Graham works as a photographer taking shots of turkeys for the supermarket catalogues. I have been encouraging him to chuck a sickie for three years. We have opposing schedules. He works weekdays. I work weekends. When there is a miracle (ie. Melbourne Cup) and we somehow go surfing on the drive back into the bullshit, on the Westgate, Graham, drinking sarsaparilla, will inevitably say, ‘ I should leave work early one Friday. Be good to score some 5pm post work glass.’
The shark attacks are getting to Graham. He reckons he will never surf WA again. ‘I’m gonna invent a cage that people can go swimming in’ ‘That’s the stupidest idea I have ever heard’ ‘You won’t be saying that when you get taken.’ That was last week. It must be playing on his mind because last night as I was giving him a shiatsu he … Continue reading The Collective Unconscious
couldn’t give a flying fuck about your compressed lumbar nerve because I have just decompressed my city brain with a good old fashioned counter cultural dip in the soup Continue reading The Last Time I Had Sunday Off Kurt Cobain Was Alive
The trouble with surfing in Victoria is you’re pretty much surfing in Antarctica. Last week post surf blue feet Graham offered me $100 for my ugg boots. They cost $8 at Big W and I didn’t even buy them, I stole them from my sister who had worn them as a costume for a bogan party. I didn’t sell them to Graham. I don’t regret … Continue reading Khe Sanh
Graham’s car needs a clean. There’s pad thai from surfing last week. A pile of mail addressed to somebody called Gunasekara Gunasekara. Psuedoephedrine hydrochloride. Empty tube of Billabong suncream with Mick Fanning on the front. Sarsaparilla bottle. Coffee cups. Directions scrawled. A Mint Pattie wrapper. ‘Yep I’ve been known to eat the occassional Mint Pattie and I’m very partial to the Golden Rough.’ Three packets … Continue reading It Is Pronounced Golden Roe
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