| Airing of Smoothie Grievance |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|04:30 pm] |
So I'm cruisin the menu of a non-franchise juice bar this morning, looking for some breakfast, when I spy "Pine Delight Smoothie! Pineapple with yoghurt and ginger". "Gee!" I think to myself, "Gee! I like smoothies, and I like pineapple, and I even like ginger! You don't usually see pineapple smoothies on the menu, and I like so much about it, I'd be a fool not to try it." Right? Right. I'd have to be an idiot not to give it a go. As the nice girl at the juice bar is making my smoothie, I think to myself that probably the reason pineapple smoothies are so rare is that it must be hard to stop the pineapple juice curdling the yoghurt. Still, these guys must have the secret down pat, cos it's up there on the sign, bold as brass bollocks. I was snapped out of my contemplative reverie by Juice Bar Girl asking if I'd like ice in my smoothie. "Uh, sure. Let's have some ice in it."
Smoothie girl finishes mixing drink, plonks drink down on counter and says "I don't have any ice, sorry." I do a double take, decide that enjoying the surreality of the ice paradox is the best reaction I could choose, smile and pay.
Tasting the smoothie, I find it has curdled. It's sour and lumpy, and I drink a fair bit of it before chucking it out.
Happy Festivus!* Don't forget to air your grievances and wrestle the head of your household to submission for luck.
*Yeah, I'm on the Festivus bandwagon until a better secular, less-commercialised summer solstice holiday comes along. |
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| "Here's my Vespa in front of an interdimensional portal!" |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|02:07 am] |
Okay, so I didn't manage to get a photo essay of the rented Vespa - I realised pretty quickly that a series of near-identical shots titled things like, "Here's my Vespa in front of a cafe!", "Here's my Vespa in front of a wall!", "Here's my Vespa in front of a totally different wall!" would be kind of tedious. Plus you look like a total wanker standing there taking photos of your own scooter when you've just stopped for coffee. But I did get one shot, so here's what I rode all weekend:
It was pretty radcore fun - ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lithium_michael was basically exactly right when he described it as feeling like "flying, only on the ground, where it's a lot more dangerous." The speeds you do inside a car feel so so much faster when you do them outside of a car, so it's actually reasonably scary at first. That said, it feels amazing and it was so much fun. It was kind of sad to have to give it back, but it's okay because obviously I need to buy a yellow one instead.
Randomly, three things I saw this week:
1. All this does is make me even more curious about what's inside.
2. Filed under "My friends are both insane and awesome and they make 30 second long moving pictures which you should watch": Remember to wish everyone a happy International Free Barrel Day this December 25th!
3. The 1996 black comedy/hilariously bad horror film, Jack Frost, a movie about a deranged serial killer who dies, but comes back as an evil snowman with an assortment of terrible one-liners. "The film gained fame as an Internet meme thanks to its low budget special effects, comical death sequences, poor acting, and the fact that it was released within two years of an unrelated family film of the same name also featuring the concept of a living snowman." AMAZING. SO AMAZING. |
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| Photo of the day - 21 Dec 2009 - New Pelion Hut, Overland Track, Tasmania |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|08:03 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hike, hut, lake, landscape, mountain, new, oakleigh, overland, pelion, photography, potd, track | ] |
 
New Pelion Hut, Overland Track, Tasmania
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| Photo of the day - 20 Dec 2009 - Mt Oakleigh Panorama, Overland Track, Tasmania |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|07:39 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hike, hut, lake, landscape, mountain, new, oakleigh, overland, panorama, pelion, photography, potd, track | ] |
Mt Oakleigh Panorama, Overland Track, Tasmania
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| Photo of the day - 18 Dec 2009 - Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|07:41 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hike, hut, lake, landscape, mountain, new, oakleigh, overland, pelion, photography, potd, track | ] |
Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania
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| Photo of the day - 17 Dec 2009 - Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|07:45 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hike, hut, lake, landscape, mountain, new, oakleigh, overland, pelion, photography, potd, track | ] |
Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania
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| Artdump! |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|09:38 pm] |
Okay, I've got to post all this art before it gets so old that I hate it all. I hate how that happens, actually... what's everyone else's art half-life? I can't get tachi to draw me a tattoo for that very reason - he's worried he or I would be unhappy with the art later on, and then he'd be to blame.
Anyway, I've been working on a bandom-themed art prompt post with speep and saint_sorrows. Actually speep has done an absolute tonne of art, and it's all awesome, you can see the whole prompt post here. We're still eagerly awaiting saint sorrows' stuff, which I know will be totally well spiffy.
But here's what I did...under a cut so I don't distort the hell out of everybody's friends' page.
( THERE'S ART UNDER HERE )
Apart from that, I've rented a Vespa for the weekend, so I can a) practice and not lose my skills while I wait for my friend with a Vespa-importing father to hook me up, b) test out if I absolutely really want a Vespa, and c) look like an inner west douche. WIN FOR ALL! I should take some kind of suitably arty photo essay for fun, so I'll keep you all posted.
Also, holidays in two days, I'm beyond excited.
Lastly, I've been playing Phoenix Wright again, and I forgot how much I absolutely adore that game and series. (っ´ω｀)っ |
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| Photo of the day - 15 Dec 2009 - New Pelion Hut and Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|07:41 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hike, hut, lake, landscape, mountain, new, oakleigh, overland, pelion, photography, potd, track | ] |
New Pelion Hut and Mt Oakleigh, Overland Track, Tasmania
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