Stuff I’ve Read, Watched, Done #8 – April 14, 2020

I’m tempted to feel like the cheerful novelty of pseudo-lockdown is beginning to lose its sheen.  To be sure, my family and I are suffering nothing but inconvenience, but inconvenience must still be met with grace to avoid it becoming more difficult then necessary.

The Daily Spoon #18 – #MonthoftheSpoon

In celebration of the Spoons of our life–ubiquitous but often unrecognized–Blue Towel Productions is proud to present the Daily Spoon, which we were are celebrating this September, the Month of the Spoon. #MonthoftheSpoon

Today’s spoon showed up at dinner.

Supanova 2016 – Perth’s Pop Culture Expo

Last weekend, for the fourth time, I made my way to Supanova, the pop culture expo that’s been running in Perth since 2008, highlighting all sorts of stuff pertaining to “geek culture,” ie comics, science fiction, fantasy, anime and the like.  I went with my friend  who has attended with me a couple of times before, and who this time brought his teen daughter with him.

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In my adult years I’ve only been to a few conventions, less than you’d think considering how much I enjoy this sort of stuff, or at least some of it. That’s probably because I live in Australia, in the far away city of Perth.  It’s a beautiful place but there are only a couple of events like this each year, and often I can’t really do much of the things I want at them.  Still, I gave it a go.  We had fun hanging out, and though I can’t say it was an unqualified success, it was probably as good I could have hoped for.

Strange Times in the Cinema – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Back in 2009, my (grown) nephew was visiting my family in Australia, and we decided it would be fun to take in a movie.  So the two of us took a look at what was out there, and decided to go see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  I think we had already heard the bad reviews, but were willing to give it a go for the benefit of seeing something big and loud and hopefully fun.  So off we went to the last theatre in the downtown of Perth, my home located on the West Coast of Australia.  It was a fun little theatre called the Picadilly, which has since closed down, and used to show movies a little later than you’d see in the multiplexes, and for a lot cheaper.

Confusion is Like Mustard

Well well well, here we go with this project.  This was filmed and edited back in 1998 when I was working late one night with my good friend Dwight (co-author of True Blues) and we decided to just go for it.  The quality is pretty shocking because of course it was done in glorious Hi-8, and because I’m still trying to figure out how to best digitally convert  my VHS tapes in the best way.

Perth: Back to Dull and Boring?

It’s election time in Western Australia!  Just a state election, but still compulsory.  And no doubt that this year, 2013, is going to be the year of campaigning-related mail.