Recent musings

So much to tell…  In Sydney, xammy talked again of Spain… what was a vague plan for a few of us to move to Bar­celona has now become a vision of eight Aus­tralian film-makers, some of them quite well known, and me, living in a wild...

Happy birthday, Indymedia

Five years ago I atten­ded a smallish demon­stra­tion called N30 for Novem­ber 30. It was timed to coin­cide with the WTO meet­ing in Seattle, and I figured it would be a little bigger than the J18 global day of action we’d had in June, but wasn’t...

Mystic Medusa strikes again

My mother once again sent me a scar­ily accur­ate horoscope: Out­rageous yearn­ings vs secur­ity con­cerns – or is it just that you need a spare $100,000 or so to fulfil the latest genius? Wel­come to the week of a whacked-out full moon squared by...

Journalistic instincts…

On our way out of earth­core, I did what I always do as a journo… I stopped to ask the ambos how the week­end had gone. I got the tan­tal­ising tidbit that they’d “lost one”. Dead? Not sure, they said. He was missing. Now, if I was still...