LIVING IN SUBURBIA

Sometimes, the soundtrack of your life says something perfect...

Did something I haven't done for a long time this morning: jumped on the bicycle, banged the ipod in my ears (took it out, attached earphones, put them in my ears. More comfortable, and there's music!), and inflamed my arthritic knees down to Bunnings and back to pick up a couple of things for the house.

It's early on a Saturday morning, it's a sunny day, I'm riding through deepest, darkest, middle class suburbia, people are out in their front gardens, doing all those middle class things middle class people do on a Saturday morning-- mowing, washing the four wheel drives they never take further than the shopping centre, wiping down the lawn furniture for another garage sale...

And what comes on the playlist? Pleasant Valley Sunday by the Monkees. Followed by REM's The End of The World As We Know It.

I had to get off the bike I was laughing so hard.

It's just a pleasant valley Sunday-hey! Here in status-symbol laaaannnndddd........

MEMEY MEMEY MEMEY

Gakked from a whole bunch of people.

Go to Wikipedia, enter in your birthdate (sans year), post three events, two births and one death.

EVENTS

1215 - The Fourth Lateran Counil meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ. (Heh. Given my views, somewhat ironic, non?)
1634 - The Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".
1930 - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard for their invention, the Einstein Refrigerator.

BIRTHS

1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
1897 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)

DEATH

1917 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (b. 1838)

There's really a very long list of happenings on this day. It's here. Check it out, there's quite a lot of fun stuff, if you've got a mind like mine.

COMINZEE OP!

Couple of events on the horizon at which you may like to join myself and Luscious.

Luscious and I will be reading at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer's Centre Open Day on April 23rd, between 11.15 and 11.45. I'll have copies of Through Soft Air there for sale, as well as copies of Aurealis 36 and some of the other magazines in which we've appeared.

I'll be placed under the microscope at Australian Science Fiction in Focus for a 2 week stint as guest interviewee starting the 14th of June. Luscious will take her place before your gaze for a fortnight from 23rd August.

I'll remind you closer to the dates, but at least now you know!

Song of the moment: Even Flow Pearl Jam