Aug 4&5 Review

   The weekend started the way every weekend should — by putting your ass perilously close to a stranger's face and body.

   The Rama Lotus Yoga Centre is the best place in the world to do yoga (you heard it here first, folks).

   It's an inclusive, comfortable place to practice and be still and demonstrate extreme compassion and maturity.

   After packing up and apologising profusely, I made my way to the Busker's Festival to meet Elliott. (On the way, I was propositioned by this man:

I was more offended that someone paired silver and gold in the same outfit.

   This was my first time visiting the Busker's Fest and I learned something very important; buskers are people who can't pass the criminal record check to work at the circus. (probably).

   An unbelievably charming man in tights stopped near the end of his act to tell us that buskers don't have salaries but rely very much on crowd-donations. Ten dollars would be great. Twenty dollars is better. Fifty or a hundred, whatever! But anything less than ten dollars is insulting. Don't bother with small change. He went on to remind us that he had heard laughing and, therefore, had done his job and would we do a job for free?

   Oh, certainly not, vagrant.

   This incredibly awkward and blatant requisition went on for so long that people actually started to crouch low to the pavement and sort of crab-scuttle away.

   Some time later, on our way home, we finally got to see what every person who is forced to take public-transit hopes to see...

            a bus fight.

The short one lost by way of neck-wringing but the tall one was ejected so... lose-lose, I guess.

   This is why bus-etiquette is so important. If the short one had heeded the unspoken law of exiting through the back door of the bus he never would have been strangled. Some people gotta learn the hard way.

   On the holiday Monday, I went to The Works on Bank to meet up with some friends.

There isn't even an anecdote to go with this; their burger was just so damn good.

Props to their staff for demonstrating incredible patience.