Miracles, McGyver, Magic Kingdoms
Fuck, I’m too tired to write anything. Also, I have a chocolate cake craving that I’ve only partially satisfied so far. Good news though. I had a meeting with the supervisor and she says the last chapter I did was up to standards and even ‘interesting.’ Now the next thing she wants to see is the whole thing except for the intro and conclusion chapters. This means that there is a lot of work to do, but also that we have reached the beginning of the end. It’s great.
Oh, and today the gear lever fell off my bike, but I fixed it by the roadside with my handy Swiss army knife even though I don’t really know how it works. I am too resourceful, McGyver style. Actually the really interesting part of this story is how it happened while I was going down the driveway of an abandoned theme park. There is a place in Chipping Norton that was apparently once called ‘The Magic Kingdom’ - it has a giant, rusted slipperydip, a burnt-down house, and piles of garbage everywhere. The fences are full of holes. It’s a symbol of innocence lost. Also of how run-down this area is. And the general unprofitability of theme parks, for that matter. I’m going to get photos next time. Anyone wanna come?
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Clover Moore would be proud of you. Now make sure you pop it into your, ugh, ‘Go’ bag, just in case…
I love abandoned theme parks. So Scooby Doo!
Comment by nailpolishblues — Wednesday July 18 2007 @ 9:20 pm
Oh that ‘go bag’ thing was pathetic. Something about being a city mayor means you have to be a self-important little despot, I guess.
Comment by Mark — Wednesday July 18 2007 @ 10:06 pm
It was the second most amusing thing that I’ve heard about this week (the first requiring too much explanation to bother with).
Comment by nailpolishblues — Wednesday July 18 2007 @ 10:14 pm
Sounds like a great place to take photographs! You could get people to wear strange outfits, and use black and white film…..
This post makes me want to watch “spirited away” now.
Comment by Julia — Wednesday July 18 2007 @ 11:14 pm
Shelley - go on, that’s wot the internet is for!
Julia - With incomprehensible ideas like that, you’d be a hit at film school.
Comment by Mark — Thursday July 19 2007 @ 12:52 pm
1. Those McGyver moments are always awesome.
2. An abandoned amusement park sounds like the perfect setting for the ‘final battle/showdown’ scene of some movie.
Of course, if we were to follow movie trends right now it would problably be used in some cheesy horrof flick. “The Coaster - ‘You’ll scream all the way down’ Summer ‘08″
Comment by Becky — Thursday July 19 2007 @ 4:56 pm
Oh, Chipping Norton. They have some Jazz festival on the lake there every year or so. Took a walk from the nearest station, Warwick Farm. Was not near at all. Was sweating rivulets actually. And the place was rather far from the main roads. At least there was a lake there. And jazz.
Comment by Switch — Thursday July 19 2007 @ 6:11 pm
Becky - That’s right. Next time I fight ninjas, I’ll schedule the showdown for the abandoned theme park.
Switch - Yeah, it’s miles from the train line. I go down there because there’s a long stretch of quiet road between Hume Hwy and the lake that you can ride a bike on - a hard thing to find around these parts. I’m gonna google the jazz thing tho. That sounds cool.
Comment by Mark — Thursday July 19 2007 @ 6:21 pm
No, really, I can’t. I’d probably get sacked.
Comment by nailpolishblues — Thursday July 19 2007 @ 9:47 pm
yay! i throw confetti in the general direction of your thesis.
Comment by Tomás Ford — Friday July 20 2007 @ 12:12 am
Tom - thx!
Comment by Mark — Friday July 20 2007 @ 2:23 pm