Guy on the flight on Wednesday wore his AirPods like this. Is this a thing? 📷

Just one guest at today’s wedding 🍻 #victoriabitter

📷 Sleeping giant

It’s been 183 days since the first postponement email. The longest 183 days of my life. 154 displaced weddings and elopements. Some couples are onto their third, fourth, and fifth wedding or elopement date or location. 46 cancelled flights to 15 different countries. $67,200 in cancelled invoices for future elopements or weddings. Thousands more lost to non-refundable accomodation, ferries, etc and about $20,000 tied up in travel vouchers. If anyone wants to fly Brussels Airlines before December 31 I’ve got some vouchers. Who knows the actual real cost to our business (me + The Elopement Collective). 3 court appearances coming up because we couldn’t refund and the couple didn’t want to reschedule.

1 virus.

I’m ready for all of this to be over now. How has Covid-19 affected you?

Five Darwin observations:

1. Where the goal for people in many cultures is to become a doctor or a lawyer, in Darwin it’s to become an air-conditioning salesperson or refrigeration mechanic.

2. The true status symbol of greatness in Darwin is to drive a dust-stained Toyota 4WD. Everyone else is a lesser than.

3. There are an inordinate number of retired airstrips in the region, which would be really helpful if you had lots of planes you needed to land at once.

4. The flies here are much more motivated than the common fly in the rest of Australia. The territory flies have a deep-rooted belief that your skin is merely masking the best thing a fly could ever want, like searching for the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, flies are intent for getting literally under your skin.

5. There is a coffee conspiracy in Darwin. My current understanding is that a mean person banned good coffee beans from ever coming to Darwin and if you are visiting there is a thriving black market for smuggled quality coffee beans. This is a guaranteed method of instant wealth.

📷 Burd

Everyone talks about a Darwin sunset. Charlestown delivered.

📷 I appreciate clear and concise signage as much as the next guy, but ...

I just read the line in a headline “Oprah’s favourite life coach” and all I want to know is how to remove the taste of vomit from your mouth if you’re not carrying mints.

📷 Florence Falls, NT

Hey can someone just quickly explain literally everything to me. I think I missed something.

”The (US) debt isn’t going to be repaid; it’s going to be refunded.” - Warren Buffett

📷 In the Northern Territory of Australia termites have been exiled from the urban areas and forced to make their own homes in the bush.

Abandoned by humans and the government the termite people gather dust from their surrounds and build cathedrals, sacred mounds that these vermin call home.

I thought I'd take the time to tell you an old story from the first time I ever thought about a wedding, it was actually 25 years ago this month.

So on this one faithful August night in 1995, I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged onto the verandah out of nowhere, tripped and fell over, breaking a glass outdoor table with his face.

Totally ruined the mood.

Now, I didn't know Joseph that well, I can't even remember where he was from, but I'm sure you could imagine I put my plans on hold to help get him to the hospital.

Joseph had gotten big glass shard in his eye leaving him completely blind in that eye. He was walking around with one of those cotton pads on his eye for a couple of months. Then suddenly, he disappeared, along with my girlfriend!

Apparently they'd bonded during the time after his injuries, and they eloped together, leaving me behind without as much as a note. I tried to track them down, but never could.

As happy as I am today, if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago.

Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, cotton eye Joe?

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 31 📷 Love

Humble brag photo post about travelling somewhere

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted an Android device as much as this one

So I hire a car from Avis for the night because that’s the easiest and most simple way to get to Brisbane Airport early tomorrow morning, and only $10 more than an Uber and the Airtrain.

Now someone’s crashed into the hired car.

My life is so exciting.

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 30 📷 Discovery

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 29 📷 Flake

“People pay money to see others believe in themselves” — Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 28 📷 Emotion(s)

“Out there things can happen And frequently do To people as brainy And footsy as you.”

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 27 📷 Overcome - as the Australian burnt bush fights its way back to green after a bushfire

Hey guys I would like to invite you all to join my multi level marketing scheme for beer. If you can convince 10 of your friends to drink beer, and they can convince their 10 of friends to drink beer, then I think we’ll be rich.

If Google was really committed to not being evil, they would remove pre-roll ads on Rick Rolls

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Relentless

Fill ‘er up, mate

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 25 📷 Hope

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 24 📷 Frosty

This is so awkward, I misunderstood. I’ve been preying for you, not praying for you. I don’t know what I’m going to do with these dead animals.

Never forget the day ScoMo became PM

Anyone else find themselves trying to lead a really exiting life so when the COVID contact tracers release the list of places you’ve been, everyone would think you’re cool?

Just me?

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 23 📷 Graceful

The year is 2020.

Some have died from a pandemic, millions others are economically and mentally affected.

Meanwhile young and attractive humans are dancing for free to pop hit songs in 15 second segments on an advertising and government propaganda network.

Helping my friend Tatiana Neumuller with a new website tonight :)

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 22 📷 Home

The best part about Luna learning the word ‘no’ is that when she says ‘no’ loudly to my face in no way does that trigger any deep-rooted rejection trauma and I’m totally ok with it. Parenting is so easy.

A lady has just taken a photo of me and obviously thought I couldn’t hear her speaking. She thought it was beautiful and sad that I was the only person on the whole beach, sitting by myself, reading.

In case you see me go viral, I want to state that I’m quite happy.

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 21 📷 Crunch 🦈

One of the best things about colonialism and white people is that sometimes you can just have sharks swim next to you at breakfast without any fear of harm.

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 20 📷 Change (of scenery for a day)

Are islands called islands because they “is land”?

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 19 📷 Ribbon (of islands I just flew over)

Thinking about rejigging all my marketing to just pictures of me shirtless, grinning, holding up fish. It seems to work for guys on Tinder.

This wasn’t a collaboration with Bechtel with a contract and payment; it was Apple doing a favour under the table for the Department of Energy. But access for that favour went only so far.

-Tid Bits

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 18 📷 Grid

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 17 📷 Cuddly

August photo micro-blogging challenge day 16 📷 Stationary

Nick Cave on Cancel Culture, and mercy.

”Mercy is a value that should be at the heart of any functioning and tolerant society. Mercy ultimately acknowledges that we are all imperfect and in doing so allows us the oxygen to breathe — to feel protected within a society, through our mutual fallibility. Without mercy a society loses its soul, and devours itself."

“Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort” – Clive ‘Papa Roach’ Palmer, looking at Palmer Coolum Resort.