The Wax Conspiracy

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Many things are strange things and here are things from our writings. Interviews, adventure trails, cooking recipes and homebrew breakdowns.

The lower you go, the further back in time you venture. Delight.

Pokémon Oreos x Money Laundering

Rare biscuits are as common as diarrhoea and not surprisingly look good enough to eat through dirty money. Wash, wipe, repeat, and you’ve got yourself a scheme brewing.

Once Upon a Time in [Latin] America

#viajesconmigoyconotro - 2 new photos added at 1800 hrs of 24 January 2019

Once Upon a Time in Patagonia - an epistolary

“Every day I keep writing this report bit by bit, so that it looks like a diary without a date. Please be patient in reading it.” (Letter of Sebastian Rodrigues)

Racing to stand at the Women’s March on Washington, D.C.

Others may have an idea enough to knit beanies weeks ahead of time. Others still decide two days earlier is enough to rack up the car with supplies and head twelve hours long over an estimated nine to stand in with the crowd marching on with signs and clear plastic backpacks.

Sharknado 2: The Second One: Fishing the Manifest

Here then, a non-exhaustive, non-comprehensive list of all the plausible references, easter eggs, nods and connections in the scenes and cameos of The Asylum's Sharknado 2: The Second One.

Go Big Shadow City: Interview with Jonathan Zeitlin & Pauline Mu of Alpine Decline

Worlds traded with two of the nicest people in the world. They happen to be in the same band. Edited only for consistency of style.

The Fortnight of Living Dangerously

Vicarious pleasure in my brain leads one toward a fantastic life never the same. #thefortnightoflivingdangerously - 1 new photos added at 0900 hrs of 15 December 2013

Too many horses, throw a horse away: Interview with Burton Durand of Horse_eComics

Leg Butt. And so it begins. And also, this interview with Burton Durand, the creator and mind behind Horse_eComics.

Sydney Film Festival 2013, a selection: post-credit music plays softly

ten flicks hastily reviewed on twitter and posted on the insistence of a crazy-brave editor

No incoming calls allowed

Spending money on international calling cards is for the discerning traveller who finds the act of burning actual money rather gauche. Thirty dollars vanishes into a few minutes quicker than catching earwax from a payphone. If you're stranded out somewhere and you're relying on a phone card to get you through... oh dear.

Postcards from the (not so) holy land

Lo-fi photo essay walking the lands of Israel #ThisIsTelAviving

Wrestling in parallel with Rowdy Red

Standing near a wrestler just outside a clothesline's reach and volleying questions to their answers has got to be something close to an interview when the transcript is done.

Garfield's Ghosts and the Veterans Day Misdirection

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making people think he didn't exist. Jim Davis, on the other hand, sits in an cloud fluffed by others where he no longer works directly on the Garfield comic strip. Causing controversy to right that boat and steer the light back onto his hands was enough to muddy, and seemingly dispel, the rumours for at least another year.

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