My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime: 1: It doesn't matter. 2: It does matter. 3: That's it! I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!

My three favourite philosophical phrases I'm trying to perfect in my reasonably brief lifetime:
1: It doesn't matter.
2: It does matter.
3: That's it!
I think that if you can get a good handle on those 3, well, that's it!

Australia Poem

AUSTRALIA 2017

Girt by Sea

this island made

in fact for me

and not for those who were

nor for those who'll be...

this nation,

girt entirely

by me

in my surplus

obese

entirety.

The worried well are worried and well now none of us are going to hell and so they teach their kids their truth and seek for sooth, for sooth, for sooth. The worry-less world it rolls along an occasional punch, an occasional song and thus defines this best address ah, welcome home, forgive the mess.

OPTION ONE: I think basically that the separated whole of Korea does need to be whole again, as countries do seem to need to be whole again, and it can only be whole when other countries leave it alone to work out its issues. OPTION TWO: The next best alternative is for the North to be subsumed into China as a province. At least this would deal with the poverty issues of the North...and set that new Province on the China industrial road to a much better life. These people are, in fact, Manchurian anyway. The whole North of China, Korea, and even parts of Russia, are Manchurian. Maybe it is about time the Manchurians took control of their own nuclear weapons, wealth, and massive resources...and looked at Japan, seriously, and with due prejudice to right old wrongs in the North of Asia.

"If North Korea was attacked by the US, then China and Russia would both be in Pyongyang well before the American troops could be there...and then there would be a massive almighty world war fist fuck for control of the most strategically and economically important place on earth......and no one wants that...so Kim Jong Un is a far better alternative. Any solution must not involve Japan, a country most hated by both North and South Koreans en masse, and for good reason".

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RESTAURANT REVIEW/AUSTRALIA/MELBOURNE/KEW/THE GRILL ON THE HILL

Restaurant Review: Kew, Melbourne, The Grill on the Hill

The Difficulty with Reviewing The Grill on the Hill at Kew is that it is both very good and also very horrible.
The food is brilliant and yet the cost is ridiculous.
The 20 or so page extensive wine list made for interesting reading of just how many bottles of wine there are between hundred dollars a bottle and eight hundred dollars a bottle, and that was fun...passing it back to the waiter saying "we don't usually drink at all, so just a glass of your house red."
The response: "Two glasses sir?"
"No, just the one."
"Oh, well, I will see what i can find..."
[Image of him going out to the alley and beating up some old bloke and stealing his flagon of plonk...]
...but the house red was okay.
Altogether, the cost/benefit equation just didn't work at the Grill on the Hill. There was an all pervasive sense of the narcissistic anally retentive menace that people oddly call professionalism these days, but, in fact, it wasn't professional, just rather overall menacing with an obvious and hard $ profit/person equation being the only standard the place has. 
Two simple entrees, 2 simple meals, and very good food it was, to be sure...some free bread, one glass of house red, two glasses of tap water, and the cost was AU$175. Great food, indeed, and yet, at an dreadful overall cost.
The waitress was kind enough to point out to me that I could add a tip to my credit card bill. I thanked her for so clearly pointing this out to me but said that it wouldn't be necessary.
On the way out the bullish manager was there at the door intent on shaking my hand, but I refused fearing I might lose my watch.
Would I go again? Absolutely not.
On the Fitzpatrick World Food=Value Fine Dining Equation Graph, where A McDonalds Cheese Burger scores zero out of a possible 5 stars, as the base standard....The Grill on The Hill, whilst having great food indeed, scores a minus 4.
I was particularly fascinated by the rampant generosity in the amount of the complimentary bread in the 4th picture.
SCORE: THE GRILL ON THE HILL: MINUS 4 🍽️🍽️🍽️

Looking around for small houses to buy in Melbourne...a nice little 3 bedroom 1 bathroom narrow house in Collingwood for only a million dollars and in a street obviously filled with...street artists...in walking distance of Churches, cafes, crack houses and a very respectable heroin dealer. Maybe best for a young family with little ones I think...but I like the olde world charm of it.