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A portmanteau. A treasure trove. A time capsule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memories. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsuspecting public. An intimate confession to close friends. A declaration of intent. A whisper of love. A personal record. An experiment in introspection. A performance space. A political rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us publish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.Protected: The waiting game
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Protected: Tail end of a cyclone
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Protected: Is the Daddy ready?
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Safe home
Just in case my sudden silence hadn’t made it obvious, Doug is home from New Zealand with a provisional resident visa firmly lodged in his passport. He brought back a cold from the plane and then gave it to me (bad Doug!) but we’re getting better now. He’s much calmer…
Protected: Progress report
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No borders, no nations
My faithful iCal has reminded me that at 2pm today, Sunday 16th of March, the Palm Sunday Peace Rally will take place starting from the State Library in Melbourne. A good time to pull out the new “make coffee, not war” T‑shirt from the little coffee shop that could.…
Hey, a meme I actually like!
From badgerbag:Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and I’ll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie…
Doug update
Doug visited the Australian embassy in Auckland today and they placed a peach-coloured sticker in his passport which will be “activated” as a visa when he re-enters the country next Tuesday. Yay!Now that he’s got all the official stuff out of the way, he’s off to the…
Phwoar! Talk nerdy to me!
Via drjon…It’s in response to this, but theresponse is so much hotter I wouldn’t bother watching the tragic original.And she speaks Elvish! A few years ago, I would’ve been hunting for her contact details pronto.
Protected: So, you wanna be a Mum, part iv
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Protected: Maybe baby
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International Women’s Day 2008
It’s the strangest thing. Here we are in 2008. One in three Australian women is still the subject of domestic violence. There’s yet another woman in a Muslim country on death row for being caught in a video with a man who wasn’t her husband – she’s been accused of…
Yay for the Department of Immigration!
Whoever thought I’d be writing a subject-line like that, huh? Still, Doug just got his confirmation letter granting him a Spouse Visa (Provisional) and saying they’re transferring the file from Washington to Auckland which usually takes three working days. He has to…
Closing tabs
Finally. Finally. I’ve had about 46 tabs open for ever.So: Brilliant “i can has cheeburgerz” version of Sisyphus via silverblue . The totally awesome concept of an emergent gender-neutral pronoun in English.Steampunk keyboards — found through Neil Gaiman, who I…
Protected: And now for the truth…
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Reminiscing
It’s a sad thing in some ways when the first thing I post in a while is about Gary Gygax’s death. Gygax, for those of you who don’t know, was one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons.But if it weren’t for Gary Gygax, I’d be a very different person, I think.…
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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