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The Big How I Met Your Modern Friends Who Live In Apartment 23 Theory

October 21, 2014by Alex 2 Comments

Date: 18 October Location: Queen Victoria Market, grocery shopping on a hangover and guiltily hangover-eating (Turkish gozeleme. No regrets.) A friend* once confessed that there are certain songs on her […]

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And why mess up a good thing, baby?

August 15, 2014by Alex 2 Comments

Date: 14 August. Location: Patch Cafe, a Paleo-inspired gem tucked into the renovated Studio Nine in Richmond. Coconut latte and tapioca profiteroles please and thank you. What follows is list […]

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Not as clever as you might think

August 6, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 5 August. Location: Emporia, Myer's pretentious little coffee shop on Little Bourke. If I had a licence to practise as an adult it would have been revoked yesterday. I […]

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She had come unstuck in time

July 27, 2014by Alex 3 Comments

Date: 26 July. Location: my couch, white wine in hand, killing time before the cab gets here. Sleep. How long has it been since you’ve been able to sleep, entirely […]

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Let’s hear it for the boys!

July 23, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 20 July. Location: bed. Do you think hangovers accumulate? I used to think not. I used to think that, like your unused monthly broadband allowance, hangovers didn't rollover at […]

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The Long Black Line

July 20, 2014by Alex 1 Comment

Date: 16 July Location: Centrelink Center, Collingwood. I think I’m in love with my barista. No, seriously, hear me out; this isn’t just some trendy rant about how good coffee […]

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What does your yoga practice say about you?

July 7, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 8 July Location: One Hot Yoga, waiting for class with yogi-like patience (believable?) Notable sightings: friends galore. Dirty little secret: I don’t wash my yoga mat very often. I […]

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Phase III: the clockwork family

June 17, 2014by Alex 6 Comments

Date: 16 June. Location: driving down the freeway in the hot, hot sun from Palm Desert to LA. Notable sightings: a roadrunner, the Empire Polo Club – home to the […]

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We could not be more whitebread right now

June 5, 2014by Alex Leave a comment

Date: 4 June Location: on the Megabus bus from Nashville to Atlanta. Notable sightings: duelling pianos, Smashville (the home of the Nashville Predators and my new favourite word), the wrong […]

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Hot Child In The City

May 28, 2014by Alex 4 Comments

Date: Hard to say. Still 27 May, I suppose. Location: seat 26G (aisle), over the Pacific Ocean just about to cross the International Date Line, Japanese Airlines/American Airlines flight from […]

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  • Let’s float, lets glide
  • Scorpion tornados.
  • There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".
  • What intoxicating vanity
  • The Isle Is full Of Noises.

Thought for the week

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time." - George Bernard Shaw

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