Get the truth out

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq 18 months ago. And 'regime change' is against international law. Check out what's truly going on at Truthout.org
. 

Route 32

slightly less than half the kicks? 900kms from home.
(~ photo by Susi)
. 

The Bourne Supremacy

The Anti-James-Bond. It's so enjoyable to find a cold-blooded, remorseless, amoral killer you can root for. Matt Damon and the crew from the first one were very good again. Joan Allen was brilliant. Like lots of others I'm kind of over the wobbly camera stuff of pseudo-documentary style. Good use of music, though. Excellent car chase in Moscow (shows Matrix 2 how to do it, without building your own motorway). Pure hokum but very superior hokum. Worth the ticket price and enough loose ends for a third outing some time.
. 

Weekend shower

Photo by Scott Turner in the Sydney Morning Herald

bookies' favourites

automaton hares
fixed forever
to the inside rail
now electrified

dashing neck to neck
over four-forty
or five-twenty
to elude the hounds

bolting from traps
timed exactly
for a pointless pursuit
of the unattainable

and mug punters
down on the night
but running again
at the bookie’s call


(A small group of us went to the dog-racing at Wentworth Park earlier tonight. There was me, Halimah Simpson, Sharon Smith, Holly Stewart and Ed Sutton. We took $50 to bet with, taken from the office 'corporate bet' fund … a collection of coins we've thrown in a jar. We left with $97. I came home then wrote bookies' favourites to remember our triumph by. I don't think we'll be going back, somehow. It's a bit of a sad place, past its sell-by date, and very sparsely populated by anxious, usually disappointed men who drink too much and throw too much away.)
. 

Learning by numbers (part 1): Blowin' in the wind

6 6 6 -6 6 -5 6 5 -4 4
5 6 6 -6 6 -5 6
5 -5 6 6 6 -6
6 -5 6 5 -4 4
5 6 5 -5 -5 5 -4
5 -5 6 6 6 -6
6 -5 6 6 5 -4 4
5 6 6 -6 6 -5 6
5 -5 -5 5 -4
-4 5 5 5 -4 4
5 -5 -5 5 -4 -4 4 -4 4


~ Bob Dylan
. 

Poetry

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.


~ Marianne Moore
.