FuN PaRTY
I went to a party on a Saturday night. It was in a shop and was organized by a woman who manages a burlesque group called "Baby Take A Bow". It was a great party, lots of people but not so many that you cant move around, we stayed for ages. The music was pretty cool a good mix of stuff, and there was a burlesque tap by the organizer some time after midnight. I like burlesque, its sort of like lingerie. Its sexy, with good music, without being totally naked. Which is a relief when you work in a porno shop.

DRaMaS
There was a drama during the night of the party but that's to be expected, haven't had a drama free night in years. I felt weird the morning after because I was still angry when I woke up. It felt good to be angry, it was like a surge of energy in my veins. It was a nice change. Usually I'm tried, hungover and my emotions are pretty down. The dramas sort of been sorted, so less said the better.

HoT, HoT, HoT
from the OddSpot in The Age newspaper:
An ice-cream has been created in Cary, North Carolina, that is so hot that customers must sign a waver before tasting it. Cold Sweat made with 3 kinds of peppers and 2 kinds of hot sauce was created to appeal to hispanic customers. One said "It tasted like fire with a side of fire."

TaTToo CoVeRuPS
I like to read the tattoo mags at work, there's some nice work in them and some stuff you wonder why the fuck someone would want to put on their body. My favorites are the cover-ups, they tell a story more than a normal picture of a tattoo. You can see why someone would get it done. Some are just a better picture of the old tattoo they're covering up, and some are totally different. Its cool to try and see the old one in the new one or how they did it.
The funniest one I saw was a guy who had a woman's name tattoo, instead of getting it covered completely he just got a tattoo that looked like a stamp done over the top of it. What did the tattoo/stamp say? BITCH. Must've been a bad breakup.

SMiLiNG PoRN CuSToMeRS
There's something that still disturbs me after all the years of working in a porn shop. The customer who smiles too much. Not a person who's laughing at the stuff in the shop, not the person who's just happy, it's the person who smiles like a nut. There's only a few but they creep me out.

DuMB CuSToMeRS
In winter in the shop we have a heater next to the till, it gets fucking cold. The tills right in front of the door so the wind goes straight down the stairs onto me. At least half a dozen times a day I have to tell customers not to put their plastic bags against the heater. Does lust for porn make people stupid? Does their genitalia take over from their brain as they walk down the stairs? It makes me realize how house fires start if someone is so stupid to not know that heat and plastic mixing means fire or at least a stinky smell. I suppose its nature way of getting the dumb people out of the gene pool.

SeCReT WaLL TaTTooS
What's a secret wall tattoo? It's a picture done somewhere that is not normally seen, like a behind the fridge or under a table. I've heard of people doing them in hotels, so eventually when they eventually change something about the room thereÂ’s a secret wall tattoo that's artist is untraceable because by the time they see it the person long gone.

DiD You KNoW?
Around 1944 Enid Blyton (the writer of Noddy) wrote a wartime book about the adventures of 3 golliwogs. Their name were Golly, Woggy and Nigger.
I wonder why I cant find it in any bookshop?

JuNKieS aRe GeTTiNG LaZY iN ST.KiLDa
I was walking down fitzroy st to a tram stop to go to work and a junkie chick asked me for spare 50c for a phone call, not unusual, but the chick was sitting in a car. When I didn't give her any money she swore at me as I walked off. I heard it, so I stared through the windscreen at her as I crossed the road in front of the car. I couldn't see her cos of the light reflecting off it, so I just stared where I knew where she was.
I suppose it shows how stupid or how desperate you become on drugs. What made me laugh was her reaction to me not giving her any. Why the fuck would I give her 50c while she's sitting on her arse in a car, she must think people are as stupid as her, fuckin idiot.

GReaT QuoTe FRoM a GReaT CoMiC:
"The all night convenience store is the cornerstone of the urban economy, where whole families of first generation immigrants pool their savings for a foothold in the american dream.
They work hard all day and all fucking night, while their kids who learned english from daffy duck cartoons, study a.p. nuclear physics on cases of slim jims in the stock room.
Some of them have survived political and religious persecution for the privilege of selling you a stale danish.
While the average white american junkie was pawning daddyÂ’s lexus rims, these guys were bartering with the local paramilitary for their eight-year-olds virginity.
It is by far the dumbest place on earth to try and rob"
1st page of issue 7 of the exterminators by tony moore, simon oliver & ande parks

aNoTHeR FeW PRoVeRBS:
A knife does not know its master
congolese
The dead are many, the living few
buddhist
The one in a hurry is always late
georgian
Why be miserable for the sake of pleasure?
india
The deceitful carry a double load
hindi
When a man falls, the whole world walks over him
swedish

SoMe QueSTioNS:
- Is the fear of heights actually a fear of falling, a safety thing from the past from our tree dwelling ancestors? Maybe it explains why so many people have falling dreams.
- Has a child of a star ever played their own parent in an autobiographical film of their parents life?
- Humans are supposed to be the most intelligent species on the planet, if other species are so dumb why cant we understand their simple languages

JoKe
A backpacker got home from a visit to australia. When he was asked how the people were, he told his friends this "Aussies will share their house, their food, their booze, theyll share everything with you. Its those white bastards you gotta watch out for.