicians are never as honest as they are at the end of their group voting ticket. Preference deals may obscure their true alignment with the values and policies of those high on their list but they are free to let fear and loathing reign in their choice of final preferences. Greens of course, are last a lot, as there are several small parties whose opposition to them is practically their reason for being. But what fascinates me about the group voting tickets in 2010 is that newcomer the Sex Party is feared and loathed about the same as Labor. That's an impressive achievement. See, I made a spreadsheet :) I get geek points. Unless its link length messes up your feed. Someone can fix me a tiny url, maybe. Also, its not pretty, sorry. Spreadsheets aren't really my forte. Anyone who wants to work on it with me as a Project, raise their hand. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Amqxrp_7YCJWdDEyTDRQOWFfSTVVY3l3VGwzd0xlemc&authkey=CP-r8sIO&hl=en#gid=0Edit: Ignore my paltry offerings; ahmes has made it prettiful and complete, reckoning Sex Party only fifth most hated overall. Then comes Labor, Citizens Electoral Council, Australia First, and last of all Socialist Alliance. Greens are one ahead of Sex Party. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tmKxb1PkQ0Jq6pWZH16PA3Q&authkey=CMytvu4M#gid=0Yay, Science! Now, back to my rant: the Sex Party is a "hard target" for the likes of Family First. They expect flak in the political arena, and you can judge for yourself who actually won the Channel 7 Sunrise debate between Fiona Patten and Wendy Francis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS_gR6ahd3oIt was certainly more entertaining than the official Leadership Debate between Liberal and Labor, even if it still gives you the inclination to throw things at the screen. What is unacceptable is Family First's lead Queensland candidate's twitter attack on same-sex parents. And I don't belive it was some staffer using her twitter account for a minute. http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/wendy-francis-denies-she-is-homophobic-after-retracting-her-offensive-tweet/story-fn5z3z83-1225903143279The tweet is still circulating via twitpic, with the heading 'Folks, this is why you have to be very careful where your preferences are directed." http://twitpic.com/2cq8rqSo Queensland, here is your party's positioning of Wendy Francis on their group voting ticket out of sixty places. The second number is Family First's preference number out of twenty-four. Different parties field different numbers of candidates, and while there are twenty three parties or groups with a ticket, ungrouped independents are generally preferenced as a block, so are counted as a twenty-fourth party/group for the purposes of this list. Liberal National Party Of Qld 6, 2 The Climate Sceptics 6, 3 Christian Democratic Party 6, 3 Shooters And Fishers 7, 3 D.L.P. - Democratic Labor Party 10, 5 Independent (WATTIE, Russel) 12, n/a as individuals preferenced rather than party blocks. Senator On-Line 13, 7 Aust Fishing And Lifestyle Party 14, 6 Carers Alliance 21, 7 Citizens Electoral Council 27, 12 Independent (LINDSAY-PARK, E-Jay) 28, 12 Australia First Party 29, 13 Independent (SPENCER, Paul) 31, 10 Liberal Democrats (LDP) 32, 16 Australian Democrats 44, 19 Secular Party Of Australia 44, 19 Socialist Alliance 44, 19 Independent (PYKE, John Richard) 46, 17 The Greens 47, 19 Australian Labor Party 47, 20 One Nation 49, 21 Australian Sex Party 58, 23 Are you still happy with your above-the-line vote? If not, there are two sites, belowtheline.org.au or belowtheline.cc, that make it easy to take back control of your preferences. | | Sunday, August 8th, 2010 | | 3:09 am |
So who ARE these people? The Possum Guide to Independent Qld Senate Candidates
You can see what our senate ballot sheet will look like here. http://belowtheline.cc/senate/2010/qld#preferences=Sixty names, fourteen of which aren't part of one of the twenty-three parties. And one just happens to have the same name as a Brisbane candidate for the House of Representatives. Group C Independent: Paul and Mary Spencer. They preference all the other grouped independents, then donkey in the ungrouped independents. They put last the Sex Party, then Shooters and Fishers, then CEC. https://www.belowtheline.org.au/qld/group_c.htmlInterested in tax reform and aged care. http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/business/display/paul-and-mary-spencer-queensland-senate-candidates-for-2010-federal-election,38265,2837Now I'm stuck with the image of Abe Simpson. The word "spencer" made me think of old people to begin with, which at least is an easy mnemonic for their platform. http://bothkindsofpolitics.org/?p=1566UN3 1 SPENCER, Paul - Wardsman 65 Broadsea Ave MAROOCHYDORE QLD 4558 Phone (home): 07 5443 3892 Email: paulnmary1@optusnet.com.au UN3 2 SPENCER, Mary - Kitchen Hand Group F Independent: John Pyke and Christopher Tooley Preference ungrouped independents Mark Smith and Peter Pyke (relative?) and would be equally happy with Greens or Democrats. Can't stand One Nation, CEC, Australia First in that order. https://www.belowtheline.org.au/qld/group_f.htmlTheir platform is to limit the pokies by implementing the recommendations of the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Gambling. http://ozconstinfo.freehomepage.com/pokies/Other articles on this site show support for a republic. http://www.independentaustralia.net/?s=John+Pyke John Pyke is a lecturer in constitutional law and has a website for anyone who cares to know how our political system works http://ozconstinfo.freehomepage.com/jp_biog.htmlUN4 1 PYKE, John Richard - Lecturer PO Box 15869 CITY EAST QLD 4002 Email: johnpyke.oz@gmail.com UN4 2 TOOLEY, Christopher Ronald - Retiree Group G Independent: LINDSAY-PARK E-Jay and GUERIN Lachlan Donkey preferenced(?) every ungrouped independent EXCEPT Peter Pyke, then the other grouped independents, and hates Sex Party, Secular Party and Climate Sceptics https://www.belowtheline.org.au/qld/group_g.htmlIs "speaking up for rural Australia", has conservative values http://www.ejaylindsaypark.info/values.htmlQuick overview http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/business/display/e-jay-lindsay-park-independent-senate-candidate,38271,2837UN1 1 LINDSAY-PARK, E-Jay - Teacher PO Box 683 KINGAROY QLD 4610 Mobile: 0417 715 500 Email: ejay@ejaylindsaypark.info UN1 2 GUERIN, Lachlan - Student This is her son. http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/payout-for-bullied-boy/story-e6freoof-1225713274475Group I Independent: WATTIE Russel (aka "Camel")and DOWELL John Boggling preferences, which he's been asked about on the bkop forum, and I'm hoping he'll answer. Has Labor last, then Liberal, then ungrouped independents, all with candidates in reverse ballot order. https://www.belowtheline.org.au/qld/group_i.htmlhttp://bothkindsofpolitics.org/?s=wattieintention to campaign for a standard set of road laws across Australia, the rights of small business, Motorcyclists issues, and prison reform http://www.chopssplace.com.au/index.php?mact=CGBlog,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=84&cntnt01returnid=64mact=CGBlog,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=84&cntnt01returnid=64http://www.hdforums.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=71&view=topic&postid=236788&forumid=28&tpage=1Interesting that you can run for senate with a criminal record unless you've committed treason. UN2 1 WATTIE, Russell - Self Employed 1102 Bauple Dr TIARO QLD 4650 Mobile: 0418 573 006 Email: camelumcqld@gmail.com UN2 2 DOWELL, John - Pastor 11 Bedivere St CARINDALE QLD 4152 Phone (home): 0415 135 725 Phone (work): 07 3843 5330 Mobile: 0415 135 725 Email: johndowell6@hotmail.com Pastor Dowell runs a charity for the homeless. Oddly his candidacy didn't make their news page. http://mamarenes.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=3&cntnt01returnid=54And last, and in our particular voting system least, the ungrouped independents. They do not have group voting tickets, do not appear above the line, and their followers MUST number all sixty boxes. Traditionally, other parties donkey vote or reverse-donkey them in as pollie-filler between their likes and dislikes,for example: Liberal 38 Independent (Ungrouped) WHITE Mark 39 Independent (Ungrouped) BAMBRICK Don 40 Independent (Ungrouped) SMITH Mark Leslie Chapman 41 Independent (Ungrouped) WIRTH Jarrod John 42 Independent (Ungrouped) PYKE Peter 43 Independent (Ungrouped) CARROLL Maurie But Family First likes Peter Pyke better than any other independent, putting him thirtieth, then lumping grouped, then other ungrouped beneath him. The Secular Party puts them last with some attention. 55 Independent (Ungrouped) PYKE Peter 56 Independent (Ungrouped) SMITH Mark Leslie Chapman 57 Independent (Ungrouped) WHITE Mark 58 Independent (Ungrouped) CARROLL Maurie 59 Independent (Ungrouped) WIRTH Jarrod John 60 Independent (Ungrouped) BAMBRICK Don Labor 33 Independent (Ungrouped) BAMBRICK Don 34 Independent (Ungrouped) CARROLL Maurie 35 Independent (Ungrouped) PYKE Peter 36 Independent (Ungrouped) SMITH Mark Leslie Chapman 37 Independent (Ungrouped) WHITE Mark 38 Independent (Ungrouped) WIRTH Jarrod John Fishing and Lifestyle 19 Independent (Ungrouped) WHITE Mark 20 Independent (Ungrouped) BAMBRICK Don 21 Independent (Ungrouped) CARROLL Maurie 22 Independent (Ungrouped) PYKE Peter 23 Independent (Ungrouped) WIRTH Jarrod John 24 Independent (Ungrouped) SMITH Mark Leslie Chapman Greens 22 Independent (Ungrouped) SMITH Mark Leslie Chapman 23 Independent (Ungrouped) CARROLL Maurie 24 Independent (Ungrouped) BAMBRICK Don 25 Independent (Ungrouped) WIRTH Jarrod John 26 Independent (Ungrouped) WHITE Mark And Peter Pyke at 42 Don't you at least wonder who the hell Peter Pyke is, now? He's a former-ALP State MP who resigned from Queensland Labor in 1996, joined the Queensland Greens in 2003, became disillusioned, and is now CEO of the new Republican Democrats centre party which just missed out on registration prior to the election http://republicandemocrats.org.au/PYKE, Peter - Contractor PO Box 84 SOUTHTOWN QLD 4350 Phone (home): 13 0029 1129 Phone (work): 13 0029 1129 Mobile: 0427 388 598 Email: pykie@republicandemocrats.org.au What about Mark Smith, then? The independent who is a constitutional law lecturer liked him even more than Peter Pyke, remember? And from Greens and F&L reaction you'd guess he's pro-environmental issues. http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/business/display/mark-smith-independent-federal-senate-candidate,38303,2837Well, he's anti-desalination but pro-nuclear. Actually he's running on an anti-pokies platform, like John Pyke & Chris Tooley. (Oh, that's why he likes him.) He's added his answers to bkop questions to his one page website. He thinks the D.L.P plan for asylum seekers is a good idea, which I personally don't, but what I think is a brilliant idea for an ungrouped independent is directing the preferences of his followers by putting his own sixty numbered ballot sheet on a pdf on his website. http://marksmithforsenator.com/blog.htmSMITH, Mark Leslie Chapman Independent Broadcaster PO Box 277 ASHMORE QLD 4214 Phone (work): 0410 687 600 Mobile: 0410 687 600 Email: musicradio@matilda.net.au So, Mark White, Senate Independent. Don't confuse him with Mark White the Family First House of Reps candidate for Brisbane. And remember, its not that Liberal likes him, they just donkey voted the ungrouped independents. Do Shooters and Fishers seem to like him and Greens dislike him for any particular reason? He runs a business in Yeppoon and his local issues are water, infrastructure, fishing, estuary management, and sustainable tourism. He sounds like a reasonable person; maybe I'll ask him why he's preferenced the way he is. Not that he'll necessarily know. He's also answered the bkop questions on his site http://markwhite.org.au/?page_id=21WHITE, Mark Independent -Business Owner PO Box 808 YEPPOON QLD 4703 Mobile: 0439 098 310 Email: markwhite@ultrafast.com.au I've fluked the first three in Secular Party preference order, so I'll continue that way. Google tells me he's a previous independent candidate for Qld state elections: Moncrieff in 2001, Broadwater in 2006. No idea beyond that. No email listed with the AEC. Might not be computer literate and just prefers electioneering to lawn bowls in his retirement. CARROLL, Maurie Independent - Pensioner 9/22 Madang Cres RUNAWAY BAY QLD 4216 Phone (work): 07 5529 0840 WIRTH, Jarrod John lists no contacts at all with AEC, only that his job title is Director. There is a Jarrod Wirth on facebook with a link to a website about a motion picture project, and a like of a wildlife rescue organisation. His profile picture shows a red bearded man in a wizard's hat. Rincewind? Using my googlestalker powers, I can tell you where he works and what his mobile is, because there is a picture of probably the same red bearded man. http://www.rtss.com.au/contacts.htmBut I couldn't be bothered ringing him up and asking him what his policies are. He deserves to be pollie-filler if he can use facebook but can't even give us a hint there. BTW, Liberal has friggin' GOOGLEJACKED the names of all the independents. Search and see. Don Bambrick is running a sustainability campaign and is preferencing Greens, who are not returning the favour. Why would they be lukewarm about him, and Secular Party put him last of all? I am seriously wondering if any of the above parties researched the ungrouped independents or just randomised them. He has a facebook page where he's invited you after answering the bkop questions. AEC lists him as unemployed, but he lists 20 years in Queensland forestry with the last 6 as research overseer. http://bothkindsofpolitics.org/?p=1798http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/business/display/don-bambrick-independent-federal-senate-candidate,38302,2837BAMBRICK, Don Independent - Unemployed 104 Childs Rd BYFIELD QLD 4703 Phone (work): 0457 139 449 Email: donforsenate@yahoo.com.au http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Bambrick-sustainability-campaign/103944266327087#!/pages/Don-Bambrick-sustainability-campaign/103944266327087?v=info | | Sunday, July 25th, 2010 | | 11:50 pm |
Catterel
My friend's cat's exercise is negligible Which explains why she's shaped like a dirigible | | Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | | 8:16 am |
Happy Nerfdays
Aw, that's sweet. But alas, my writing is more like a dirty windowpane. I have just discovered that Orwell's rules found their way uncredited into how I learned to write advertising copy. http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/george-orwells-5-rules-for-effective-writing/I promised myself I would blog when I had a home computer again. I've been reasonably active this past week, which conveniently gives me something to say. Mostly it centres around toy shopping. The fourth of July is my goddaughter's birthday, as well as her mother's. I've been spending a lot of time at their place on Bribie lately. One reason is that they are prepared to drive me to the chiropractor I saw at Woodford Folk Festival that made such a difference but unfortunately lives in inaccessible Landsborough. We all get treated and feel better. Missedangel is kind enough to drive me there too, sometimes, but we can't convince her to experience it herself. I tend to have violent and painful reactions to adjustments and whinge half the way home, but that shouldn't put anyone off. My nervous system is just special. Missedangel took Drjon and I to Landsborough after we went to the Abbey Medieval Fair this Sunday, rationalising that if we are going on a huge drive anyway, we may as well go for an epic one. Drivers have a much different idea of whats "on the way" than those of us that use public transport. I had almost piked on the fair, because I'd rehurt my knee in embarrassing circumstances on Friday. But where else was I going to wear my eleven cm platform hairy alpaca boots? They were an incredibly stupid buy, but I miss my good boots that I lent to a friend who really needed a warm pair to travel in, and I miss having a furry pet. Kitzen's husband and I were searching opshops the weekend before because all she really wanted for her birthday was an original scrabble board. I spent more than I was willing to pay for scrabble on the boots, rather guiltily. I can't even do them up properly, and as the fur is all on the outside they are not really warm. But they didn't add to the pain in my knee to walk in them and significantly added to my Fair experience. I could look over people's shoulders at performers much better. Complete strangers were more likely to talk to me. ("Oi! There's a cat stuck to your leg!") Or at least point and comment to their friends. This is no mean feat at a Medieval fair, where general public may not be accurate, but may certainly outdress performers. "Medieval Elvis" was my favorite last year. This year there was a mailed knight with leather wings on his helmet that looked like bat-ears, and a selection of leather weapons. Maybe he was a cosplayer. I'd love to know. What was a worry was the couple of furries, going around hugging children. Hrmm. We caught up with a friend whose birthday it was that day, and was excited to be at her first Medieval Fair. I had told her general public often dress up and she looked particularly lovely. She'd planned on having a picnic for her birthday, although she'd originally wanted something more exciting seeing it was her fiftieth. Something like paintball or a costume party. I was trying to bring both about by getting her to have a costumed picnic on Saturday where I knew the Assasin's Guild were having a hunting party. Surprise! Unfortunately she had stuff on Saturday and decided to settle for just having our normal Friday coffee gathering as her birthday. Undaunted, I messaged around to take up a collection for birthday nerf guns, and to see how many players and borrowed guns I could round up to spring a fight on her in the park across the road. Not easy on short notice when people are committed to another nerf war, or Abbey, in flu season. But my friends are legends. Also, we were warned the cops can come down hard on you for a nerf gun in public and one guy recently got a ridiculous fine for carrying one where it could be seen. We were a bit disappointed actually that all nine players were back in the coffee shop when the horse police patrol went by. That could have really made her fiftieth memorable. I didn't play. My injury was just from bending down repeatedly to pick up darts. Lame. Literally. However, I desperately want my own nerf gun, and today is the last day of the Kmart sales. One would think I would have had enough chasing around Kmarts the first time for sold out weapons and Scrabble. Me with my love of great flouro lit shopping centres. I fell in love with the N Strike Longshot, because it is a bigarse gun that can be transformed into two if you take it apart. Later, I read the nerfguns.org review that says "the pistol attachment is close to worthless. It gets terrible range and accuracy, and when mounted, it decreases the range of your shots and can lead to accuracy problems. I recommend that you just take it off, give it to your little brother (if he's armed it's ok to shoot him), and be done with it." Of course, this didn't mean it would have been a BAD present for S because it would have still been seen to be sporting to arm her son or whoever she decided to shoot. Maybe giving your victim a crap gun is even better. But the Kmart I got to was sold out of them anyway, as well as scrabble boards. (We'd missed her birthday but with Kitzen giving the lifts we were still trying.) It occurred to me while waiting for her that the biggest arse gun ceases to be much fun in a war when you've shot your six darts, and a better use of funds was two smaller guns and a big box of ammo (which actually didn't get lost in the park like I thought it would). If you googleimage "steampunk nerf" is the little maverick revolvers that come up prettiest, though, and I'd want to paint one. Of course, that's now an an artform in itself. http://www.shagnastylabs.com/apps/photos/Sigh. I probably won't go nerf hunting today, or even at the Target later the month, although I've spent hours online comparing them. I should probably spend money on physio for my knee instead. Much as I'd rather buy a Vulcan nerf machine gun and mount it on a victorian baby carriage so I can get it around. Cyberkook did find me a scrabble board, at a Kmart that had assured me they'd sold out when I rang. I rang the manager to complain, making sure he understood its hard enough for people with disabilities without relying on staff too lazy to check for products. Then I made him walk around and tell me exactly what nerf guns they had left, so I've had some fun out of them anyway. | | Monday, February 15th, 2010 | | 12:55 am |
It's been a few years since I received an anonymous V-day gift to my journal. I posted then that, actually, it just creeps me out. I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but... it still does. | | Monday, January 25th, 2010 | | 10:45 am |
LJ friends can teach you strange habits
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Living in Disturbia
Hello, neglected livejournal friends. I hope the festive season was kind to you. I wanted to tell you that I was going to be involved in a Shoe Theatre production at Woodford Folk Festival for the first time in five years but didn’t in case my body failed me. I did actually withdraw my application, after Willxkemp had talked me into it. I’d talked to the director and learnt that the lights were going to brighten every fifteen minutes as our idol appeared and it was going to be difficult. Then I cried a lot, making it obvious to me I really wanted to do it. In the end, we thought we had a strategy where I could participate. My crazy old lady had a huge hat unlike the rest of the villages, and toilet roll “opera glasses” cutting my vision to tunnel. I carried a beautiful crotcheted blanket around that I sat and unpicked in a mockery of craftwork (it was motheaten anyway, so destroying it wasn’t as terrible as it seemed) and once used to block a punter who tried to take a photo ten centimetres from my face. I was supposed to be set in the School of Arts with my back to the audience, watching an act within an act. Village folk ended up moving around the village and never stuck to one set, so I got my turn in the bar and in the tailor’s and hairdressers. Successfully avoided the dentist and the hospital, although by all accounts the beds there were the best place in the festival to nap during the day. By day two it was obvious I wasn’t coping, and I was told to take the night off. In all fairness it was day five for me, as I had been set-building since Christmas Eve. Plus I had been costume-making and props gathering the week before that. One of the most obscure things I can put on my resume is experience with adding whiskers to various styles of cut up wig pieces to turn them into shaggy eyebrows for walrus worshippers. Believe me there’s a fine art to it, and I was the only volunteer the make-up lady could get to help her make fifty pairs. You need to develop a different technique for each wig backing. I didn’t mind doing it, and was happy to have clearly earned my ticket in before I set foot on site in case of bodyfail. So I actually got to see the show for the first time. I ended up getting distracted by taking on security work and heavying some kids that were flicking yo-yos at the actors, but I did see most of it before being told again to stop working, whereupon I crashed out behind the greenroom in the director’s bed in the air conditioned demountable until woken when the show was over. The show ran for almost four hours each night, but I’d spend most of my day on set too helping troubleshoot problems caused by the rain or by the logistics of having a floating population of around fifty cast members, as volunteers came and went. I negotiated my move from actor that crews, to crew that acts, by pointing out they would be better off with someone in the greenroom that could be sent out to cover the lead’s twenty minute breaks, rather than casting around for a spare extra. I explained to narrowed eyes that this indeed fulfilled my directive to “take it easy in the greenroom” because I’d go crazy otherwise and there was a clear need logistically. Just as well, as final night our stage manager was unavailable, and her scheduling plan was pretty much in her head, as it had to change each night with the numbers we had. I had the basic game plan down so I was able to step in without having to say to each of the actors “So… what do you usually do?” I never even managed to learn everyone’s names throughout the run, and I was doing better than most. I didn’t get to see much of the rest of the festival at all, and neither did our make-up artist/props/security/general trouble shooter. But we confided in each other at the end, wonderingly, that we did actually have fun when we looked back over it. | | Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 | | 10:14 pm |
Thankyou, Mystery Giftmas Giver
Arrived home after a long day of making eyebrows to discover a package in the mailbox. Kudos to the postie for wedging it in there rather than leaving a card and making me go to the nearest post office to pick it up. While it fitted neatly inside, it was somewhat bigger than the opening to the mailbox, which seemed to have a slightly crabpot-like effect, narrowing on the way in. It was a chinese puzzle to remove the parcel, but I managed without resorting to dismantling the box inside the mailbox. Someone has been shopping at gothfoxdesigns.etsy.com, purveyers of Unique Hand Sewn Nipple Pasties, according to the enclosed very decorative business card. I could have raised a lot of eyebrows at this if I hadn't packed them in a shoebox, and added them to Woodford costuming and makeup. It turns out they also make sequined and feathered eyepatches, and I am the proud possessor of one. Its a very thoughtful gift and I'm very pleased. But as I can think of any number of reasons why friends of mine might be browsing that site (they are a dancer/they are a crafter/they are a goth/they are a pervert/they are any combination of the previously mentioned or /one of the people who love them) your identity is quite secure, and I can only thank you this way. EDIT: Or they could be no combination of the above but know I could do with an eyepatch. :) Thanks, Cyberjedi! Its the season to come home to interesting surprises. I had a book I won online delivered yesterday. The day before that, there was a gift wrapped present leaning against my door. It had an address sticker on it for someone two floors up, as well as, handwritten, "Red Hair". I dutifully took it up there to discover that my eccentric neighbour meant to be leaving me a present and was using her own address stickers as gift tags. Presumably she couldn't recall my name but that something in the general vicinity of my face was rather red. That would me my lenses. My hair is brown. The gift was a dvd documentary about battleships. I was rather boggled. An interstate friend who visited yesterday speculated that it was chosen by virtue of being an easy target for a kleptomaniac full of Christmas cheer. As it happened, it was the perfect gift for him, and he was very pleased with it even knowing someone was certainly going to get it from me at the earliest opportunity, as I would never watch it. As he had taken pains to give me something I had wanted for a while, and I hadn't been prepared, it worked out very well. Oh, did I mention the surprise t-shirt? Vanilla white. "Hey Sants, I'm the good twin." | | Friday, December 18th, 2009 | | 9:14 pm |
And I haven't been especially good...
I am so much luckier than people who just get their hose filled with consumer items. I got my fridge filled. Its way more magic. Also the gift of empty boxes, which is just what I wanted this Christmas. We have a particularly strange props list for Woodford this year. I'd still like a stuffed canary, a pickaxe, a realistic stuffed cat, and a map of the world, but I'm pretty happy anyway. | | Friday, December 11th, 2009 | | 10:16 am |
Season of Goodwill an' all
Is anyone able to help with my project "Comfy Beds for Deserving Discordians this Giftmas"? There may be a free double bed in Kedron but I need to get to Red Hill. | | Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | | 2:43 pm |
I sit, therefore I cat.
I am out past Brisbane city limits again, in the shire I insist on calling Herebedragons. It's really not that uncivilised. It's walking distance to a Hungry Jacks. There's supermarkets and public transport beyond that, but its the closest airconditioning. I ducked in to avail myself of it on Monday and happened upon Cyberkook doing the same thing. He's rather famous for living on fast food, and I joked it wasn't really a coincidence, but he swears he hasn't set foot in there for six months, and he'd just driven back from the coast in a hot car on his RDO. Saw Sagewisdom and her daughter in the shopping centre too, and am looking forward to a visit sometime while I'm here. My first night of cat-sitting was also the steampunk club, Prometheus Bound. Having not been to a club in a year, I wanted to go. Their first one a year ago had a flash photography ban inside the club itself, which helped me attend, although it was ignored a bit. There were musicians and dancers and people I wanted to see, so the risk/benefit ratio was pretty good. And people just think you're dressing to theme if you have a big black hat, cane, and eyepatch. In fact, I gave up pretty much on finding something steamy to wear, and wore a sundress that was practical to travel on public transport in, should I be trying to get back to the cat in the early hours of the morning. It did have large pockets crying out for gadgetry though, so I walked around the Valley markets that morning looking to fill them, as well as the primary mission of new elastic for my eyepatch. I found some lovely wooden rubber band pistols that fit well in the pockets, and could be a last line of self defence from evil photographers. Also a big white paper fan that I could write "no flash photos" on, but fold up unless need arose. As it happened, it didn't. I advertised on facebook for human shields and people were willing to simply stand between me and flashfests. The only time no one big was available I opened my parasol and hid behind it. People thought that was merely a steamy prop too, and I was complemented on it. Bunnitos was in town and had catch-up drinks with friends that afternoon so I used the opportunity to get feedback on whether to go with the pink lacey elastic for my eyepatch or the leather plaited headband. And if leather - whether to forgo my normal eyepatch and use instead the studded leather with the reclining naked woman riveted to it that normally graces trucker's mudflaps. It was a keyring decoration I'd found on my travels. Not very Victorian, but, the table argued, this is Neo-Victorian. And I guess its kinda a cameo. I was sad I missed the cello performance, and didnt really say hello to everyone I'd like to because I'd found a pretty good strategic position and kept getting feedback from those who were circulating about the amount of flash in other rooms, so stuck there. But I had a very nice night. Kudos to all who put in effort. And oddly enough, I want to see pictures Miss Kitty seems to be of the opinion that a freshly opened door is superior to one that has been left open for her benefit. I was not aware that door thresholds became stale. Fine. If I want her to come in - I'll close the door. |
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