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Depplorable

April 21, 2005

Occasionally I catch a train from Newtown to work. Newtown’s a happy, ragtag jumble of uni students, goths, ferals, women who rediscover or redefine their sexuality on a biweekly basis and can’t help but monotonously explain this in great detail to everyone near them, Lifestyle Channel obsessives and homos. It’s one of the few inner [...]

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Woolloomoobroom

March 8, 2005

We live in Woolloomooloo, a city suburb which strives to maintain a glossy sheen of yuprosexual, waterfront, Russell-Crowe-is-our-neighbour style. Scratch beneath the thin surface, though, and you’re presented with what Woolloomooloo has been all along – a fairly seedy (although quiet) suburb which isn’t necessarily that safe at night. We literally have a bad side [...]

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Bread, Milk, Nipple

February 9, 2005

I’ve always enjoyed living near the city, although our current house has presented a rather unique problem. There’s a small corner store near here, which we frequent for simple grocery requirements. However, should we be after something markedly supermarket-esque, need to hire a DVD, or visit a newsagent… that involves a visit to Australia’s largest [...]

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Questions Which Are Only Asked in Sydney, #82: “Is This a Gym or a, er… Sauna?”

February 6, 2005

When it comes to fitness, I’m just there to maintain myself, not to excel and become some sort of gargatuan monster. Not dissimilar to Kerri-Anne Kennerly periodically trying her botoxed hand at hosting gameshows. No, reducing the body’s capacity to support a neck and ability to fit inside a bathtub are strictly Adam’s role in [...]

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I Got my Daydo from Kayza-Ayza

January 27, 2005

When Adam and I resided in Melbourne last year, we truly understood the value of great neighbours. Up until then, we’d had a great run of near-silent people living around us. In Melbourne, though, we were dragged down into the real world by an apartment full of nerds who worked from home – exclusively between [...]

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The Science of Vomiting

January 23, 2005

Never let it be said that I’m not protected when I go out at night. Even when I was living in the depths of Redfern, as long as Adam was near me, I knew I’d be fine in the company of someone who knows…. well, I’ve lost count of how many martial arts. This is [...]

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Sunrage

January 18, 2005

I see that Latham resigned. That’s a shame. It would’ve been fairly symbolic, war-wise (even though he opposes Iraq), to eventually have our nation spearheaded by a man who gives off the impression of closing his eyes, counting to five, breathing deeply and silently mouthing mantras from his anger management classes before he can make [...]

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Sizzling

August 23, 2002

‘There’s got to be somewhere we can eat,’ moaned Adam, as we trudged our way around the block for the third time. Yes, even though we live on a street renowned for its higgeldy-piggeldy range of international cuisine which can result in varying stages of bowel problems; we are never able to agree where to [...]

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Local Hazards

July 30, 2002

A simple act of procuring groceries from the local supermarket is no longer a safe process, now that we’re living on Oxford Street – not a locale commonly associated with the championing of traditional family values. Around here, it’s more about Glamour Homelessness melded with Nightclub Fever. Oh, and the occasional Dramatic Murder. Which naturally [...]

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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours (Especially if you Live in Surry Hills)

July 8, 2001

As I plunge out of the supermarket, squeezing myself free of the cashier’s desperate grasp on my due change and attempting to re-orientate myself after the relentlessly harsh stoner-deterring lighting, I’m immediately accosted by a salesman. Such an occurrence is to be expected in the delightfully quaint world of Surry Hills Shopping Village, location of [...]

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