Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.
The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.
I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.
Conundrum: a confusing and difficult problem
Today is March 210th, 2020.
Bellicose: demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight
We live in the age of general. Where the average is enough.
Where we make great arguments over Brand A versus Brand B, dismissing the million shades of gray between them.
Where we call people and politicians left and right, like there really are only two types of people.
Where conversation about nuanced ideas, be it faith, politics, authors, ideas, medicine, or family, are dismissed if they aren’t your own beliefs.
I long for the age of nuance.
For a time where we could just chat.
In the literature underpinning the Christian tradition, the main character of the stories, asks 307 questions. He is asked 183, and he directly answers three.
I wonder what that means?
Hi, I’m Josh.
I’m a marriage celebrant.
I believe that the best part of your wedding should be your ceremony, and I work my ass off to make one that fits like a glove.
I think that if you had no arbour, cake, flowers, cars, photos, seats, decorations, suits, or white wedding uniforms/dresses, that it’s still an epic day because you are loved. Everything else is just sweet sweet sugar on top.
I think personal vows are powerful, and personalised dressing robes are cool.
I fly a drone (DJI Mavic 2 Pro) and I like making photos of things that aren’t people. I like 90s pop and alt rock and 2000’s Foo Fighters.
I’ve got a 23 month old daughter named Luna, another little girl here in February, and every day of mine is brighter because of Britt, my wife. She’s the brain behind the The Elopement Collective!
We live at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast, and if there’s not a pandemic I normally travel the globe creating epic marriage ceremonies.
I’d love to make yours!
#celebrant #celebrantinstitute
iPadOS 14 would be one of the more disappointing released of iPadOS/iOS for iPad.
No App Library, and no widgets outside of the widget area is an honest disappointment everytime I pick up my iPad now.
I'd bet/hope that the early 2021 release changes that.
New tree mulch from this upstart author/uncle, @markrwriter
Did you know there’s an Australian journalist on the 16th day of his US extradition court case in England at the moment?
You probably wouldn’t because it’s not being reported on, and it’s being algorithmicly pushed down online.
What a time to be alive.
Relax, just do it
Anyone else have an issue with the idea that we as a people struggle to do the right thing in a pandemic unless our civil liberties are severely restricted by legislators?
The idea that collectively we struggle to make good decisions for the community we live in without a bunch of rules written down on stone tablets, is getting a bit old.
But maybe that’s the only way we can succeed?
Did you know the Apple Watch comes preloaded with the last time and date that a free U2 album would’ve been cool instead of a meme.
It’s Intermational Talk Like A Pirate Day so make sure when you visit a store, restaurant, cafe, or airport today you talk like a pirate and casually drop that you’ve been sailing through Victorian waters this last fortnight.
My hobby is to comment "booo" on anti-progress boomers in local Facebook groups.
I’m clearly going to Bunnings too much if I’m getting photos of Luna on the same date sitting in a Bunnings trolley.
“Transport bosses in Greater Manchester confirmed a snake was not a valid face covering.”
She thinks we’re playing, I think we’re training, we’re a great team.
I'm worried that the world doesn't know how much I really don't want my little black pocket computer to randomly start vibrating and making sounds because someone's decided how I should spend the next five minutes of my life.
Thought you might need to read this as well if you're making a speech at a wedding
The story of how Air New Zealand tried to sell Ansett to Singapore Airlines or Qantas for just $1.
🐮🐮🐮 #shotoniphone
For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites.
From: When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
In 20-40 years our kids and grandkids will host COVID-19 lockdown themed weddings and parties and they’ll think it’s so cool.
Anyone else getting fat-wrist-shamed by Apple?
Day one of being a bike person. Cycling sucks.
🐄📷
Every year there was a less than 1 per cent chance of experiencing a similar event. "However things can change, so we need to be vigilant," he said.
From a story in the Melbourne Age newspaper, five years ago
The September of the penguins
The moment Luna knew she wanted to be a Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtle
Keith: serious Murwillumbah business
Luna: “this TV is way better than Mum and Dad’s”
That's the way it's gonna be, little darlin'
Your phone is your castle
Self portrait at Keith’s
Now showing, at the Murwillumbah Cinema.
Culture behind bars
Orange Floyd’s wall
Calile-lyf
Here it is
The berds are growing in numba
It’s actually crazy that public policy for resuming work and life in Australia is hinging on an unknown, possibly non-existent, possibly not effective, not tested, Covid vaccine.
It’s like me saying I’ll stop punching you once an alien spaceship arrives.
You’re going to have some bruises and you’ll probably never see an alien.
Outbak Straya
Burd
I love Luna loves to read
Burd
🥃🏡🏔🌅📷
Boat & chopper looking for a Great White Shark that killed a surfer yesterday.
Reminds me of the ep of Chappelle’s Show where the Police call it an open & shut case of break & enter because they found a black man in a house where he’d put up pictures of his family everywhere.
What? I’m just standing here watching my kid sleep and posting photos of it on the internet,
”Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savour the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.”
Semi-intimate is the relationship status everyone wants to be reported as when your semi-boyfriend is caught out after curfew.
