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Sydney and En Zed Postcard #2
🕑 Added 2026-01-12 22:31:40 +0000 UTCHello loves
Greetings from Sydney.
I’m sending my love all around the world to every one of you today. My friends in America: it really isn’t a good scene, is it. It has felt like an ongoing case of the wheels falling off the bus for a long time, now it feels like the bus is driving with no wheels, no driver, and no bus.
What to do? Pay attention, keep your head on straight, be true to your community, your friends and your family…and make art, make food, make good, make patience. As Leonard said: forget your perfect offering. Just let your flawed self show up every single day.
It was 107 degrees here the other day, and I….loved it. I am a lizard.
I know I am weird, but I thrive in the heat.
Also, the coffee in Australia is really, really good.
It’s been a second since I posted.
Deep in tour - it’s been a wild one, I’ll tell you all later - and in management meetings/work….
but taking a moment and sending a sign of life and a photo of someone’s hand-knitted pizza rat purse from the Sydney show the other night.
Thank you so so much to everybody who came - PLEASE: upload any show photos to the app chat (NZ/OZ thread) and/or if you got good shots or video, comment here and I’ll get in touch with a good place to send them.
Please keep photos from the show off socials til I’m done with the Melbourne show, just to keep things simple. I’ll holler.
I have so so much to share but it’s gonna take a sec. Large Althing coming, and a tour-wrap up….See you soon, Melbourne.
A couple posts from the socials, if you missed them….
Yeah nah yeah, they say here in Godzone. Schrödinger's World. Either absolutely everything is a profound poetic coincidence, or absolutely nothing is.
Two days in a row, boom boom like two heavy boots walking down two fragile wooden stairs, I had two of the most important twin-matching and life-altering conversations I've yet had. I'd planned neither of them, and the conversations weren't aware of one another, they could not have been.
Does it all mean something?
Does it all mean nothing?
The answer is Yes.
Doesn't matter, anyway. I'm a poet, not a scientist.
My only job is to write it all down and point it all out.
Ray. When you're on a roadtrip to uncover your past and your future and someone offers to loan you a car masquerading as a Time Machine, you say YES.
And dammit, just missed the 1,111 mark here
true that.
I love you all so much.
More soon.
XA
Comments
Phil Byers
Thank you Amanda for an incredible and emotional Melbourne show. Fleassy and Brendan were so brilliant too. Another major highlight was being reintroduced to lovely people that I met from your last Melbourne show who came up to me afterwards .. absolutely made my night complete. Love this community,. 🫶
Scott Meekins
I pray to God a rat doesn't end up on any of my pizza when I'm not paying attention.
Amanda Palmer
laura@wingedpup.com! THANK YOU DEA
Dea
Btw, I have a 38 second video of the very end of Pink Pony Club - if it's wanted (by Team AFP), where to send it, please?
Martin Fioretti
I miss Pizza Rat….😢
Steve Devitt
i love the bag ! have fun at the concerts !
Amanda Palmer
Thank you Ian. ♥️♥️♥️
Marcus
Yours is better. The original only has tomato's (or salami?) on it. Yours has a variety topping. 🙂 https://knottedneon.com/collections/patterns/products/pizza-rat-bag-crochet-pattern
Niki McQueen
Oh Em Gee! It's the rat-bag Dea made!!! That bag has at least 10 die-hard fans/worshippers in South Africa ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dea
Oh shit, also, before I forget: credit where it is due!! - the Rat Pizza Bag isn't my design. The original concept is by a designer-maker who goes by KNOTTED NEON. Some of her insane-cool designs are available for sale, as patterns. I personally only used her pattern as a guide. Bag just *might* have turned out better if I had, you know, actually followed the instructions:) But tis what it is...🙏...so long as Charlie's happy, I'm happy!
Molly McEnerney
"It has felt like an ongoing case of the wheels falling off the bus for a long time, now it feels like the bus is driving with no wheels, no driver, and no bus." Suddenly, that scene from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles takes on a new significance! https://youtu.be/0M0FfQzSngM?si=rTDKCX65QR0-uchz&t=60
Lilith N
I will be armed with four AFP hankies for the Melbourne show. ☺️💜
VTRADDICT
The Sydney show was amazing, and the venue was just perfect. The natural stone wall at the back where they had expanded the original dwelling was incredible, as was the piano, the decor, the sound... And the new songs? Phenomenal. I don't cry a lot, but you got the tears out of me. So did Brendan and so did Fleassy. Anyone who is on the fence about Melbourne, don't be. Get a ticket, go along, bring tissues. I would seriously consider flying down if I could. Amanda - I love you, and I genuinely consider you as a friend. I've known you longer than I have known my wife and longer than I have known my best friend, and I always love getting to see you and catch up, even if it's only brief. With everything going on, I can promise you will always have a friendly face and a hug waiting for you in Sydney, and an open invitation to come and visit.
