Ramblin'

Gave myself a morning off from moving duties to indulge a couple of passions. Began by snapping street art around St Peters/Newtown.

Six more pics here - http://artovfarkhus.tumblr.com/post/159523059666/brick-gallery

Went to a cafe to try that "smashed avo" concoction I'm always hearing raves about. Ended up trying a coconut-enhanced hot chocolate instead. It tasted like this.

Dropped in at Gould's Book Arcade, where I spotted a gamebook not in my collection. Sold!

Outside the store, two guys sitting on crates and eating breakfast pizzas asked me which of their jeans I preferred. Said, "I'm wearing tracky daks, what do I know?" But they insisted I choose, so I went for the bell bottoms over the elastic ankle. As I left, their owner bragged to his mate, "That's two-and-a-half to zero!" He didn't look like this.

Walked to the National Maritime Museum in Pyrmont for the exhibition "Escape From Pompeii: The Untold Roman Rescue". The name says it all. Contrary to the impression we've been given since childhood, the inhabitants of Pompeii (and Herculaneum) had plenty of warning and most fled the volcanic eruption in time. The ships on the poster represent the Roman fleet, commanded by Pliny The Elder, which was summoned from across the bay to ferry folk to safety.

Swung by my old office (I can call it that now). Chatted with JC about prehistoric animals and scored a copy of DL's latest kickass fanzine.

Arrived home to find I'd received a funny/blasphemous Easter card from the Michelin tyre company's well-known mascot, Bibendum. Not sure why he was using a pseudonym. Unless it WASN'T Bibendum but his counterpart from an alternate universe...

Pick of the podcasts

TOPIC - [title to search for]


ANIME - "ANNcast"

BOOKS - "The Book Review" ("The New York Times"), "The 'Guardian' Books Podcast"

CARS/HUMOUR - "Women Talking About Cars"

CARTOONS/ROLE-PLAYING - "The Gameable Podcast"

COMICS - "Serious Issues", "The '2000AD' Thrill-Cast"

CRICKET - "The Unplayable Podcast"

DESIGN - "99% Invisible"

"DOCTOR WHO" - "Radio Free Skaro", "The Big Finish Podcast"

GEEK CULTURE - "Hey Fam!", "The Purple Stuff Podcast"

GENERAL - "Radio Diaries", "Radiolab", "Reply All"

HISTORY - "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History"

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY - "You Must Remember This"

JACK THE RIPPER (& VICTORIAN-ERA CRIME) - "Rippercast"

MATHS - "A Brief History Of Mathematics" (finite set)

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS - "The MMA Hour With Ariel Helwani"

MOVIES - "Kermode And Mayo's Film Review"

MYSTERIES - "Mystery Show" (RIP)

POP CULTURE - "Slate's Culture Gabfest", "SRSLY"

PRO WRESTLING - "The LAW" (multiple shows)

PSYCHOLOGY - "The Psychology Podcast"

ROLE-PLAYING - "The Grognard Files"

SOCCER - "Football Weekly" ("The Guardian")

SOUND - "Twenty Thousand Hertz"

TRIVIA - "No Such Thing As A Fish"

TRUE-CRIME SERIES - "Accused", "Crimetown", "Hollywood & Crime", "Serial", "Undisclosed" (skip to Season 2), "Up And Vanished", "Who Killed Elsie Frost?" (go to BBC site)

UNCLASSIFIABLE (VAGUELY BIOGRAPHY) - "S-Town"

VIDEOGAMES - "8-4 Play", "One Life Left"

WORDS - "The Allusionist"


And those are just my subscriptions :-)

Enjoy!*

*Maybe not the right word when it comes to the crime pods, but you know what I mean.