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“350″ is the word (number?) on the street. Many 350s, on many streets.
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Photography exhibition at Hopworks Urban Brewery
A few of my photos are part of another group exhibition, this time at Hopworks Urban Brewery, 2944 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202. Same photos as last year’s show at Monochrome Gallery, but the beer will be better. Unless you love-love-love PBR, which, admittedly, has its own charms.
Dust and Stuff
Dust: There are still intermittent dust storms, though nothing on the scale of what we saw a few weeks ago. Hazy days and cleaning up and mopping.
Cleaning Up: is also happening here. Links and catgories are currently wonky, but I hope not for long. It depends on my laser-beam focus and attention span. Speaking of attention spans, I’m finally beginning to say “haych” instead of “aych”, as in “ADhaychD”, and not “ADaychD”. It’s a small thing, but it’s nice to be understood when speaking. Um, where were we again?
Stuff: We’ve been in Brisbane nearly a year now. Eleven months. The heat and the palm trees, the leopard print and the hayches: it’s almost normal. And when life is normal, I often forget that there are still stories to tell.
Now, Don’t Go Saying That You Never Learn Anything On This Here Blog.
So! I heard from Justin who heard from some lady that there is no such thing as commercial kangaroo farming in Australia. The kangaroo meat sold at the grocery stores is hunted. With guns.
Apparently, kangaroo hunters drive around in their trucks (and by “trucks” I mean “utes“) looking for ‘roos. Once the hunter spies a ‘roo, he shoots it. After the kill, the hunter loads the ‘roo into the back of his ute and drives it around until he spies a meat locker. Then he drops the ‘roo in the locker and someone from a commercial kangaroo meat processing plant comes around and picks up all the lockers. And then you get to buy a packet of kangaroo mince at Woolies for, like, $7.99/kg or something like that.
There are probably meat inspections and tag numbers and big fat paychecks, too, but I can’t tell you that for sure. My brain didn’t retain that part of the story, or maybe I stopped listening. If you’re curious, you’ll have to ask Justin about it. I think he might have also said something about unicorns and fairies?
Oh, also, here’s an article about unsubstantiated stories and where those stories are most believed. Hello, echo chamber!
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