History repeating

My con­nec­tion to Belarus is even more tenu­ous than my con­nec­tion to Ukraine (grand­father, Dad’s side, born in Kiev). From what my grand­father (Mum’s side) told me before he died, his Dad was born in Orsha (Belor­us­sia) and his mum in Lutsk (Ukraine). They...

That whole bouncing back thang

Never one to let a set­back set me back very far, I spent some of Wed­nes­day work­ing on a pos­i­tion paper for a very cool pro­ject jeam­land pro­posed to me and spent this after­noon phoning vari­ous politi­cians’ offices in the hope of get­ting...

What he said

One more for good luck. From Richard King, writ­ing in The Age, com­ment­ing on Meat and Live­stock Aus­trali­a’s attempt to tell us that we must eat red meat because we evolved to eat red meat:… the advert­ise­ment tries to “pos­i­tion” red meat as a “found­a­tion...

Culture, morality, choices

It appears I chose the wrong night to stay home Wed­nes­day. Matt says Strike were amaz­ing and my cousin Vanessa says the Random Dance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was equally impress­ive. Ah well… I needed to recoup. Last night was Drum Drum from PNG,...