Looks Like The World is in For Another Bad Sequel/Romance? 🌍🌎🌏🤡💘

Maybe Gaga could sing a duet with America's favourite clown?-)

Joker: Folie à Deux ... The Joke is on You and Me Dear Cinema Goer ... If You Went to See This Film for Entertainment? 🎥🎤🤡🎬

Crazy Clown Time and Trump's Shock Doctrine?

Throw Another Barbie on the Barbie?

Burger King/Hungry Jacks ... and Would You like Fries with That?🫅🍔🍟👑🤡

The Quincy Jones Biography is Now Complete?📚

What's the Best Street Library to Place a Biography About a Member of the Foo Fighters in?🥊📖📚

Dave Grohl's book was the second book that I have found in the donations of a thrift shop that has featured in a 'Thrift Shop Biography' podcast so far -

Synching Like a Rolling Stone?

I bought the book at a thrift shop price, skimmed through it, and then decided to donate the book to a street library, as my son was driving around the suburbs giving away all of his Stephen King books to various street libraries -
King of the Street Libraries?💀♔📚♚👻

We had no idea what half of these street libraries looked like until we arrived after following the map on the street libraires site and we had thought someone was pulling our chain trying to tell us that there was a street library in an Underwood industrial area where nobody lived.

Turns out the street library was on a wall outside a Wing Chun Kung Fu school:-)

And I thought what better street library could I find to leave a book about the lead singer of a band called the 'Foo Fighters':-P 

Dave Grohl ... The Storyteller?🎤📖✍🎸👶

We even went and ordered Chinese for dinner that night, which we had planned on doing even before stumbling across this street library on a Kung Fu school wall.

Don't worry, I didn't order the fish:-)

I still have a Spare Book to give away after I get round to reading it:-)

Thrift Shop Biography Podcast?🎤✍📕

Remember, Remember ... to Bet Responsibly on Melbourne Cup Day?🐴🏆🏇🤑💰💸

The Melbourne Cup is run on the first Tuesday in November, which just happens to be the 5th of November this year:-)

I haven't had a win on The Cup since 2018 when Cross Counter won -

Picking a Winner?

And this year I've wacked $50 on the nose of ABSURDE at 10-1.

I was going to back SEA KING but backed down at the last minute because of the British female jockey riding it.

King of the Street Libraries?💀♔📚♚👻

A penguin eating chicken, how ABSURDE:-)

Trust the New Zealanders to have ABSURDE chip mascots;-)

I guess I'll find out in less than an hour if that was an ABSURDE bet or not.

UPDATE: November 5th, 2024

Looks like only the bookies won today:-(

Not all was lost, as I can flip my losing ticket over and use it as a $50 post it note:-)

And it was a horse from my home Australian state of Queensland that won the race, too:-(

And what really pisses me off is that as soon as I had placed my bet the "universe" starts throwing synchs my way about #11.

Jockey Robbie Dolan is 'dreaming'
 after a Cup win

And that f#ckin' UFO that Dolan was riding.

"Knight’s Choice was a bargain buy for just $85,000 for Laxon and her Sunshine Coast operation. It has turned out to be the best investment Australian racing has seen for some time.
The five-year-old gelding was considered an $81 long-shot with bookmakers with his victory one of the biggest boil overs seen in recent years.
It was also the first time Queensland-based Irish jockey Dolan was racing in the Cup.
“Pinch me. I’m dreaming,” he said after the race."

TOE of the UFO?🛸 👽👾👀

RBA holds rates steady at 4.35 per cent

And like I say, most Australians lost today, as the RBA have put a hold on interest rates.