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outdoors the gold coast is powerless

outdoors the gold coast is powerless 3

branches blew and trees spent over themselves to escape, while the soil was sodden with an excessive amount of innocent water. the green and gold and the obscenely bright sunshine has gone. it does seems that it will be missing for many weeks and it’s replacement unloading on those below it, for a very long [...]

bucketing down here and i need a bucket

bucketing down here and i need a bucket 6

it’s amazing, the south east of queensland australia is nearly underwater. tbaoo is floating, surviving, surfing the rain, smoking cigarettes, internetting and watching with alarmed interest the peculiar going’s on. it seems like a tremendously frightening thing and i’m very lucky that aside from what appears to be a slight leak in the roof, i’m [...]

australia day is january 26 2012

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it’s a bit early i know, but january 26 – australia day is here very soon and a traditional australian celebration is the eat lamb campaign with the ever so subtle sam kekovich. below is as copied from youtube … After years travelling the world on his one-man crusade against unAustralianism, Sam Kekovich has realised [...]

soundgarden and the big day out

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wow, the past 12 months have flown by .. it’s big day out time again here on the gold coast and it’s the 20th year of this marvellously funky festival. to celebrate this exciting event and the fact i don’t seem to attend anymore, here’s two wonderfully melodious songs from one of the headliners … [...]

tbaoo should be less judgemental

tbaoo should be less judgemental 12

it’s very odd, strange and somewhat less than satisfying around here at the moment. someone asked me the other day how the blogging is going and when i thought about i realised that it’s not going very well. maybe i need a beautiful muse ? i have failed to find any material for some time, [...]

call the oncall call centre for tbaoo

call the oncall call centre for tbaoo 10

well i’m on call again, on standby and standing by. no goodbye just hello. if i have to run away very quickly, i’ll be ready to do so. i have prepared my shorts, shoes and have loads of clean underwear. you may wonder why i’d need clean under wear ? it’s simple, if i’m out [...]