Here are my picks for stuff around Melbourne that I like to do/go to:

Eating and Drinking
Grumpy's Green - it has Mountain Goat and lots of local beers on tap and best of all the food is vegetarian so yay I can get my eggplant parmiagia.
Mrs Parmas - Again as a veggo I miss out gettting a parma and pot at most pubs, whilst its a bit pricier ($18 for eggplant) its still yum and they have awesome microbrewery beers on tap.
Union Club Hotel, Collingwood - really good pub food
John Curtin Hotel, Carlton - good pub food and good live music
East Brunswick Club - good pub food and good live music and they have vegan/veg food
Mountain Goat Brewery - open nights on Wed and Friday nights, place of my fave beer
Terminus Hotel (the one on Victoria St in Abbotsford) - nice good and good fun drag bingo and trivia nights.
Shanghai Dumpling Village (Lt Bourke st towards exhibition) i love the dumplings there and you can buy them frozen (i think its like $12 for $5.50)
Menulog  - for food delivery - no more dealing with trying to talk to someone in a loud restuarant or dealing with language issues as is wont to happen with certain types of cuisine
LIttle Cupcake - expensive but who can be fucked to make their own? I can't so its a nice treat
Houptoun Tea Rooms in the arcade off collins st - like a trip back in time, I love having scones and cream there
Boreks (Vic Market deli section where all the cheeses are sold) - $5 salads which are yummy and distinctive and $2.50 boreks YUM

Pets
Ingrid's Haven

Attractions
William Rickett's Sanctuary and surrounding Olinda shops to just wander around like Gepetto's and Oracle bookshop
Hanging Rock (and around Woodend, Kyneton, Mt Macdeon region)
Healesville and the associated wineries
Dight's Falls in Abbotsford
Abbotsford Convent
St Andrew's Market
Queen Vic Night Market - I don't really like the day one much, it has too many stalls of the $2 shop variety (eg cheap shit made in China) but i like the night market as there are way more artisan stalls where its actually made here from locally sourced stuff

What are your recommendations?

For all you Melbourne lovers of the occasional tipple.

Just found this site and tells you what stores stock the particular booze you're hunting and who does it cheaper & who has it on special.

It searches your surrounding suburbs or can search all suburbs.
Figured could be helpful!

What will the interweb think of next?

Boozle

This promoter is going all out to launch the Center as a Thursday night Reggae spotlight! $500 for the hottest "5 star gal".

In honor of their birthdays; Fast Cheap & Out of Control presents Elvis vs. Bowie.
Featuring special guest DJ Helvis Presley spinning a selection of Bowie and Elvis covers and tributes.

Elvis & Bowie impersonators get in free before midnight!
No cover before 11pm. $5 cover after.
$1 pbr's b4 midnight, $2 after
$2 lagers b4 midnight
$3 jager shots b4 midnight
$4 lager & shot of jim beam all night long!

Philadelphia's ORIGINAL rock & roll amateur go-go night! Every Sunday Night!
10pm-2am 21+
Fluid Nightclub
613 S. 4th Street
Philadelphia, PA

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Themes: Dance, Naughty, My Drug, I am so Drunk, So Cool, Animal, Red, Fake, & 4 artist choice
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Anyone know any female vegans or vegetarians (note: not the kind who eat fish and gelatine) who might want to move into a room in a really cute house on the Richmond side of Hawthorn? Rent is cheap for the location and room size.

( Details under cut )

Basically we want someone who isn't a bogan, isn't a Young Liberal, and isn't a child who expects their housemates to provide for them.

Unicycles welcome.

Is there any sort of knot I can make so that this seashell will lie flat on someone's chest if they wear it as a necklace?



( A closer look )

I want to avoid jump rings if possible. I also want to avoid metal clasps. Any advice on how to close/tie the necklace without a metal clasp but still have it look nice? And, a pastel-colored silk cord would look best as the chain, I think. Do you have any other suggestions for a chain?

HI guys.  I have this as a tattoo- the owl only not the box around it (sorry this is the drawing, I lost the pic of it - its on my right calf and it is about the size of a deck of cards):



Im thinking of adding branches around him, in the same henna brown.  He sometimes feels to be just floating on my leg, hes not grounded there.  The branches would be craggly and twisty like him.

Thoughts?

I am also considering getting this tattooed:

or at least one of the feathers, they are drawings of my birds feathers.  I have no idea where good placement would be though- will take any suggestions and pros-cons.  Unfortunatly- Due to my profession I cant have anything visable in scrubs- though my current boss wouldnt care- future ones might.

again, thoughts?

thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!

"Tiara"
Mark Doty

Peter died in a paper tiara
cut from a book of princess paper dolls;
he loved royalty, sashes

and jewels. I don’t know,
he said, when he woke in the hospice,
I was watching the Bette Davis film festival

on Channel 57 and then—
At the wake, the tension broke
when someone guessed

the casket closed because
he was in there in a big wig
and heels, and someone said,

You know he’s always late,
he probably isn’t here yet—
he’s still fixing his makeup.

And someone said he asked for it.
Asked for it—
when all he did was go down

into the salt tide
of wanting as much as he wanted,
giving himself over so drunk

or stoned it almost didn’t matter who,
though they were beautiful,
stampeding into him in the simple,

ravishing music of their hurry.
I think heaven is perfect stasis
poised over the realms of desire,

where dreaming and waking men lie
on the grass while wet horses
roam among them, huge fragments

of the music we die into
in the body’s paradise.
Sometimes we wake not knowing

how we came to lie here,
or who has crowned us with these temporary,
precious stones. And given

the world’s perfectly turned shoulders,
the deep hollows blued by longing,
given the irreplaceable silk

of horses rippling in orchards,
fruit thundering and chiming down,
given the ordinary marvels of form

and gravity, what could he do,
what could any of us ever do
but ask for it.

"Dear Miss Emily"
James Galvin

I knew the end would be gone before I got there.
After all, all rainbows lie for a living.
And as you have insisted, repeatedly,
The difference between death and the Eternal
Present is about as far as one
Eyelash from the next, not wished upon.
Rainbows are not forms or stories, are they?
They are not doors ajar so much as far-
Flung situations without true beginnings
Or any ends—why bother—unless, as you
Suggest—repeatedly—there’s nothing wrong
With this life, and we should all stop whining.
So I shift my focus now on how to end
A letter. In XOXOXO,
For example, Miss, which are the hugs
And which the kisses? Does anybody know?
I could argue either way: the O’s
Are circles of embrace, the X is someone
Else’s star burning inside your mouth;
Unless the O is a mouth that cannot speak,
Because, you know, it’s busy.
X is the crucifixion all embraces
Are, here at the nowhere of the rainbow’s end,
Where even light has failed its situation,
Slant the only life it ever had,
Where even the most gallant sunset can’t
Hold back for more than a nonce the rain-laden
Eastern sky of night. It’s clear. It’s clear.
X’s are both hugs and kisses, O’s
Where stars that died gave out, gave up, gave in—
Where no one meant the promises they made.
Oh, and one more thing. I send my love
However long and far it takes—through light,
Through time, thorough all the faithlessness of men,

James Augustin Galvin,

          X,

His mark.

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In this New Year
my quill lays unsung,
parchment slowly curling,
like Time's fetal unfurling.

Oh you ragged vane quill,
poemless much too long,
spill thy burden of ink onto
this skin of stillborn lamb.

Release me from this
frozen time, this place
where thoughts are dark,
poets lonely and silent.

More Trucks...

I have never seen this movie.

True story. I have heard that its WAY more fun to see in a theater, but since there arent any showing it anymore, should I just break down and add it to my Netflix, or keep waiting?

*I always love feedback/critiques/suggestions. Thanks for readings

Flower Heads and Grain

We were conceived
as vulnerable spindles

w/ ballet eyes

made of metal & glass.

In a palm or on a femur,
sleep is a pulley.

We revise:

Rest
is not gained.

We hit the pummel horse
like street drummers.

Tribal rhymes.

In the kitchen sun,
apples melting in a pot,
silver whisk
& crank.

In a cabin
w/ Henry, pen
& lantern.

We leave behind
ink fingerprints

smudgeclouds on the
tabletops.

We are the undeniable

walking through
phonetic arches while

Whitman continues
to heal Newark.
We prove & define.

______________
http://thebroadset.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/Broadset

*I always love feedback/critiques/suggestions. Thanks for readings

Flower Heads and Grain

We were conceived
as vulnerable spindles

w/ ballet eyes

made of metal & glass.

In a palm or on a femur,
sleep is a pulley.

We revise:

Rest
is not gained.

We hit the pummel horse
like street drummers.

Tribal rhymes.

In the kitchen sun,
apples melting in a pot,
silver whisk
& crank.

In a cabin
w/ Henry, pen
& lantern.

We leave behind
ink fingerprints

smudgeclouds on the
tabletops.

We are the undeniable

walking through
phonetic arches while

Whitman continues
to heal Newark.
We prove & define.

______________
http://thebroadset.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/Broadset