breakfast euphemisms

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boxing day paints itself in sunlit boxes
with tiny decorated trees leaning towards windows,
tinsel curving lazily around the roofs
like forgotten streets on mountain peaks
and a public park, wherein grown men speak
in heated tones that grow from grass and stumps
to bottles and a cricket bat death wish.

This is another Australian summer
spent with children’s faces shielded
a day spent in another Cronulla,
waiting until evening to ask
of the lines between the tabloids
of the six thirty news hour

what kind of anonymous pride is this?

The Jewish Defence League has come out against actor Will Smith for saying “”Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today,’ ” Mr. Smith said. “I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’” After which, The JDL condemned the remarks as “ignorant, detestable and offensive” and urged theatres to pull Mr. Smith’s new movie, I Am Legend. The article cited above says that “he was quoted in the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record as opining that the Nazi dictator wasn’t all bad” which is entirely untrue. The subjectivity of the statement and the subjectivity of historical knowledge of the Holocaust prevents such a statement.

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Had a photo shoot with Tash on monday for the first time. It turned out really well. I’m hoping to do an exhibition sometime in 2008 so I’m a bit wary of what I put online. at this stage, I might even put some online and then remove them if I decide to exhibit.

anyway, here are a few. Click to see their flickr pages.

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