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So, it looks like we’ll be getting quite a bit o’ Fringe in this year. On Sunday at the Festival Club @ North Melbourne Town Hall we caught Ollie Olsen & friends Fading Fires doing a pretty impressive set accompanying some interesting surrealist movies including murderous women with keys that turned into knives, and mysterious flocks of bowler hats … and a half hour montage of gulf war oil fire footage, which was fascinating and terrifically saddening. The music was quite good, very experimental, evocative. Well worth heading down - and even better, it was free!

There is more neat Fringe stuff coming up - we’re checking out the Tenth Stage tomorrow night @ the Toff, and there’s a couple of things we kinda wanna maybe see, such as Danceathon 6000 on Friday night [free] and possibly more amusingly, we rather fancy the idea of Fringe-Lympics hosted by Dave Callan [also free] - if anyone is game to get a team together, perhaps? It could be amusing indeed. Or embarrassing. Or stupid. But I like Dave Callan, he’s funneh

Here’s the blurb:

Fringe-lympics - Hosted By Dave Callan

Art is a race. Let’s cheat.

Anyone game for this? It’s next Wednesday 8th October.

So, we have a new member of the family, as of Wednesday - it’s taken til today for me to have enough time to try and catch up on LJ [still failing miserably really, too much to do!]. She came to us rather convolutedly, as Jeremy had a very elaborate plan on our anniversary to take me out to a breeder to pick out a lovely Scottish Fold, to my utter surprise, a little consternation [we have tiny apartment!] but of course, delight. But our anniversary was some months ago, I hear you cry! Well, yes - and this is not actually the kitteh I had picked out. Unfortunately, the chosen kitteh from that trip passed away after her vet visit to be fixed and readied for new owners, and it took some time for the breeders to be able to offer us another kitteh - this being our new darling, a nine month old black & white Scottish Fold. SQUEE! Been a bit difficult to get good photos and video of her, but I’ve tried

She’s been the most utterly charming and adorable cat I think I have known, and travelled home with us on the train with only a handful of petulant meows - a polar opposite to Snapey who would yowl and complain the entire trip in any car, as if we were stabbing him with needles or cutting off his paws - as I was bracing for that kind of noise, I was so relieved when she was super-quiet! She’s absolutely *tiny* - a perfect size for The Aerie, for those of you who’ve been here know just how small our apartment is! She’s precocious and loves to play and purr and snuggle, but also won’t bother you too much if you’re busy. She has the typical Scottish Fold folded ears that are *omgsquee* cute, and the most amazing big golden eyes. Really, a totally awesome cat and fitting in with our daily lives very very well, and a most wonderful anniversary present. We must have a kitteh-warming party soon, for those of you who are local and would like to meet her, just register your interest :). She likes visits, Jeremy’s brother was over yesterday and she was quite sociable.

We haven’t been able to come up with a name for her yet though. Any suggestions?

REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

This was forwarded to me by a friend. It’s important to laugh, when the only other option is to cry.

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson

Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country
has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of
800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it
would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation
movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need
the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these
funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly
under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for
a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund
account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will
respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used
to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson

Here are some political commentary links.

Palin vs Clinton skit which is highly amusing, if you haven’t seen it yet, do!

Matt Damon has some good points about Palin, but I guess he’s mostly preaching to the converted…

but this veteran’s blog is probably one of the more interesting comments, and more useful to try and seed doubt amongst those who are less likely to be swayed.

My honest opinion? Palin was chosen for the abortion issue, and the Republicans are betting on there being a ton of rabid right-to-lifers planning on voting. They are, unfortunately, probably right, as we all know there are more religious nutters in the US than aaaanywhere else, they are loud and they are militant and they almost all think it’s a sin to kill your unborn childs. So yeah - even as the Democrats are having a field day taking the piss out of Palin [and it really is funny, how could it not be with such great material], my stomach sinks :(.

In completely non-political news, I state this is the best job ad EVAR, and ask my NZ pals if they’ve been to this place.

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.

Post these instructions with the picture.

This is me in the back room of Perth Wildilocks, you can see hangers and hair beside and behind me. I am updating software for the shop, and it is taking a long time - otherwise I doubt I would have had the time or inclination to partake in this meme

Flying back to Melbourne tomorrow, busy busy busy OMG busy! Scott & Keilo’s wedding was awesome, John’s bday was fun, Sin was BUSY last Sat and this week has been NON stop work. I am a machine.

Euchronia is a steampunk / neo-Victorian Year’s End Ball which will take place in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the last day of the calendar year of 2008. We thought it best to make this early announcement to assist our guests who may be travelling from foreign parts in planning their journeys. Tickets go on sale on 29th September, 2008.

Please see www.euchronia.com for full details. You may also add to your friends list to receive updates!

So, everyone excited about the Large Hadron Collider being turned on today? If you’re worried about OMGENDOFTHAWORLD [though maybe not enough to send death threats]:

“The collisions will not start until later this month, and it will be next year before the particle accelerator is running at full power. “

So we all have a while yet, even with the thing turned on.

*tick tock, tick tock*

As title says, look over here for all 58 of em, or a small selection of my faves below:

Cass’ Afterburn Report, 2008!

I’m writing this on my flight back to Melbourne from the US, as I do have a whole lot of time, and would like to write out as much as I can remember.

Firstly, people say your first Burn always rocks, and your second always sucks. I’d just like to say a big eff that: I had an awesome time, and I don’t regret going one bit. Sure, there were some ways I didn’t enjoy myself as much, but there were other ways I enjoyed myself much more.