Angels and cowboys

by | Mar 12, 2006 | Uncategorized

Last night, crystal_storm and I went to a ses­sion of MQFF and watched the boys’ short films. As a whole it was good: the first few films were the usual fare, nar­rat­ives of first love and teen crushes, of older man meets younger man, of older...

Harmony Day

by | Mar 11, 2006 | Uncategorized

March 21 is har­mony day… It’s an ini­ti­at­ive of DIMIA, as far as I can tell, which is a little ironic and coun­ter­in­tu­it­ive, but whatever… I’m plan­ning to go to the Black Har­mony gath­er­ing at Fair­field Amphi­theatre on March 19, next Sunday,...

SBS: The torturer’s tale

by | Mar 9, 2006 | Uncategorized

Anyone catch Dateline on SBS last night? If not, you can check out the tor­rent here. It’s quite com­pel­ling stuff: inter­views with the sol­diers who com­mit­ted the tor­ture at Abu Ghraib. SBS inter­views two former guards there, and (former) Lt. Gen­eral...