Month: September 2006
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Lipstick as Political StatementYesterday as I was eating my lunch I stumbled across this AskMetaFilter thread about finding the perfect lipstick. A whole bunch of people said that Clinique’s “Black Honey” is the Best. Lipstick. Ever. (Other websites concur.) Of course, yours truly doesn’t normally wear any makeup. When I left work for the day…
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Mobile Cinema Times – a handy little text-based website that lets you look up Australian movie times from your mobile phone. Much simpler than paying through the nose for premium sites…
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Got an hour to kill? Have a go at this Movie Soundtrack Quiz (Excel file) that the Snook sent me. It gives you a song from a movie and you have to name who sang it and what movie it’s from. (The instructions are slightly misleading; they make it sound like the song is performed…
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My secret Goth girlfriend Bex – Shh! Don’t tell her real girlfriend! Or my husband, for that matter… – has helped organise an outdoor stitch and bitch picnic tomorrow as part of Newtown’s Under the Blue Moon Festival. The Sydney Goth SnB Group will be at Sydney Water Land, north end of Station St (off…
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Apparently it’s National Thylacine Day. The last captive Tasmanian Tiger died on this day seventy years ago. I did not know that. The photographs on that page are fascinating. Thylacines can open their mouths really wide! They don’t look like that on the Cascade bottle.
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Australians all let us rejoice!The letter has arrived, and yours truly is going to become a genuine citizen of this fine nation three weeks from tomorrow! If any of you feel like attending – which will probably entail chucking a sickie, as they’ve scheduled me for a Friday afternoon – the ceremony is on September…
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Albert just handed me a job application that was posted in… from BEIRUT. I’m not joking. It’s got about five Lebanese stamps on it with matching postmarks and an “International Post” sticker. It’s a normal enough application, except that she’s not in Australia and admits she doesn’t have citizenship, residency, or a visa. How weird…
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I left work early today feeling pretty crappy… but the Snook knew how to cheer me up. He brought me a Puffy Puff Puff Cookie Puff! (Or whatever they’re called.) I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. Cold, crumbly… and nowhere near as orgasmic as Beard Papa’s sounds. Still, it was a sweet…
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Pilates of the Caribbean. *snort* I really shouldn’t be laughing when my stomach hurts like this… (Link courtesy of John.)
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Kitchen Myths. Very interesting. There are a few things I didn’t know in there. (Link courtesy of not martha.)