Lazy Luddite Log

Last weekend I had a 'staycation' which was arguably my first holiday befitting that ugly portmanteau word.

This post is a sequel of sorts to a far older one.

I recently experimented with making some dishes inspired by the Greek food to be had in Oakleigh.

In my recent post on pluralism I hinted at a working array of as many as seven distinct political parties of medium size all having parliamentary representation.

Today I will once more describe a toy collection that is more well-rounded than it is large.

On the corner of Punt Road and Stewart Street in Richmond is an unremarkable two storey brick structure housing a few wholesale shops or offices.

Melbourne has a new set of five underground train stations known together as the Metro Tunnel.

I was intending to post this last month but better late than never.

I met with a friend last week so that we could drive to a synagogue and offer our condolences for the recent mass murder of Jews at Bondi Beach.

This blog has turned twenty.

The five years since my last autoblography instalment seem to have gone by fast and yet what happened during that time?

I'm house-sitting right now and had imagined it allowing me to work on a rather complex short story concept I have been mulling over for months.

A few years ago I wandered impulsively into the National Communications Museum housed in an old telephone exchange building in Hawthorn.

I have written many paragraphs concerning the meta-ideology of populism so it is only right that I do the same for pluralism.

In a local fantasy game I made passing reference to a three course feed served to a large group of adventurers that suddenly burst in on the small inn of a tiny village.

Was there ever anything you had to do that you turned into something you wanted to do anyway?

I feel like streaming is a new part of my life but, if I cast my mind back, I have been using the Internet to access television programs for well over a decade.

In a conversation sometime during the pandemic, friends were wondering how long it would take till things got back to normal.

I'm here to enthuse about a policy I have benefitted from recently.

I have never run a live-action role-play game.

I stood entranced by the automated puppet show in a coin operated display cabinet.

Here is some advice for a major political party that has lost government and been relegated to an opposition role.

Traveling is a brutality.

In a few weeks I will be visiting Europe.

I have written much on the topic of Dungeons & Dragons as a role-play game but here I will turn to some toys of the same name.