past Sunshine

How many syllables in Koroit?

Pivotal: Fraser rolls his ankle

https://youtu.be/-gzahszqZEg?t=3402
The above link goes to the video-recorded moment just before the half-time siren of the 2006 elimination final (St Kilda versus Melbourne) where Fraser Gehrig marks on the lead, pivots, takes on the man on the mark, misjudges, gets tackled and rolls his ankle, whereupon Melbourne win and Grant Thomas quits.

More about the man on the mark, Nathan Carroll:

from Foxsports.com.au:

DISCARDED Melbourne defender Nathan Carroll has launched his last-ditch bid for a place on St Kilda's list for season 2009.

Carroll, dumped by the Demons after a series of alcohol-related off-field incidents, looked an angelic new face among the Saints players as they reported in for pre-season training on Monday.

from the Herald Sun:
FORMER AFL player Nathan Carroll was psychotic when he bashed two men during a wild rampage, a court has heard.

The court heard Carroll has spent the last month in rehab and plans to continue his treatment when he returns to work in the mines.

Recipe for whipped cream

By the way, in the Momofuku cookbook, the first cookbook I've read with liberal sprinklings of fuck and shit, there's a recipe for whipped cream.

tongue twister for the day

Delores the florist in the Florence forest.

Fact update - Mogador

Mogador, the internet reveals, is the former name of Essaouira, fortress island off Morocco not a town in Hungary as I previously guessed; it is also an island not far from the former citadel of Mogador, where falcons capture their prey and store them for laters as spiders do their bugs and crocodiles their carrion.

Troll fishing

or trawling

takes troll bait
baits trolls take?

you sure you want?
no meal they make

but throw it back?

leave on bank
keep for bait

like honey flies
or ants ants
trolls draw trolls

but how to get
the nibble?

greatest hits and so so ones

A measure of best ofs and the very best ofs is the amplitude of taper towards the end of the CD. Cover versions, remixes. Happy Mondays' Greatest Hits is the benchmark (and should've been released as a cassingle). The Beach Boys' 'Made in the USA' is going fine until four fifths through it hits a cover. After that the hits, from somewhere in the late 70s, aren't that familiar and the peachy beachy feeling flees. That's the taper. Granted, every Beach Boys song is, in itself, a cover - these songs have been heard so often they've become covers of themselves. The Beach Boys could just as well be the Beachy Boys, nay the original Beachy Boys.

After the less familiar tunes of 'Made in the USA' come songs famous bands put out when they've long done their dash that they hope 'fans' will buy because they've been recorded by a famous band they thought they liked, to wit Rock to the Rescue. Often these songs are covers. Excepting Happy Mondays' number, they're always at the end of the album, filling out that extra half hour the good inventor of the CD created so he could play Beethoven's nth symphony the whole way through without having to get out of his leather recliner to flip sides. Finally come the bonus tracks. I think I love Lee Remick is the best song on the Go Betweens best of. Unfortunately, 'Made in the USA' has no Kokomo.