Ancient apercus from October 2005

Halloween is the stuff of child's play and piñatas are seasonal

Ethan Switch - Monday, October 31, 2005 - 18:03:46

Carlo Conforti, a man in his late forties, was found beating a donkey to death in the early morning of Halloween. Balding, and with a birthmark covering his left ear, Conforti was discovered mid-swing by a small group of children during their morning callisthenics.

It's believed that Conforti, divorced and with no children or carer, took the equine beast from the stables of the Catholic school grounds during the commotion of a protest rally over the persistence of The Devil and the Black Feast of the Churches.

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Three strike outs and a hang man to complete the game

Ethan Switch - Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 23:30:10

Dashing lines across the pages, strikes flare up as the intent rages on through the week.

From the political angle, the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers face up front. Their conditions a concern with the sharing of nose hoses running rampant under watch. Conditions cruel no doubt, the prospect of gruel to rule their nightmarish screams. Is this what their religion has brought them?

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Contrition and the absence of absolute and clear reason

Ethan Switch - Sunday, October 23, 2005 - 19:56:57

Generating a sizeable quantity of an unknown substance beneath the parish he so steered, Pastor Usagi Jacobs found his position crumbling at his feet. Confidence on continued discretion and questions on the actual substance overlaying each sermon on the secret secretion driving hidden demons.

Reeking of an intense yellow and stinging of a greenish mole, the collection festered from below with an unrelenting strain of salt water. Combination of such covering the walls and pews in an undeniably slick film which led many parishioners of the church to faint during the hotter days of the month.

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Terror up the streets, run down the main and throw out a party

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 10:45:55

Looking down the lock down, the premiers of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania threw in their support for the Federal Government's counter-terrorism laws. Rumours of sudden misdirection through last minute changes and tweaks to the proposed bill opening many channels of questions on the strength, reach and rule of fine print and invisible ink.

Over in the public scales, competition for the public display of jump suits on rails heats up in the windy blows above the CBD. Countering the Sydney Harbour Bridge's ear-raging Bridge Climb, Sydney Tower unveiled their ear-popper, Skywalk.

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Princess Mary hits the hospital and finally ejects a baby

Ethan Switch - Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 23:23:20

Salivating at the swinging lips with postings of sonic zoom cameras on paparazzi fists, tabloid magazines are gearing up for the first elusive shot of another young baby boy. After a few false starts, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark finally gave birth to an heir.

Shooting out and scratching a perfect 10 on the Apgar score, the as yet unnamed babe was born in the early hours at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen (Copenhagen University Hospital). Along with the 10, the new Danish heir weighs in at 3.5 kilograms and stretches out to just over half a metre at 51 centimetres.

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Bali nine brawling head-to-head with Bali blast

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, October 11, 2005 - 18:32:32

Freshly ground from the rubble of recent past, and dodging the lines of Pakistan's recent attention grabbing blast, Indonesia's little Bali attempts to bring back the title of focus.

Running dual duties, the case of the Bali IX (or Bali 9 (or Bali Nine)) and the investigation into the smoldering Bali blasts (days away from making a complete circle over last year's explosions).

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Belvedere Jehosophat - Thursday, October 6, 2005 - 08:01:18

On June 30th, 2005, ten people escaped into the mountains looking for a better way to live. This is what they found:

The first to crack was a tall, thin Italian man with huge, sad looking eyes that resembled huge, sad looking jellyfish. This anemic man was practically useless to the whole expedition, and, realising this, went slowly insane.

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