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Hanging around the pool listening to the banana Republic witj my tribe and my friends on SDF /com
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (~110 pages)
Passing by Nella Larsen (~120 pages)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (~100 pages)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (~120 pages)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (~110 pages)
The Stranger by Albert Camus (~120 pages)
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (~130 pages)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (~120 pages)
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (~120 pages)
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (~140 pages)
@rat 🌞 trying to do less visual and more reading since visual media has so much bloat now that is quicker to simply read.
Truman Capote called Holly a “composite” of women he’d met, not a single person, she was less a literal portrait and more his idealised vision of a certain type, someone chasing freedom but haunted by their past.
Possibly Gloria Vanderbilt, a glamorous heiress with a free spirit, Oona O’Neill, Charlie Chaplin’s wife, known for her beauty and elusive persona and socialites like Babe Paley and Slim Keith, who mixed elegance with complicated personal lives.
The Great Gatsby masks a profound spiritual emptiness, where characters like Tom and Daisy drift through their privileged lives untouched by purpose, while Gatsby’s lavish displays conceal a lonely soul yearning for meaning beyond wealth.
I hope you enjoyed the Banana Republic show today and I’m sorry, I couldn’t be there with you because I was at the beach and did quite a long walk using the day as best I can. (Besides forgetting my MacBook at home.)
Friday makes it a nice long weekend. Hopefully you’ve noticed my shows have improved a somewhat. 🍌
Tune in to Roly’s Republic in a few minutes at 0000 UTC on Friday. I line up some carefully curated music. along the lines of La Bionda and Stereo, Total.
Stoke sauce returns home for the weekend all his friends arrive from everywhere, early morning and everyone still sleeping
We began to subscribe to rules that were not our own.
We began to accept new words and names for objects, attitudes and emotions which were completely void of meaning
We began to blend in, to fit in, to avoid conflict and to comply with these new unwritten rules.
… and finally we began to use and include these empty words in valueless arguments, discussions and debates …
… in summary … we were morally and intellectually too poor to pay the cost for free speech.
Roly’s Radio aka The Banana Republic - I thought the future would be cooler! at 0000 UTC on Friday on https://anonradio.net
We all just say hi to each other here, as a courtesy and greeting, for camaraderie, for patronage.
The tragedy of Vaudeville is that so little of it remains.
Thanks for listening to the banana republic today. It was really nice doing the show. I focused on selecting good wholesome tunes It was also very pleasant to be in COM again.
Me my sidekick work buddy trying to find the Arctic Wolf event in Brisbane while listening to the Banana Republic
A fun relaxing read. I was there -Alan Edwards
Modern coffee makers are feature-rich disasters, they break in two years because complexity invites failure.
Let's instead build a future for them and ourselves, weaving roosts, green roofs, bat boxes, and open rafters into our homes and habitats.
This is not a halt to human progress; it merely a reminder that we are caretakers and stewards, not thieves, robbers and takers.
The Genesis story instructs us to tend the earth and its creatures. Yet our urban developments have consumed forests, wetlands, and grasslands, leaving birds, bats, and nature scrambling for shelter.
Still unsatisfied, we persecute them further by embedding deterrents, bird spikes and wires on and in our buildings, not merely usurping their homes but denying refuge and shelter amid Cyclone Alfred.
I love it when the bottom of my garden floods
Siri is a glorified voice calculator, good enough for setting timers or asking very simple questions. Siri trained to sound clever but Apple failed to make it smart like Grok. Compared to what’s out there it’s a “paperclip” relic with a fancy accent.
There is a big difference between safety and revenue generation. If they stop you and warn you about the insurance of wearing a helmet, that would be safety, writing up a fine would be revenue generation. Maybe three warnings and then a ticket might be a middle ground? 🙂
Hey @publius I received your letter today! I went to my P.O. Box today expecting a letter from @stokesauce and hey hey there was one from the Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Thank you for the wonderful moon landing and nuclear/atomic stamps and fun stickers, Much Appreciated and wind regards Roly + tribe
(Stokesauce is up from Sydney for his birthday).
#SDF @SDF #anonradio
All is well in the land down under! ⚡️🌩️ Your host and benevolent dictator will be back to continue the Banana Republic soon enough. 🍌🍌
Problems we already know how to solve.
State Sponsored Australian News.
We desperately need a way to correlate with politicians say and compare that to what they do.
Thanks for listening to another episode of Banana Republic today.
I hope you’re all enjoying yourself and doing the things you enjoy doing.
Here’s one of my small pleasures .
A very Merry Christmas to all the very fine people on #SDF
I’d like to thank you all for the year gone by and for the opportunity to have a virtual third place, a third space separate from home and work.
I like the interesting and varied people that gather here and I encourage you to keep being different and to pursue those interests that are so far flung from the mainstream.
For those interested, were holiday’ing at a Lake House in Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia.
Enjoying a very windy view family are down on the beach. Catherine got stung by blue bottle has returned home to the lakeside to soak in a hot bath and I’m just sitting here letting the day drift past.
Reading The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg,
TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN
Paradoxically, the same mind that holds such control over the body is also woefully fragile and prone to superstitious thoughts. It fills easily with doubt and is distracted by ancillary details. This is why the tape must always be perfect, the machine silent, the kit spotless. And, if you draw the unlucky Number 13, turn it upside down to coun teract its negative energy.
The Rules - The way of the cycling disciple by Velominati @ffog
TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN
Paradoxically, the same mind that holds such control over the body is also woefully fragile and prone to superstitious thoughts. It fills easily with doubt and is distracted by ancillary details. This is why the tape must always be perfect, the machine silent, the kit spotless. And, if you draw the unlucky Number 13, turn it upside down to coun teract its negative energy.
The Rules - The way of the cycling disciple by Velominati @ffog
@roly relaxing in the tub 🛁
Publius, sinuses ❌ headache ❌life journey ✅ odd voice ✅ historical updates. Shurping 👍 comfortable pauses 👍#sdf 👍 clickety-clack typewriter ⌨️
Roly allows the Banana Republic descend into rack and ruin while he languishes undaunted at Betty’s Burgers.
Catherine and the Emperor of the Banana Republic after a 5km Park Run (Roly Ran, Catherine walked explainin the sneakers) Roly did 30 minutes 30 seconds for 5 Km run in the Austalian heat, but has got to get it to to 29 or 28 minutes for 5 km. Lovely swim in the ocean and a very fun day with Catherine joining the Dictator during his musings and meandering.
Thankful for all the good things I enjoy up here on the Sunshine Coast.
That huge mount is a bush turkey nest.
If you enjoy the Banana Republic feel free to join me today for a fun chat and "interviews" and a bit of music 2024 09 21 @ 2030 UTC
Places to go. Things to do. 9:56am and the day is still young. There are beach homes around Yarromba, that have my name on them, just need to find them.
Listening to ffog tob and publius some fun lazy listening this early morning
Listening to @froggyme live while driving to Noosa. 🚗 🐸 #Sdf Stokesauce is in the laughing at froggies rapping #Freeform #anonradio
Laying down SAX in his studio @stokesauce
Building a BOMA, the fire will be in approximately at the centre where the star pickett is.
A boma is a livestock enclosure, community enclosure, stockade, corral, small fort or a district government office, commonly used in many parts of the African Great Lakes region, as well as Central and Southern Africa. It is particularly associated with community decision making.
The Banana Republic will finally have a House of Parliament.
I hear that S T O K E S A U C E is on tomorrow @ 0000 UTC on every Tuesday
http://anonradio.net/
http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio
#Freeform #Radio #SDF
