Picnic at zoo good, although I now know two things for cer­tain: I don’t like Zydeco as a musical style and I’m pretty sure I have frac­tured my coccyx in that ham­mock fall. I know this because I over­bal­anced while sit­ting down and fell a whole…oh…two centimetres…

I was totally unex­cited about my birth­day today, except for kinda liking the sym­metry of the number 33, until my old friend Mat­thew from Sydney reminded me it’s my Hobbit Coming of Age!! Whee!!!!!! And in very Hobbit fash­ion, I made myself birth­day pan­cakes for first…

Well, that was rel­at­ively easy. My birth­day movie shall include vast quant­it­ies of vam­pire and lyc­an­thropic sil­li­ness and a kick-ass woman in skin­tight: Thursday, Janu­ary 22 10.15pm Vil­lage Crown, South­bank Hope to see at least a few people there… Shall we say meet…

Okay, I finally have ses­sion times for Under­world tomor­row but I need your input…

Another art­icle in The Age, this time about Ember Swift. Keen read­ers will recog­nise the lead from a cer­tain LJ post after seeing her early in 2003. And once again, the art­icle made a link from the front page of The Age Online. Very chuffed, I am.

I’m really annoyed with this dis­cus­sion of public schools being ‘too polit­ic­ally cor­rect and values neut­ral’. What Howard *really* means is “not Chris­tian”. The example he gave in this morn­ing’s paper of ‘too polit­ic­ally cor­rect’ was that some schools thought putting…

someone says exactly one of the things you were hoping your thesis would say? Sup­port­ing evid­ence is great; saying it better than I think I can? Annoy­ing. ”The prob­lem with jus­ti­fy­ing a polit­ics of exclu­sion with ref­er­ence to ideas and values sup­posedly shared by our…

Reminder: Yours truly, mord­wen, is fea­tur­ing at the Dan O’Con­nell in Fitzroy read­ing poesie from The Trip. Widely rumoured to be a knee-jerk reac­tion to a large cash inflow called a “redund­ancy pack­age”, mord­wen’s “Span­ish phase” was one of her more pro­duct­ive. Unlike…

Did anyone else spot Leunig’s dev­ast­at­ing com­ment on Bush’s push to col­on­ise Mars in today’s Age? They’ve still got yes­ter­day’s up at the Web site. It’s a slav­er­ing bar­bar­ian man with blood on his fangs and blood on his sword, stand­ing on mounds of skulls and razor…

So, what do whiskers *do* exactly? And do they grow back? Jeza­bel decided to invest­ig­ate a lit candle last night and it was only the smell of burn­ing hair that aler­ted me to it. She didn’t – and does­n’t – appear dis­tressed by the situ­ation at all, but her whiskers…

Good after­noon and wel­come to Mel­bourne, where the tem­per­at­ure is pleas­ant, the stereo is play­ing beau­ti­ful tunes, the miso is deli­cious, the incense is lovely (thanks, nuwishas_tail) and where a kitten will soon be again. So, here’s the week in brief: Tuesday:…