I finished reading True History of the Kelly Gang last night.  A bloody good adjectival book.  Only now I can’t stop saying adjectival.  It’s become my word of the week, but it only sounds good when said in some brassy, badly enuciated Australian accent, which is annoying the piss out of the people who sit around me.  But I’m sure they’ll get use to it, just like they got use to my clusterfucks and shit howdys. 

Adjectival! Adjectival! Adjectival!

But reading all this stuff about Ned Kelly made me realize how deficient my knowledge of Australian history is, so instead of working I’ve been surfing around and reading up on various Aussie factoids and events.  There is some damn good shit there.  It’s a shame they don’t teach it in school, because it’s pretty freakin’ cool, all that stuff about the founding of Botany Bay, Honest Ben Hall, the cheeky women of Hobart.  From what I’ve seen so far, Aussie history has this element of the fantastical about it, you think someone was making the shit up (and maybe they are, I have no idea), but there is such an intriguing current of defiance and triumph and tragedy.  It has all the soulful, poetic woe of the Irish, but without the hopelessness (We’re poor, Da’s drunk, I’ve got coal dust in me eye).  It’s like combining the works of the McCourt brothers with a Clint Eastwood western.  Not to say it’s not depressing as well. The tales of Van Diemen’s land and the fate of the Aborigines will bring an adjectival tear to your eye. 

*sniff*

But I hear they made a movie about Ned and the gang starring Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush.  I hope it doesn’t suck ass, because I would like to see it and I don’t want to waste my adjectival money.

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