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  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #13

    On our way home from Cronulla beach we ended up in the outside lane at a set of lights. Cars were parked in front of us just across the intersection. Wayne was driving one of his shitbox cars he picked up for a couple of hundred dollars. For the story let’s say it was a…

  • THAT SCENE IN ALIEN (1979): Movie Musings #7

    ***Spoiler Alert*** (Especially if that title means nothing to you) When we picked it up from the video store it was “that movie where the monster busts out of the man’s chest”. There was a strange kind of grapevine for movie recommendations back then. Beside the movies you already knew about and the ones you…

  • I’LL SKIP THE CURRENCY CREATION CONUNDRUM FOR NOW & GET STRAIGHT TO ITS’ EXCHANGE AND ACCUMULATION: Rise of the Tycoons #10

    The world I have envisaged at this point remains tribal and by extension familial. Besides inter-tribal marriage and mob mergers, by force or mutual agreement, even the largest villages had a generational lineage. After enough time these tribes would have something resembling a royal family. You know, the descendants of successful scoundrels. Okay, there probably…

  • MUSINGS ON THE JOB ABOUT THE JOB: This Place is Different

    In the late 1990s I worked for a magazine distribution company that will remain nameless. I was in my mid 20s and a weekend binge drinker like all my mates. I often credit this job for tipping me over the alcoholic edge. I’ll leave that downward spiral for another day. At this point it was…

  • CORPORATE CONFUSION: The Future Outlook Under the Titans

    ***Massive Cynicism Alert*** Things are looking pretty grim for anyone not willing or able to keep up with the accelerating changes, or for those that invest their precious time and energy on the wrong potential source of income. The profit hungry behemoths do not possess sympathy for those that do not generate wealth. Notice how…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #12

    I don’t know where the car came from, but it was copping a hammering in the park. My mates were taking turns thrashing it around the large reserve. I ended up in the passenger seat while Rob was taking his turn. He was spinning it so hard that grass was coming in through my window…

  • A REVOLUTION IN THE FILM INDUSTRY: Movie Musings #6

    Glory Days of Home Video #1 I grew up during the dawn of home video players and video rentals. (in my old man voice)” Young people today could never appreciate the massive advancement home video was at the time!” Before that the only way you could see a movie was at the cinema (or Drive-In)…

  • MUSINGS ON THE JOB ABOUT THE JOB

    Blue collar work isn’t very intellectually demanding, so there’s plenty of time to ponder. I’ve always been a nerd, but university was never on my radar. I didn’t enrol until I was in my late 30s – that’s another thread and one I will be eternally grateful for. Anyway, this sideroad concerns all the contemplation…

  • THE CLOSEST WE CAME TO NOT WRECKING THE JOINT: Rise of the Tycoons #9

    Before the rise of the first great empires there must have been an era of nothing larger than a great village. Some sliver of time before towns became a thing. Nothing but a spectrum going from hunter gatherers and/or nomadic tribes through fledgling farming communities and peaking with a scattering of big ass villages. I…

  • POTENTIAL DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY: True Stories #11

    This one is a double bunger. Legend has it that Bon Scott, the original front man for AC/DC, died by choking on his own vomit after a heavy drinking session. I cannot positively confirm if this is true, but I can assert that it nearly happened to me on two occasions. One was at the…