Babiy Yar

Now I know how 100,000 bodies look Buried in soft ground; or at least I know their shape, How much land they fill. I know that grass Grows greener with humans as fertiliser. I am haunted by the curve of souls, the twist of necks...

Pissed off

That was the shit­ti­est gig ever. Thank you to the hand­ful of people who showed: sleazemon­key, nuwishas_tail, drjon, mireille21, thunderfoot23, why_lederhosen, anachronoclast. The pro­jector they assured me would be there wasn’t there. I checked with them on...

Busy, busy, busy

No time to write, really, but feel like I must or I will lose the three thou­sand things on my mind. Furi­ous about the grow­ing homo­pho­bia in this coun­try. I may think state-registered mar­riage is a het­ero­pat­ri­archal con­struct...

Poetry gigs! Come see, come see!

So, I’m doing two poetry gigs this week: GIG 1: “The boys will learn”, 6pm, FRIDAY AUGUST 13: Cape Lounge, Cnr Brun­swick & John­ston Sts, Fitzroy Gab­ri­elle Ever­all (W.A), Ros­anne Ber­sten, Justin Ash­worth, Mark Lev­is­ton, Ken Smeaton. (Mostly my...

What did you do before the Internet existed, Mum?

A long, long time ago, before the Net came to Aus­tralia (well, before AARNet, anyway), sad geeks had no e‑mail and no chat rooms to hang around in. What on earth did they do? They had pen­friends. I know: I had 30 pen­friends when I was 15, from all...

What the fuck????

[ganked from patchworkkid] Prozac found in Bri­tain’s drink­ing water. Appar­ently, Prozac has now been so over-pre­scribed, it’s leach­ing into groundwater. If you’re not scared enough by this idea, you should read some of the reports over at Prozac Spot­light about...