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Wish for Something Better III

Belvedere Jehosophat - Monday, 1 January, 2007 - 21:40:58 - print it raw

Merlina, who murders, spoke to me and said, "Being silent is self-destructive."

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Heading a Wiggle, a wobble and the Walkleys wake

Ethan Switch - Friday, 1 December, 2006 - 23:20:08 - print it raw

Shake down above the ground, the week is weak of the heart as the lead takes a stand and falls back into the fray. Or at least what passes the muster under the colonel.

Leader of the children, dressed in a yellow skivvy since rebirth, Greg Page of The Wiggles. Page takes down a step from the act off on a chronic health problem in no way related to the chronic, problematic nonetheless for his health and well being. Standing room only, no moving or jumping about. And into the slip, the next new yellow is Sam Moran. Understudy no more, now the leader of the pack.

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out of step

Belvedere Jehosophat - Saturday, 4 November, 2006 - 21:27:57 - print it raw

five to one, baby, one in five

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Eerie Science

Belvedere Jehosophat - Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - 21:24:35 - print it raw

Well, DNA is and DNA was and DNA could and did, and it was this what set DNA apart from its rivals. It was an exciting time for science, a scintillating time, a time that made fingers dazzle in the darkness of irrationality, all alive as they were with the promise of method and the death of uncertainty. Note that times were tough; oh, yes, how could you think otherwise?? They were lean times, they were hungry times, and as the patents piled the children did starve; the cold heart of economic rationalism won’t compensate for the (supposed) benefits (allegedly) conferred to future generations. But DNA did and now DNA is what DNA always threatened to be. It looks inside, my friends, it looks inside and shines a torch on anything that can possibly be described as being capable of being illuminated. And when the lights are out, friends, fingers dazzle. They dazzle.

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North Korean nuclear test tests the new and clear air out there

Ethan Switch - Monday, 9 October, 2006 - 23:15:58 - print it raw

Hands over the face, children, it's time for some old school freak mutant bombs to rev up again. Remember to tuck in those knees under your chin as you run under those desks and bundle up the loose strings. Strings will be the future of the past in a post-scramble civilization.

North Korea's confirmed, but unseen, though solidly felt, underground nuclear test sets off the edge on powers and nations around the globe. So close neighbours and ally China are really on the soup cup.

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Folding one hand as the jester bites off the other

Ethan Switch - Friday, 15 September, 2006 - 23:56:50 - print it raw

Switch a kick up on the closure front as one company swipes the loss right from under another's bellows. Two hands, three fingers, and the entire slab of carrot cake done and down before the fat lady from human resources reaches the elevators.

Speculation across the weeks at the Mitsubishi plant in Adelaide rifles the stress balls and tests the resolve of the working force. Those in the production line most likely to lose out and on their jobs and livelihoods. Constant and reckless like the horse found rummaging through the back issues of a seedy adult book store.

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