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I spent yesterday afternoon in the autumnal light of the setting sun in the beer garden of my local pub with good friends talking shit and laughing so hard my guts hurt. Life is sweet.

Just days after writing my previous blog, I read this in the paper:-

Why have we developed sophisticated expressive faces in the first place?

It was a question that transfixed Charles Darwin, who became so obsessed with the human face he wrote a book about it in 1872 called The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin believed that our ability to express...
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Today was one of those beautiful, autumnal days in Melbourne where there is not a cloud in the sky. Its not too hot in the sun and not too cool in the shade and the angle of the light catches everything. I get a certain well-being on days like this, the kind that celebrates the moment and eases the burden of everyday existence. I found...
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Zombie Haiku

Brain brains brains brains brains
Brain brains brains brains brains brains brain
Artificial hip

I met a a girl traveling through Melbourne and she wrote about me in her blog.

Mark is, apparently, Fitzroyalty, as he put it. He knows everyone. He knows everywhere that's worth going. So we chatted. And I read him things from my Moleskine. And he thanked me for it. We got more drinks. We had an espresso vodka drink that was even more orgasmic...
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I'd forgotten about this...

I felt the full moon calling me tonight. Apparently, it's not full until tomorrow, but it called me regardless. Initially, the call was full of angst, but that was when I was fighting it. Once I yielded, the pleasure of this silver light piercing the darkness consumed me and filled me with the joy of fleeting moments, constantly changing with the angle and clouds. I...
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Sea Angel

An angel dives into the sea with a great splash. He sinks to the bottom where he lands on his feet.
With his cheeks full of breath and eyes wide but still blurred, he waits a moment before he determines to fly. He launches himself slowly as it takes great effort to beat his soaked wings thought the heaviness of the briny depths....
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Day 17, so very tired. I just bought a MacBook and am about 2/3 the way through downloading my CD collection. In the background I'm playing Disintegration by The Cure, the TV has the sound down and on the screen are the wildly vivid images of The Shining. I'm drinking red wine and smoking rolled cigarettes. Occasionally, I pause to take photographs of myself for...
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Cowboy Advice #1 - Don't squat wearing spurs