Friday 12 January, 2007
power complaint
Endless articles are written on the virtues of Sydney vs. Melbourne and I won't get into that here. But if we're going to compare NSW to Victoria there is one advantage to NSW which is, in my books, a major one. There are no signs along the highways telling you to take a Powernap. I cannot tell you how much I hate the phrase. What the fuck is a powernap? It's marketing namby pamby bullshit, that's what. I've been powernap free for 11 days now, and loving it.
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