personal and world news

i have a sore shoulder from painting (houses), probably with incorrect technique. the arches of my feet ache from ladder-rungs. i have rung-ache. i remember reading a robert frost poem in high school that talks about sore feet from ladders from picking apples. i suggested it might be figurative, or at least work on a figurative level. my teacher told me i was being facetious, that robert frost actually picked apples, and it was obvious that was what he was talking about. i wasn’t, i just hadn’t really read the poem.

i spent the evening stretching, bending my body as if, maybe, if i just find the right angle, so many degrees, a few minutes, all of those aches and cramps will be fixed.

then tonight i tried to start a little canvas, but couldn’t remember where i’d left my oil paints. i even stopped off on the way home to pick up some new brushes and turpentine, but they’re no good without paints.

i looked on the internet for houses in various suburbs, idly. i thought more about my post from the other night over how long i will likely stay in this room. the answer is not long, i think. but longer than my emotional well-being requires, i can be sure.

expect to hear about the bomb in madrid that may mark the end to the permanent cease-fire in the basque country and spain. according to yahoo news, a man with a basque accent called it in. what i want to know, is what a basque accent is. far be it from me to question yahoo news, but i do need to query a website which on an article about a bombing in spain, placed an advertisement from the spanish tourism ministry saying ’smile, you’re in spain’. i guess their word-recognition technology still needs a little tweaking. i would have posted a screen image, but i couldn’t remember how to.

and of course, saddam was executed. and photos are already appearing. apparently it was filmed. i think i know what the no. 1 porn film of 2007 is going to be. becaause we just love that shit, don’t we. shame they didn’t cut his head off with a samurai sword though or something. the could have got lucy liu to do it. naked.

 

news ii

• housemate claims news-style post daggy. blogger does it again to spite her.
• sob-story obtains login and password through pity
• hispano-radar way too in -tune. sat down next to girl thinking: she must be spanish. turns out to be true.
• basque punk/hip-hop continues to caude unparalleled happiness. sources predict the infliction of music upon house-guests on staurday.

 

news

• posting becomes extremely difficult as house internet supply is cut off due to an expired credit card and university access cut off due to unpaid fees. fees look set to remain unpaid until employment situation changes. for the moment, the only remedy seems to be skulking around computer labs finding computers that people have forgotten to log out of. i.t. equivalent of scavenging half-eaten things from bins.
• our blogger sits through presentation on a book about oil. in fact, the best book about oil you’ll ever read. jury still out on that one.
• possible breach of child-labour laws as really skinny really white boy dances michael jackson stylez in devonshire st tunnell to soft-playing music. confusion surrounds as employer was also ten years old. prominent q.c. questions: is it like statutory rape? city-folk in tunnell enjoy the irony of child looking more like middle-aged michael jackson than nine-year-old jackson.
• someone in computer labs looks at website for the almodóvar film volver. this is good to see though viewer is of olive complexion. could be of hispanic descent. police are investigating to see if there are any links between said youth and recent crime-wave in sydney involving numerous rapes, drive-bys and ram-raidings. this pundit says yes, yes and yes!
• glad-wrapped chocolate cake bought on whim with coffee turns out to be bad decision for good of stomach though not as bad as feared at time of buying. overall rating of incident: fair.
• word of party at blogger’s house on sunday. worthy types should expect notification via other modes of communication. people without notification by saturday night should consider themselves excommunicated from the movement. either that, or blogger forgot to tell them.

edit:

party on sunday? wtf? try saturday.