slackbastard- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #206 w Dr Stephanie Wescott on Andrew Tate & misogyny in the classroom : May 9, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #205 w Jordana Silverstein on history, Palestine, Zionism & more : May 2, 2024
- May Day in Melbourne : 2024
- antifa notes (april 24, 2024) : right-wing extremism and inquiring minds
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #204 w Fran Amery on ‘organised transphobia’ : April 25, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #203 w Alex Hanna on AI hype, surveillance, war & work : April 18, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #202 w Tyler West on Southern Africa in the political imagination of New Zealand’s radical right : April 4, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024
- #LetWomenSpeak (2023) ~vs~ #WomenWillSpeak (2024) in Naarm/Melbourne
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #200 w Andy Fleming & Cam Smith : March 21, 2024
- Plashing Vole
Tag Archives: Fitness
glad animal action
I’m sometimes asked why cricket caught my imagination so strongly when I was a kid. I usually answer that it was something to do with masculinity and those magnificent moustaches that early eighties Australian test players sported, especially fast bowlers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cricket, Family, Fitness, forgetting, Frank Tyson, Freedom, Hope, Jeff Thomson, joy, Love, Middle Age, Parenting
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don’t you think the joker laughs at you?
I’ve tried to quit smoking about six hundred times and I fail. I fail to actually stop. At precisely the same time I’m saying I don’t want to do this anymore I am sucking on a cancer stick and loving … Continue reading
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Tagged Aporia, choices, Derrida, Family, Fatherhood, Fitness, Freedom, Hope, Love, Middle Age, Quit Smoking, Smoking, Weight Loss
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onward, ever onward
Now I’m back from Nepal and ensconced in the usual things the temptation is to start to dream afresh, to find a new escape tunnel. But I’m not really escaping in any meaningful sense, just looking out the window and that … Continue reading
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Tagged camino de santiago, choices, Exploration, Falklands, Fitness, Middle Age, royal np, saturday afternoons, Weight Loss, work life balance
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deep play in Nepal
The Homecoming has happened. I’m returned to the Folly after my Nepalese ticket of leave and I’m overjoyed to be home. The dream happened, I walked a long way in places it seems unlikely I’ll ever go back to and … Continue reading
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Tagged deep play, Falklands, Family, Fitness, Freedom, Hope, Love, Middle Age, Nepal, Parenting, Trekking, Weight Loss, work life balance
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safe at home
I am presently getting a bit of grief at home and at work about my impending departure for Nepal. I will, as part of this departure, be leaving things undone and responsibilities unfulfilled professionally and personally. I know that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Falklands, Family, Fatherhood, Fitness, Love, Middle Age, Parenting, Trekking, Weight Loss, work life balance
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inside passage to pokhara
In Jonathan Raban’s beautiful book Passage to Juneau he connects the story to of his boat journey to Juneau, Alaska, to his sense of wonder at being where he is and doing what he’s doing and how extraordinary it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Annapurna, choices, Exploration, Family, Fatherhood, Fitness, Freedom, Hope, Jonathan Raban, Love, Middle Age, Nepal, Pacific Northwest, Passage to Juneau, Trekking, Vancouver
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KPIs don’t measure dreams
The Falklands plan fell through. Too much dosh, too much uncertainty: couldn’t do it. I have decided to go to Nepal in November, less dosh and less uncertainty. This has, and is, causing the Rustichellos some angst. I’m going high … Continue reading
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Tagged Annapurna, Falklands, Family, Fatherhood, Fitness, Freedom, KPIs, Middle Age, Nepal, Parenting, Trekking, work life balance
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cool as kim deal
Ambition is a funny thing. When you’re young ambition is a marker of difference, individuating us from each other. The combination of self belief and forward trajectory is how difference is marked because there isn’t anything else: no achievements worth … Continue reading
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Tagged Aishwarya Rai, Ambition, Drive, Family, Fitness, Freedom, Kim Deal, Self Belief, Self Image, Stephen Hawking, Usain Bolt, work life balance, workplaces
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29.55
This morning I did it. I ran five kilometres in twenty nine minutes and fifty five seconds. For the most part I was moving within my limits but there was some unseemly acceleration in the final four hundred metres to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fatherhood, Fitness, Hope, Middle Age, runnning, Trekking, Weight Loss
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way to go me
I’m still hitting the gym most mornings, though my weight doesn’t move too much anymore. But this morning I did manage 31.35m for my five k run and that is as close to my goal (30min/5k) as close as I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Fitness, Hope, Middle Age, running, Trekking, Weight Loss, work life balance
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