Music and magic

Thursday night I dropped by the Sten­cil Fest­ival Open­ing night (and wrote up a story for {ariel flux}). Friday night I dropped down to Café Quince down the road from my new place to listen to Phil Car­roll and Ernie Gruner play tunes from all over...

I’m so lucky

Just saw the new TAC ad. It reminds me very graph­ic­ally of my acci­dent in August and makes me envis­age only too well some­thing that happened to journey2master many years ago. I am so grate­ful that I only have minor back...

Women and the art of motorscooter maintenance

Two gold stars to the woman who stopped to help me jump­start the new bike this morn­ing (I think its name is Als­vidir, thanks to _snowrose_).  Unfor­tu­nately, she loses a star again for saying “maybe you should wait for a guy” when she could­n’t open...

Space and phrases

Before I spend too much more time on some­thing that may not be working… Is this (Word­Press) better than this (my old site) as a way of nav­ig­at­ing my poetry?  Ignore the design for now… I never was a great designer and I can...

LiveJournal, journallers, bloggers and more

[Note: this is a repost as you can’t edit a post with a poll in it.] A child­hood friend of mine, Mark, found my journal many months ago and then joined up, becom­ing bourdieu_boy. Then he found that what he wanted to do with the journal didn’t...

Indigenous pain

I’m pretty shocked by what I’m hear­ing on Lateline right now. The reports this morn­ing about sexual abuse in remote com­munit­ies up north were pretty bad. Com­bine that with this attack on a woman – pour­ing petrol on her and set­ting her alight – and the...