If there was a 24/7 streaming channel of just Rhys Darby talking about things in his funny manner, you could just pump that directly into my brain.
Finally made it to Buzzfeed
Every cricket season I think about the couple I met with who didn’t book me because I didn’t know who the groom was.
I asked what he “did”, he said “play cricket”, to which I replied, no I mean like a career or a job.
He replied “I play cricket.”
Still don’t know who he was.
Also currently reading: On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis 📚
Currently reading: Things Hidden by Richard Rohr 📚
Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive:
The study provides “pretty convincing evidence that HEX can modulate aggression in humans in a sex-specific way,” says Dayu Lin
Yossi Ghinsberg is speaking to my Harcourts team today, this early statement about him reading books during school classes ignoring the teacher captured me all afternoon:
“No matter what you do, make a story out of it”
Then this one on dreaming:
“Nothing exists if you don’t imagine it first”
Readers and viewers aren’t dumb, via The Why Axis email.
I’ll probably do your wedding for free if you walk down the aisle to Goldfinger’s cover of 99 Red Balloons.
Thinking about Citipointe Christian College in Brisbane this afternoon …
“Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them. Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with each other. Don’t be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people.
And don’t think you know it all!”
An excerpt from Romans , chapter 12:14-16 from the New Living Translation.
Has Spotify had a deep clean yet? I’m staying out until everything on Spotify is 100% sanitised.
“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
– Ram Dass
The year is 2034 and your 12 y/o is getting ready for school. She starts the day with classes on empathy and then human connection. After lunch she has class on using social media to diagnose mental health concerns, and finishes with a class on post-algorithmic living.
Any other old school nerds ever just feel like re-visiting astalavista dot box dot sk?
Are you even from Brisbane if you don’t come to the Gold Coast on a long weekend and arrogantly proclaim to your partner that (insert beach suburb name) has really come into it’s own.
Notice how we keep on hearing from people who claim to be silenced?
Jen Ortiz, The Cut on weed’s last taboo, pregnancy:
Those bong rips did the trick: “I fucking thrived after I felt better. I had the best pregnancy — like, glowing.”
Whites Beach, New South Wales
