What would Cary Grant do? Sage advice.
Author: Kris
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Happy’s Place
The Happy’s Place post just keeps getting more surreal….
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Redfern Mural
I was reading this article about the repainting of an Aboriginal mural at a Redfern community center when I realised that I knew one of the people quoted in the story. Lyn Turnbull is (was?) a member of our inner city Guild group. Looks like she’s still fighting the good fight.
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Fujoshi!
Dude. I would totally go to the Japanese girly schoolboy cafe! (Has anyone else been surfing Google all day, trying to track down an English translation of the original manga? No? Just me then? Okay.)
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Hats
The Snook was all excited to jump on the hat bandwagon… until he saw this photo. Good grief.
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Half-Marathon
Entries for the Sydney Half-Marathon are now open… and I just signed up. I’m scared sh*tless about the time cutoff. I was only able to run once last week, which was disappointing since I’d managed to stick to three times a week since Christmas. I told myself that I’d be better off resting and fighting off this virus than weakening myself and making it worse. Anyway, I’m committed now so there’s no backing out. (Also, it’s now been five days since my last Diet Coke. The Snook joked on the weekend that my flu symptoms were actually DTs from the withdrawal.)
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Quiet
At 6:30 on Thursday night, while I was knitting away at the TC SnB, I suddenly felt dizzy. Like, my head started spinning. I soldiered on for the last half hour, but it didn’t go away. Maybe low blood sugar? I ate a few cookies from the office before heading home, but that didn’t help. I felt like I had vertigo. I went to bed early and slept about ten hours, but the feeling was still there the next morning. Friday afternoon I went to my doctor to get my monthly allergy shot, and he took one look at me and said, “You’re coming down with a virus.” Crap. I suppose it stands to reason; both Fiona and Bex have been sick recently, and I’ve hugged them both in the past week. “So what can I do to minimize the impact of this?” I asked. “Go to bed. Cancel everything this weekend and just rest.” YES, SIR! Consider it done…
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Lost Wallet
Awww, Eileen has posted a great story about a stranger returning her lost wallet. Very heart-warming!
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Margaret Cho
Last night I joined Bex, Fin, and two of their friends at the Sydney Theater to catch the world premiere of Margaret Cho’s new show, “Beautiful.” It was AWESOME. I can remember when my Mom and I first discovered her in the early 90’s. We liked her because she was Korean, and because we’d never seen a smart, funny Korean on TV before. Her imitations of her mother had us in stitches. I knew that she’d gotten really popular in the last few years, but I had no idea that she’d become such an international gay icon. (She’s actually the grand marshal of this year’s parade.) Last night the packed audience consisted of 90% gay men, 9.9% lesbians… and me. The audience loved her. They couldn’t get enough. Most of the show was about sex, but she still threw in some hilarious Korean humour too. We didn’t stop laughing for more than an hour. She was fabulous, much tinier than I imagined, and she ended the show with a song (whose title I won’t repeat here, but which was stuck in my head for an hour). And then when we were standing around out front afterwards, Bex and I suddenly found ourselves talking to Mark Trevorrow (aka Bob Downe), an honest-to-goodness celebrity! He seemed really friendly.