Portland

There's a great little piece in Crikey today, where Guy Rundle's in Portland. He describes a coffee shop:

"...the clientele it does have are standard issue Pac-Northwest, like a meeting of plaintiffs for a class action against a particularly inept tattooist.."

You can guess, of course, that I love this.

Tuxedo

There was a piece in one of the weekend papers about a shooting in Melbourne one Monday morning, and they described the gunman's attire as being a nice new adidas tracksuit, the one with the stripe on the top and the three stripes on the pants. Or, as the journalist described memorably described it, a "bogan tuxedo".

As luck would have it, I was at Luna Park yesterday (in Melbourne) and as I was lining up to get a coffee, the guy in line in front of me was wearing the exact outfit! I surreptitiously took a photo.

He also had a soul patch!

Kiwi

I heard a New Zealander, a colleague, use the words "less pessimistic" today. I couldn't even begin to write it down the way he said it; you can imagine it for yourselves.