Funny Yet Sad

Antipodean Slang

Are you tired of seeing me type ‘Antipodean’ yet?  Well too fucking bad.
Here’s the layout:
Antipodean slang word:
Approximate English meaning:
Why it makes me Sad:
Let’s go!


Butchered at the tailor

Sorry, Daniel, for making this public before you got to privately grieve, but I just had to post this.
Last week, Daniel and I had a townie afternoon that started with Rojoz and ended with wanting to die after shopping for a bit too long at Valley Fair and Santana Row. In between, we went [...]


Sad.Sigh Down Under - Part 4

11.18.08 - Taronga Zoo, Oxford Street/Darlinghurst
Rachel, Jamie’s friend from The JC was supposed to leave to head back to the States this afternoon.  However, before she was to do that, we decided to go to the Taronga Zoo, on Sydney’s North Shore.  Jamie, who’s been to 167 zoos whilst she’s been here, (including world-famous Australia [...]


Sad.Sigh Down Under - Parts 1, 2 and 3

Yay!  Blogging from afar!  (G - we need a Sad.Sigh Abroad category.)
11.15.08 - NYC, Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
But first, a small tangent.  So, prior to my departure from JFK to SYD, I’d received a text message from my Magic Phone Panel telling me that they were disbanding the panel immediately, and that my phone [...]


The Wisdom of Janitors.

Proof that I don’t know anything about anything?
Our custodian at work, Tyrone, a 35-year old Jamaican man, and I had the following conversation the other day about the tanking economy*:
DT: Hey Tyrone, how’s it going?
Tyrone: Ayrie, not too good, not too good.
DT:  Sorry to hear that.
Tyrone: You know, I checked me Money Market deother day.  [...]