Safe and sound in sunny California

Travel is one of those lim­inal events that leads to con­tem­pla­tion out­side of the self. In the inter­sti­tial space between point A and point B any­thing is pos­sible; everything is inde­term­in­ate. You arrive at your des­tin­a­tion and life coalesces...

The people of the Book vs the people of books

I really like this post from catvin­cent on reli­gion and The Book.  And I think I have a new .sig: “Those three Peoples of the Book are at war again… All three are read­ing their Book more lit­er­ally, less meta­phor­ic­ally. The pages on...
Export permit: stamped and paid

Export permit: stamped and paid

One of the many things I did today was a trip out to Cus­toms House to pay for Jeze­bel’s export permit. They said they could­n’t stamp her pass­port with an offi­cial AQIS stamp, but they did stamp the inside page with a “quar­ant­ine mat­ters” stamp....

The begining of the end

I have just sold Als­vidir to subtle_eye (may you both scoot well) and Serendip­ity is in the shop having a ser­vice. A note for those who don’t know already: Serendip­ity will be avail­able for bor­row­ing in the Mel­bourne area and for longer-haul trips....

Ah, Howard. Crippling democracy one farce at a time.

From p_cat: HAVE YOU ENROLLED TO VOTE? From April 2007, the Howard Gov­ern­ment will be making it harder to enrol to vote. As of this date you will require numer­ous forms of ID and wit­nesses – a ”100 point” check, sim­ilar to open­ing a bank account – just to...

Go Max!!

From my fab­ulously tal­en­ted friend, xammy: Just let­ting you know that My Home, Your War will be screen­ing on SBS this Tues­day (April 3) at 8:30pm (Cut­ting Edge slot). Kylie Grey and I filmed this pro­ject in Bad­h­dad just after the US inva­sion, and...