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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.

Leaving… on a jet plane

by | Jan 20, 2007 |

This will come as a sur­prise to many (hell, it comes as a sur­prise to us) but Doug and I will be moving to the States for a while rather than living here as first planned. I’m not going to go into the detail pub­licly for vari­ous reas­ons. I will how­ever say that it’s…

How to travel in style in Queensland (no, really)

by | Jan 10, 2007 |

Step 1: Col­lect your sexy part­ner or other trav­el­ling com­pan­ion, maps and other essen­tials. Step 2: Buy a run-down Toyota Hi Ace and have someone else con­vert it into a camper­van with a bed in back. Buy bins for clothes, med­ical gear, food tins. Buy a large esky; this…

It’s Thursday, so we must be in Windsong

by | Jan 4, 2007 |

Wood­ford was won­der­ful, as usual, though some­what calmer than I remem­ber. Might be some­thing to do with the mostly dreamy state I’m in right now. Léo (the French gypsy ska band I raved about years ago) were fab­ulous as usual. Sydney siders can see them as part of…

Announcing 11°south

by | Dec 19, 2006 |

After severe birth pangs, 11°south has arrived. You can visit our new travel mag online at http://​www​.11de​grees​.com​.au… or pick it up in print from air­ports and back­pack­ers as soon as we get dis­tri­bu­tion sorted out. Mag­na­tion in Eliza­beth St, Mel­bourne will carry it…

Violence begets violence…

by | Nov 21, 2006 |

…or “fight­ing for peace is like fuck­ing for vir­gin­ity” as the old graf­fiti used to say. I am so dis­heartened by the events of Sat­urday and the sub­sequent over-reac­tion by police that I barely know where to start. First of all, there was my beau­ti­ful car­ni­val and its…

Carnivale beyond capitalism

by | Nov 16, 2006 |

It was recently brought to my atten­tion that I may not have pro­moted a cer­tain car­ni­val so that people knew what it was all about. Join me for a car­ni­val beyond cap­it­al­ism in response to the G20’s pres­ence in Mel­bourne. Con­trary to cop pro­pa­ganda, we’re plan­ning a…

In which drama arrives in this LJ

by | Nov 14, 2006 |

This entry is for the many people who I’m sure are pop­ping by from green­glow­grrl’s journal to see what the Devil looks like. Let’s start from the top. She never asked dir­ectly me to remove her from my friends list nor asked me not to read her journal. I only read that…

Today was a *good* day

by | Nov 11, 2006 |

Woke up early and headed over to fiz­it’s. We jumped in a car and drove down to Queenscliff on the Bel­lar­ine pen­in­sula. Had break­fast and a coffee spear­mint shake like I used to have from Chats­wood Chase Oak Milk­bar and then wandered around look­ing in shops, look­ing at…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.