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I’m reading on everyone’s LJs that he’s gone. I can’t quite believe it. The ABC and SBS web sites don’t have the concession news yet. Thank you, my blogging friends. We did it. I can’t believe it. Now we’ve got a few small discussions to have about refugee rights and…
Oh My Yes!!!!!!
I’m reloading the ABC election coverage in between having awesome conversations with a hot chick about implicit racial assumptions and listening to Doug talking about Stephen Colbert roasting Bush in the White House Press Dinner and I’m so freaking pumped that it…
Damn time difference
I want the polls to close so they can start counting and the ABC can start posting Australian electoral results. I’m at a friend’s in Austin and we’re staying up for at least a while so I can keep watch.I want to come back to a country which does not have John Howard…
N’awlins jazz, baby
Our second and final day in N’awlins was divine. Breakfast at the Camellia Grill in South Carrollton with far too much butter in the omelette (I could feel the weight piling on) followed by a driving tour of the Garden District, a trolley ride into the French Quarter…
New Orleans night out
Arrived in New Orleans and wandered around the Vieux Carré. Resisted the impulse to revert to Anne Rice and Poppy Z Brite fangirl worship (but did go to Bourbon St for Lost Souls’ sake). Ate oysters there. It’s an awful strip of strip clubs now.The rest of the quarter…
Happy Birthday!
Dear daisynerd,Happy birthday. I’m really sorry I’ve barely had time to speak with you over the last few weeks. You can open those presents now. You’re very patient for waiting till now! I hope your birthday is awesome and spectacular and here’s a photo of some…
Politics, art and liberty
The last days in New York were overcast then rainy, but we walked the Brooklyn Bridge and I spent a bunch of time in MOMA and the Met. I didn’t make it to the Guggenheim because it was closed on Thursday when I tried.Still, the Georgia O’Keeffes at the Met were…
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Belly, belly good
One thing about New York that is instantly evident in comparison to the mid-western towns we’ve been passing through is the quality of the food, although we did have one excellent example of unusually good road food in a little town called Le Claire on the Iowa side…
Chanukah, already
I didn’t write earlier about the weirdness of seeing Chanukah things in the shops here. (Hmmm. I said I was going to run this journal with a Chicago Manual of Style until I got back from the US but I don’t have it with me. For now I’m sticking with the Australian…
Enormity
As we’ve driven across the vast mid-west of America, I find myself thinking about politics and the widespread lack of American awareness of the outside world. There seem to be a couple of reasons that leap out immediately: with the exception of the excellent NPR, the…
Deadwood Country
In a parallel world, where I was still with hawk_eye, or if I were a world traveler like merovingian, I would have more details for you of the self who split off from me as we made the decision to go down I‑90 to Rapid City instead of 385 to Deadwood on our way to…
The great American roadtrip
Spent today in Yellowstone National Park. Mostly it was closed – we missed it by a couple of days, as it closed for the season November 5. Apologies to all in Seattle we failed to see (especially bevsob: I was really hoping to say bye before we left the country) but…
November 6, 1967
November 6, 1967 was to become an important date in my life. Of course, I didn’t know it then, three years from being born. On that day, somewhere in Lakemba, in Sydney, Australia, I believe, a 25-year-old beauty named Helen Levine, smart with long, almost-black hair…
A present for Jack, Christina & Jess
For various reasons. Via galagushka.
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My first quake!
I’m still shaking although the earth has stopped. Doug says it’s only about a 5 on the Richter scale but that was scary. I knew to go to a doorway but Doug stopped me in an archway so that’s all good. It started out feeling like there was something walking over the…
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Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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