Illegal t-shirts

Wearing any of the 300 odd t-shirts listed for sale on This Website in Sydney over the next couple of weeks could get one arrested…..It’s a bit frightening that these laws coincide with the visit of His Malevolence Benny boy who apparently was a member of the Nazi Youth as a youngster…

Life-long love…

…is it a reality?

So anyway, lots of people I know have been breaking up recently. In fact among my circle of friends and acquaintances, this breaking up bizzo has been going on for a few years. The gays are doing it, the straights are doing it…everyone is breaking up! Of the couples I knew when baba and I first started courting, off the top of my head, I can only think of one that’s still together. (Ms L and the Welshman, take a bow). By law of my straw poll averages, couples that get married are just as likely to break up as those who don’t. The ones who aren’t strictly monogamous seem to fare a bit better than those who are (or at least claim to be. There’s something to be said for distancing Judeo-Christian “morality” from issues of the heart – and the pelvis). Recent statistics say that the average Australian marriage lasts 9 years; hardly a lifetime! And of those who do make it as far as dribbling through dementia together, I wonder how many are still genuinely in love.

Baba and I are still plodding along and dare I say, still in love 7 years down the track. I can’t think of anything right now that is likely to cause us to want to break up. It’s all just too lovely and comfortable. Routine? Yes. Exciting? Not particularly. Deep? Yes. Genuine? Yes.

No one can tell what the future holds. Baba could up and walk out on me tomorrow with a rich, dashingly handsome replacement – or I could do the same. Love is like that. The human heart is fickle. I hope not though in our case. We often talk of growing old together and I’d say that there’s a fairly strong chance that will happen. I find it very hard to imagine anyone else that I could connect with on as many levels as I connect with baba.

…having said all that, baba did remind me last night of that Indian fortune teller who soothsayed that I’d have three wives…

Pope business…

…is just getting silly now. New laws were passed in NSW yesterday permitting police to strip search and issue $5500 fines to anyone interrupting or causing annoyance to the catholic “pilgrims” who are starting to converge on Sydney for their bout of mutual masterbation and kiddy fiddling. Among activities specifically outlawed are wearing “offensive” T-shirts and handing condoms to Catholics.

bah humbug. thank mother mary that baba and i are flying down to taswegia for the days that this whole circus climaxes.