Bruce's News Bulletin 13 March

Coffee Thoughts
I now have access to real coffee... be afraid be very afraid. Before Makiko busted out the cash for a drip percolator I had become an expert on instant coffee. The correct amount for different style cups. Whether moccona is better than nescafe gold and that kind of thing.

I saw a shit movie the other day where this guy couldn't get his morning coffee at work so he ended up eating it by the spoonful. Has anyone else ever done that? I guess the coffee is kind of in the middle of that equation. I don't what would be the best order for all the coffee ingredients. What do you think. Coffee grinds first washed down with scalding hot water followed by a milk chaser.

Speaking of chasers Makiko busted out a new term the other day.. poo chaser. It is the kind of fart that smells so much like you shit your pants that you know you are going to have a solid brown chaser. Hence the term poo chaser.

Music
Recently I have been listening to korean pop music by a chick called yunees. Also been listening too the prodigy's new album always outnumbered, never outgunned.

Books
I am reading Blood brothers which is about gangs in Asia. Mainly dealing with Chinese triad, Japanese yakuza and Thailand's god fathers. It is pretty dry reading but it interesting to read about Shanghai in the 20s and 30s before the wars and communism. Of course Dr 'O' (as opium is sometimes known in Thailand as a great medicine and doctor rolled into one) was quite popular over there at that time. What happened which was interesting was the international community. There was a lot of trade with the Japanese so they were largest foreign community. But after them the most numerous were the Russian Tsar loyalists who bailed out of Siberia and Russia to escape the commies. Also the English had there own concession where they had there own laws and architecture and shit. It was policed by Indian Sikhs. Then there was the French concession it had an Anmese (Vietnamese) police force with triad and chinese connections. So I reckon that city would have been a blast back in the day before the commies and civil insurrection gutted it's colourful nature.

Books .... continued
Books I want read include the new one from Jared Diamond (who did that lengthy dry but real fucking interesting tome called Guns, Germs and Steel about why some cultures kicked arse ie European civilizations and others got toasted ie mostly aboriginal populations.) The new ones about why some civilizations perished. Also I want to read right and wrong by Hugh Mackay (He's an Australian socialogist) about how people pick their morals and I guess on that note Peter Singer's book on Bush's personal sense of right and wrong would be interesting.

And I saw an interview with that chick that wrote a book called why french women don't get fat and it inspired to think of some other books with a question in the title that I should write.... like

Why footy players get drunk and get into fights?
Why banks don't care?

Movies
I recently saw Fareheit 9/11 by leftist litterati and shock docu king Michael Moore I thought it was ok but not as good as Bowling for Columbine. I think he could have had more bush supporters explaining there point of view on the issues he raised. At least with the gun rights thing he talked to the NRA president and shit and got some opposing arguments and stuff.

Napoleon Dynamite is the bomb and I want to watch sideways and those relatively new kung fu movies that have come out hero and house of flying daggers.

Oh and it is good to finally see the new appleseed movie based on Masamune Shirow's comic book even if they did change the plot around quite a bit.

Food
I am sick of sausages and have been having zucchini with everything. Recently I like cooking up the big breakfast on the cast iron frying pan in the morning. Usually I fry up bacon, eggs, zucchini, tomato, mushrooms with a few italian spices and sea salt. Add tomato or bbq sauce to taste.

I have also become addicted to sour snakes and milka choclate somebody save me.

Alcohol
Heard bundaberg rum make you frisky and fired up so I have been drinking that with coke of late. On the wine front the Western Australians are doing quite well I like 2003 Houghton Cabernet Sauvignon for red and the 2004 Houghton Semillion Sauvignon Blanc (great white shark not too fucking sweet but with plenty of tart bite).

Yep that's about it I'll catch you on the flip side