http://3z3r0.net/troyl The Other White Meat Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:23:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/12/20/surf-wars/ http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/12/20/surf-wars/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2005 05:40:09 +0000 Disappearing Boy http://www.petermolak.com/blog/main/?p=119 my two cents worth on Sydney's current ongoing beachside turf wars / race-riots. Strap yourselves in - this ain't gonna be a 'light and airy' post ! First though, for those of you unfamiliar with the DB story, I should give you a bit of background so you'll have to proper context to put my forthcoming rant in. I was born in 1977 in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Both my parents are also Czech, and we emmigrated to Australia in 1984 after living in Pakistan for 6 years where my dad was a trade attache to the Czech embassy. 'Emmigrated' is not quiet the right word though of course, since back then the world was still in the grips of the tail-end of the 'cold war', and (then) Czechslovakia was one of the 'iron curtain' Communist countries. So in actual fact, my parents didn't simply emmigrate with me, they 'defected to the West' - with all the attendant hush-hush secrecy that implies. Since then, I've spent most of my life living in Australia - and indeed I feel 'Aussie' - as much as anyone born here. Indeed, I have the citizenship and passport papers to prove it. I also happen to possess a Czech passport however, and I'm as equally proud of my Czech heritage as I am of being Australian. Personally, I never thought the two were mutually exclusive.]]> http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/12/20/surf-wars/feed/ 6 http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/10/11/dbs-latest-obsession/ http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/10/11/dbs-latest-obsession/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:40:03 +0000 Disappearing Boy http://www.petermolak.com/blog/main/?p=112 http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/10/11/dbs-latest-obsession/feed/ 3 http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/09/12/bondi-bonding/ http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/09/12/bondi-bonding/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:32:39 +0000 Disappearing Boy http://www.petermolak.com/Blog/Main/?p=108 excellent frikkin flatmate, let me tell you ! ]]> http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/09/12/bondi-bonding/feed/ 8 http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/04/18/the-beach-is-calling/ http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/04/18/the-beach-is-calling/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Disappearing Boy http://petermolak.com/Blog/?p=65 best friend wrote a rant called "Declining the Beach Invitation". It resonated deeply at the time - I was a beach-shunning goth, and she was a beach-shunning indie-chick. In the last few weeks, the beach (and my relationship to it) has come up in a few discussions with my girlfriend, and on Friday Wegg started an interesting thread on her blog ('Ocean Girl Goes to The Mountains') about the beach, your proximity to it, and the art hanging on your walls. All of which has led me to ponder the beach, and what it means to me. ]]> http://3z3r0.net/troyl/2005/04/18/the-beach-is-calling/feed/ 15