Welcome to Phoenix’s world-changing Salon
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.Ugliness as it relates to home environment
I find this really fascinating. A couple of UK studies suggest women from broken homes are ‘more masculine’ and hence ‘less attractive’ (presumably to heterosexual men). Even more fascinating to me is that the ‘ugliest’ girls were those whose parents stayed together…
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Fame and passion
A conversation that came up at fizit’s place over dinner became a theme for the night (I carried the conversation with me to Dale and Mike’s party and then to Claire and Benno’s). I often say I seek out passionate people. I know I come across as arrogant and…
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Poetry update
All righty then. Many late nights in front of the telly later and I have migrated 61 of my poems into the new system, slightly tweaked with feedback from various folks and moved to my own server since I couldn’t fiddle with colours and CSS if it stayed on WordPress.…
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About bloody time
Mal Brough says we should remove the perpetrators of crime from the scene rather than the victim. What a novel idea. Funny how male violence against women and children is the only one where we regularly require the victim to relocate ‘for her safety’ whereas in every…
Geoffrey Robertson, I love you
Only Geoffrey Robertson could actually ask Amanda Vanstone on national television to recite the second verse of the national anthem and catch her out on “for those who’ve come across the sea/we’ve boundless plains to share” and then actually say to her, “It doesn’t…
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Music and magic
Thursday night I dropped by the Stencil Festival Opening night (and wrote up a story for {ariel flux}). Friday night I dropped down to Café Quince down the road from my new place to listen to Phil Carroll and Ernie Gruner play tunes from all over Eastern Europe,…
I’m so lucky
Just saw the new TAC ad. It reminds me very graphically of my accident in August and makes me envisage only too well something that happened to journey2master many years ago. I am so grateful that I only have minor back pain now…
Women and the art of motorscooter maintenance
Two gold stars to the woman who stopped to help me jumpstart the new bike this morning (I think its name is Alsvidir, thanks to _snowrose_). Unfortunately, she loses a star again for saying “maybe you should wait for a guy” when she couldn’t open her own bonnet…
Space and phrases
Before I spend too much more time on something that may not be working… Is this (WordPress) better than this (my old site) as a way of navigating my poetry? Ignore the design for now… I never was a great designer and I can certainly change fonts and colours and…
LiveJournal, journallers, bloggers and more
[Note: this is a repost as you can’t edit a post with a poll in it.] A childhood friend of mine, Mark, found my journal many months ago and then joined up, becoming bourdieu_boy. Then he found that what he wanted to do with the journal didn’t really suit the style of…
Indigenous pain
I’m pretty shocked by what I’m hearing on Lateline right now. The reports this morning about sexual abuse in remote communities up north were pretty bad. Combine that with this attack on a woman – pouring petrol on her and setting her alight – and the dreadful…
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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.
