February 13th
1) I'm well away from the bush fires, but since everyone seems to have heard about it on the other side of the world, you can imagine what it's been like here. Filled out some forms to go volunteer and am waiting to hear back from the various organizations. It's frustrating to read the news, when I'm here not doing much of anything and could so easily be helping.
Tristan just read us the weather forecast: 23 degrees and smoky. Smoky is not an appealing meteorological adjective.
2) Other than the smokiness of today, it's thankfully been rather cool (low 20s; cool by Australian summer standards), but windy until today. The wind is likely worse right now than the desperate lack of rain.
3) Café culture is huge here. There are scads on every street. But the true indicator is McDonald's: a few years back, McDonald's decided to turn things around in Australia, boost their flagging sales by creating a youthful, hip image. Thus, McCafé. A little "café" attached to nearly every McDonald's. I'm not even kidding. I've yet to actually go in (it's just so... weird), but I will let you know if I do.
4) Burger King is branded as Hungry Jack's. Even if the food is exactly the same, I bet it tastes 35 times better at a place called Hungry Jack's. I am such a slave to advertising.
Speaking of which, I chose my bank based solely on commercials viewed on youtube. Commonwealth's were very funny, but NAB had this one for a footy [Aussie Rules Football] outreach program that made me giggle a lot and won out in the end.
5) The title of this post is the name of an exhibit I saw the other day of photography by Rennie Ellis. He started out as a photojournalist but began to focus on day-to-day life and culture in Australia, taking tens of thousands of photos between the 60s and 80s.
There was a section on graffiti, one of which was simply of No Standing, Only Dancing scrawled on a brick wall. Wouldn't you love to see that somewhere?
I'm going to try to get back there before the exhibit closes on the 22nd.
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I am going to be realistic and seem Clairvoyant at the same time. The person who made that graffiti was definitely skinny. I have done stand-up comedy gigs of 6 minutes and wanted to sit down...the differences that make this world so great!
Smokey is a new Meteorological adjective for me...but then again...I have used "Finger Puppets" as a verb and adverb, not just a noun!
Miss you and luv ya lots!
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