...there was wind too. Wind-driven rain. Rainy wind. Even Gollum would find it bleak I imagine. I walked through quite a lot of it to get to the Gallery where we were meeting the photographer. So the answer is: quite a lot.

As Roughey from unrealisticexpectations.com might say: stupid photographer. Stupid daily newspaper with audience of millions. Stupid me for expecting not to be rejected, disappointed and in fact humiliated. Fark.

"I am convinced that the Babylon of the Apocalypse does not apply to Rome exclusively; but to the union of Religion with Power and Wealth, wherever it is found."
S T Coleridge, note to 'Religious Musings', 1797

No wonder Andy Serkis is looking like he's just won the lotto in his publicity photos lately. All that work he did for the Gollum CGI character for Lord of the Rings, all the time knowing that no one would actually be seeing his face when Gollum hit the screens, and probably expecting total lack of recognition for all his lurking, grovelling, hand wringing, starving and thirsting in the wastelands of Mordor. But hey, post the release of The Two Towers, Andy Serkis is going off! Everyone loved Go

Last Sunday, in what is hopefully not a prelude to any possible coming apocalypse, one of the two main newspapers here in Sydney shrieked "800 MISSILES IN 48 HOURS", which apparently is what the US plans to do to Baghdad in the first two days of their planned attack. Inside this paper ("gutter-rag") (thanks pam b) there were quotes from the US military saying that during this attack, there will be no safe place in Baghdad, and that they plan for the effect to be like the nuking of Hiroshima.

I saw the film Donnie Darko the other night. Donnie, who may be schizophrenic, is also a sleepwalker and is wandering around outside one night when a plane engine crashes into his room. At the time, Donnie was meeting up with his imaginary friend, Frank, who wears a scary bunny mask. So Donnie has escaped death, but Frank has just been telling him that the world will be coming to an end in approximately four weeks.

So now that it's been established that everyone we currently know of who's in control of nukes is either an idiot or insane (I know it's not exactly news), I've been thinking about the possible coming apocalypse.

I've been thinking that if there really is an apocalypse coming, it may be a lot less interesting then we thought. I mean, if it's anything like boring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman in the Sum of all Fears - bland bland bland.