2nd March, 2011.
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark | |
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From Museum corner, along the edge of Hyde Park and up past
Gilligans Island ... Sydney's annual Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras 'doofs' its way along Oxford Street again this Saturday night.
Now the last time I partook, alas only as a well clothed photographic observor, I had chunks kicked out of my chinny chin shins by a couple of 'fun loving' butch gals...
Yes, too be sure, alas, it is true, and whilst it is hard for me to talk about ... I concede I am but another faceless victim, a statistic amongst many of this wanton trend of unprovoked drifter bashing ... Strange Aussie Drifters (S.A.D.) are being routinely persecuted throughout this 'modern society' of ours, heinous hate crimes perpetrated daily in the Times New Roman name of mainstream boorishness, bigotry and banal boofiness.
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
When this incident is coupled a year or ten hence with the occurrence of my 'then' betrothed deciding to skip off down 'our' seemingly well sealed front path, tip toeing to a
rosy tulip upon tulip arrangement ... well, as you can imagine, it was enough to send
Nowhere into a bout of deep 'mancession'. The black dog of crudiness gnawing ravenously at shapely yet quite spindly ankles.
Thyme as they say however is the great healer, and I've cooked with the minty herb around the clock for many a long and subsequent year.
The old haemotomas have healed and the shattered relationship stuff is by now so deeply repressed it'd take a team of psychoanalysts in a
grief seeking bathysphere to retrieve the full vastness of that icky morass.
Mardi Gras - the whole shimmering flesh fest of ultra exhibitionism is kind of fun - even for the middle aged, none too pretty, hetro observor. And you know, if I can find a pair of
heavy duty shin pads before Saturday ... I might just venture out.
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
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| Mardi Gras. Early 1990s ... Photograph - Andrew Stark |
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