stealing Andrew’s ideas

Yes, I freely admit, the idea for this post comes from Andrew’s blog. He wrote today about how much better it is to listen to music in the car alone than with other people.
You can turn it up way loud, sing to your heart’s content, sing a long to the GUITAR SOLO if you [...]

get outta my dreams

er yes, get into my car.
I can’t get that damnable song out of my head today. For some reason, whoever runs the loudspeaker at Ringwood East Station seems to be a great fan of Billy Ocean. Barely a day passes without one of the many gems from Mr Ocean’s ouvre being blasted into my unwilling [...]

vegie runs

“Vegie run” - the term is fairly new to me. I gather it refers to a sort of training run you might do where you just amble along at around snail-pace, making any nearby tortoises feel good about themselves and never lifting the heart rate above “induced-coma”. (I don’t have a Garmin, but I would [...]

best music of 2007

I promised a list of the best music of 2007, but I’ve hit a bit of a snag. It’s this: I didn’t actually like any music this year.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve listened to music more or less constantly, but almost all of it is old. I’m not much of a fan of anything new.
So [...]

eddie nowhere

Way back in October last year, I floated the idea of buying Channel 9, purely for the pleasure of “boning” Eddie McGuire.
Now my plan certainly had a great deal of support out there, but not in the way that counts - vis-a-vis money, dosh, moolah and lots of it.
Never mind: time, karma and the relentless [...]

last hard workout

Yesterday was the last opportunity for anything resembling a long run before the big one (Sun 27th). I was torn, as usual, between wanting something testing and not wanting to injure myself.
The compromise was a 27k-er done at a reasonably easy pace, but including a couple of nasty-ish hills. Also, it was done in the [...]

good omens

I’ve been thinking a bit more about good last-third-of-a-marathon music. Rather than surveying the entire history of pop music, or worse the entire history of recorded music, I’ve been focusing on something more manageable: my MP3 player.
I’ve been going through, separating the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, the running songs from [...]

spruikers are evil

I know, I know, I can hear you saying:
Yes, yes, we’ve all been on Swanston Street walk, we know they’re annoying. It’s old news…
The thing is, I’m not talking about ordinary spruikers, with the microphones and stuff. I’m talking about the sneaky ones you see these days around the traps. They’re the groups of attractive [...]