I am so dis­il­lu­sioned and frus­trated at the moment. I can’t believe the Israelis thought killing a para­ple­gic spir­itual leader was going to help the peace pro­cess. I can’t believe I live in a coun­try where our PM thinks it’s com­pletely okay to tell the police…

It’s 2pm. That means dai­syn­erd just got on a plane to go live in Hol­land with her won­der­ful part­ner, Niels. She’s been my best friend for the last five years or so, since I moved down here, and I’m torn between being so happy that my friend has found her love and so…

I hate the fact it’s all about the sur­face, but Lind­say Tanner (Oppos­i­tion Com­mu­nic­a­tions Spokes­per­son, used to be a journo) is debat­ing Ross Cameron (Fed­eral Par­lia­ment­ary Sec­ret­ary). I’m not a huge Labour fan, but they’re better than the god­damn Libs. Cameron,…

I was going to rant at you all about how amaz­ing Tariq Ali was, speak­ing in Sydney about Res­ist­ance and Empire (I snuck out to see him between my sis­ter’s wed­ding and the recep­tion) but this cold has filled my head with stuffy stuff. Anyhow, it’s going to be broadcast…

What an abso­lutely awe­some night to follow a great day. It star­ted out with head­ing down to the Inter­na­tional Women’s Day March, where I ran into my old friend Shab­nam who I’d com­pletely lost touch with. Shab­nam is smart, sassy, sexy, polit­ical. In short, all the…

Laurent is stand­ing shirt­less, veins on his neck raised, muscles taut in his throat, sweat pour­ing off him, the red five poin­ted star tat­tooed on his right breast filmed with a light sheen. His entire body is motion. He is coiled. He jumps and his legs scis­sor the air…

The SMH picked up my story as the top tech­no­logy story for the day. Guess it ain’t as bad as I thought it was… Well, that’s not quite true. It *was* that bad, accord­ing to the editor. It’s been heav­ily edited. And I still don’t like some of the edit. They’ve taken…

that I love the fact that there are 44 (mostly) ser­i­ous responses to spir­it­ro­ver’s request for ‘crest­ing the rim of a crater’ music? It’s really one of the cleverest LJs I’ve seen.

My review of Earth­core here although it reads very straight­for­ward and non-gushy. I was very tired when I got home… Also, my two pars made it into this story which was also on page three of yes­ter­day’s print edi­tion. That’s my second highest billing so far (the…

Trying to find LJ com­munit­ies of interest for the thesis. Did a search on ‘queer’. Among others, found – glbt chris­tian fur­ries, appar­ently. Takes all types.

Sydney folk! Les Hur­le­ments d’Leo are coming to a Gaelic Club near you, Friday March 12 (next week!). Thanks to the other sister get­ting mar­ried, I shall be there (whoo hoo!). Who wants to come? Also, Mel­bourne kids, who is going to Earth­core in the Park on Monday?…

Les Hur­le­ments were superb again last night. The sound system is much better at the Corner, but it was less intim­ate. The Age rejec­ted my review of them though, so you get to read it instead. It’s actu­ally not a bril­liantly writ­ten piece, so bear with me. Les…