Fans and fandom

I just inter­viewed Neil Gaiman. It was one of those things where I was offered the inter­view and then went out to pitch it to someone, came back with a com­mis­sion to do an entirely dif­fer­ent story from the one I pitched (a sub-cul­tures story for...

No, we don’t kill civilians…

Appar­ently, UN ‘peace­keep­ers’ have mas­sacred 23 people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. On July 6th, more than 300 heav­ily armed UN troops car­ried out a full-blown mil­it­ary attack on a densely-pop­u­lated sec­tion of Port-au-Prince. Mul­tiple sources...

Will wonders never cease?

Howard apo­lo­gies to Rau and Solon over wrong­ful detention. And he’s making changes to the staff in the Depart­ment. Van­stone’s keep­ing her job and of course, she’s said this has noth­ing to do with Aus­trali­a’s policy on asylum seekers. Of course not. These...

Folks are dumb

Assor­ted clips from Fox News in response to the bomb­ings in London. I’m not sure if I’m more hor­ri­fied by the guy who says his first thought was “time to buy” on the stock­mar­ket or the com­ment­at­ors who express dis­gust that global warm­ing and African aid...

Today’s political news…

1. Five arres­ted at Queer Col­lab­or­a­tions protest in Perth [1 | 2]. I’ve been read­ing the first-hand state­ments some of the people there have made for the police and it sounds pretty heavy handed. So much for the free­dom to asso­ci­ate! [nb: this post has been...