The Mongfuxor Chronicles

if i go out for the night i tend to spend inordinate amounts of money and i'm sure some of it is on rounds for people that never pay me back and don't do the 'offer cash up front' approach.

Same here. Like you, I buy rounds [when capable] to be kind and do my bit, not to get drinks back. Anyway I can't drink beer anymore so it's a bit of a moot point really.

Trayce: You're nothing like amst ffs, don't worry :)

As for Mr Gaiman/the Continuum thing, etc - my friend Cam was running a forum at'table at Continuum with Gaiman and PZB (? I think) called Gods and Monsters. Cam really be doin' well in this genre it seems. I think his second novel is out soon, and its a kids one with a scifi bent! Talented sod.

hey kit where i am a-teaching is opposite za ay bee cee.

The tragic love interest is a Typhoid Mary kind of figure.

Subplot is -> Supernatural mob war taking place in Melbourne, all the ghosts and goblins of the ethnicities that make up Melbourne are at each other's throats, couple of kids training to be rabbis are selling Golems as muscle/bodyguards to various figures.

- cnr Inkerman St and Wilgah St, there's a synagogue-thing with security guards always out the front

- Hotham St, between Alma Rd and Inkerman St, Yeshivah College with more security guards standing out the front

- there's a mikveh in [I think] Alexandra St between Inkerman and Carlisle Sts

If you want culture/sounds, Saturday's good because it's no-driving day and they all walk everywhere. Traipsing around Nth Caulfield could be useful too, loads of orthodox jews around there. hth

- Balaclava (aforementioned Golems)
- Chinatown (The servants of the Jade Emperor NEVER SLEEP).
- Alleyways of Richmond (Beloved by the wee folk, nasty little bastards, which came over with the poor micks in the late 19th C)
- CBD (Corporate Suit Vampire Types, are dispensed with very early in the novel)

In other news, Mikey you may want to exercise caution blithely photographing things like synagogues, schools and hasid men - for what I'd assume were obvious reasons...

PLEASE NEED NEW JOB WILL WRITE WORDS FOR SCRAPS.

You are number six.

seeing Serenity tonight.

You don't mind your cultural inputs being constrained to Singaporean levels of harmlessness by the father-knows-best state, and missing out on art and culture that people abroad get to see because some pentecostals don't like the sound of it?

I'm afraid I can't agree with you there. I find the idea of my horizons being forcibly narrowed to suit the whim of some small-minded bigot, of the stupid dictating what everyone else can see or say, thoroughly repugnant. And all the sunshine, good coffee, funky local shops and miscellaneous comfort Melbourne has to offer don't make up for it.

What say you all of this attitude? Maybe its just me but I wanna scream GET ONE PERSPECTIVE at him. The guy's been in london barely a year and he bitches non stop about how crap back home is and how he might never come back because oooh, they banned one film or ohhh, there are people with some kind of RELIGION who happen to be in politics.

Whats that old saying? "God help us if there's a war". F'kin ell.

Trayce, I plan to flee the country one day, maybe permanently, but I know a whole lot of countries suck many, many times harder and I will never forget I had it really good here as a young man.

God, there's so much I wanna say - reckon he reads this?

N'GLAAAYVEN!

I think it's more exciting and subversive, having BANNED FILMS nowadays. I know I have a copy of... was it "ken park", that last big hoo-hah? I got a DVD rip of that on principle... AND never watched it!

Trayce, we're talking about our mutual friend's appearance.

Hahah, we can discuss it at the FAP.

i read this out of context and it put odd thoughts in my head

Yeah are we still on for tomorree nite? I finish work about 4, 4.30 so I could be at Pause by 5 I reckons, if someone wanted to kick off early. Maybe I should start a FAP thread...

THANK YOU for spelling this word. I am in heaven, and henceforth will use the fuck out of it.