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just #reminiscing about the good ole days before #melbourne was over-gentrified right out if my price range (i feel like an exile, some times)

#TheMonthly (an independent publication) has a catch-up with #SophieLee (Tracy Kerrigan in #TheCastle, Tania in #Muriel’sWedding)… i knew she retreated to a world of mohterhood and manuscripts, but it seems she’s now living in London. a link to the short article is below, if you are inteested
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reminiscing mainly cos i always thought Sophie Lee was under-rated, under-used, typecast and cursed perhaps by her looks. saw her at #LaMama one night in 1994 in a play called Tanya and Kit. i used to see lots and lots of small productions dirt cheap — even bad shows are interesting if they are live, cos there is something magical about live theatre, and maybe the small space adds to it?
anyway, Tanya and Kit was spellbinding.

Tanya and Kit by Harry Cripps, La Mama, REVIEW, 7 May 1994
THEATRE
At La Mama, until June 1994
Reviewer: Kate Herbert around 7 May 1994
This review was published in The Melbourne Times after 7 May 1994

Two women meet in an apartment and both believe they live there. They become intimates, familiars, inseparable. Harry Cripps' Pintersque script is interesting, involving and funny. It comes to life with the two actors, Sarah Chadwick and Sophie Lee who have a great rapport on stage.

Chadwick plays Tanya, a "sleek and dangerous" woman with an unspecified executive position. Her performance is masterly, her presence magnetic, her timing and delivery impeccable. Lee has a charming ingenuousness as Kit.

This is a quirky play which works on many levels although it incorporates some improbable left-field plot elements.

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themonthly.com.au/may-2025/nat

The MonthlyOur first issue’s cover star, Sophie LeeIncongruously featured on the cover of The Monthly’s first issue 20 years ago, the former actor reflects on homesickness and life in London
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Striking a balance between self-care and service to others offers a meaningful path that can heal the wounds of perceived inadequacy. Maybe, the key isn’t in measuring up to financial benchmarks, but in finding activities that bring joy, purpose, and connection to others - the real treasures that no retirement calculator can quantify.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ At least this is what my self-talk is starting to look like.

#Monterey
#Retirement
#Purpose
#SelfTalk
#Reminiscing
#PlacesLived (3/3)

The Diver. Somewhere in Romania, late ’90s. Taken with the first camera I ever bought for myself—second-hand, of course. A Nikon F-301 fitted with a broken lens stuck wide open at its maximum aperture (some non-Nikon 28-75mm). Coming from my father’s Zenit (classic combo with Helios 50mm lens), it felt like stepping into a new world. The film stock? Unknown, but given the extravagance of the purchase, it could only have been Romanian-made AZOPAN 100—less than half the price of ILFORD or KODAK. It wasn’t a bad film stock per se—just the usual issues of quality control and consistency that came with inheriting a Soviet-style approach to production.
#throwbackphoto #bnwphotography #reminiscing #filmphotography #photography #azopan #grain

When I worked at our local newspaper (managing IT), they had a delivery no-accept on weekends (no one there to drive the forklift, etc.)

Of course, the shipping companies didn't care, and palettes would be delivered on Saturdays now and again. This was a problem, as those ad inserts were major expensive advertising, and not running them would
hurt.

I worked Saturdays doing backups and maintenance stuff. For some reason the advert manager would come to me for help.

Hey, I got to play with the forklift, so, what the hell.

Of course, I was not certified to operate the thing. Insurance would have freaked out if they caught wind of it.

The irony is, I moved a couple hundred pallets overall, without incident.

The two certified operators punched holes in the side of the trailers regularly, dropped pallets scattering the inserts everywhere - forcing the crew to do manual insertion, toppled the huge rolls of blank newsprint, and
drove the forklift off the dock several times!

I miss that forklift.
:neocat_googly:

#reminiscing

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@kiwa I had an AMD duron 800 back in the day. It was our first PC bought with our own money. Just sad that our parents forced us to buy it from PC world. It was a packard bell🤮. Had pretty decent monitor attached speakers though!

I still remember a dream from forty years ago. I was seven and entering the painfully shy and awkward stage that lasted through high school. I had also started liking girls. In the dream, Billy Ocean's "Suddenly" magically played from somewhere while a group of girls chased me around the playground until my elementary school crush finally caught me, and it ended with me pretending to fend off kisses. Nothing like a good song to make a dream really stick with you.

youtu.be/vgpcEYkj0hQ?si=-Md0cs

#ThrowbackThursday
My whole life, my hair was straight as a stick. Most of my childhood, I fought constantly to keep my bangs out of my eyes.

Then, in the late 1970s, I got a perm. It lasted for several months before I let it grow out and started wearing the ponytail style I've used ever since.

I looked like a little hazel-blonde sheep.

🐑 Baaaahh....🐑

(Well, at least I have some evidence that I was actually skinny, once upon a time.)

Good morning. 🍂🍂🍂

14 March 2024

Hmmm ... wasn't I here yesterday morning doing pretty much the same thing? The problem with my timing is I start trying to write stuff when my head is still trying to wake up. It is better than plopping down in front of the TV, and it keeps me busy. I usually try to think back to the 60s and 70s and find thing unique about that era to reminisce about or talk about my dogs. I once wore bellbottom trousers, a wide collared shirt, and low platform shoes ;), when I wasn't wearing a uniform. I tried doing the hustle, but I didn't have the patience to learn how ... not the Kung Fu Hustle which is the title of a dramatic movie 😂.

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings