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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.Renegades
I’m staring up at my panel of Transmetropolitan on the wall above my desk, in which Spider Jerusalem is in the process of kicking down a door, his big boot extending past the bottom of the frame. “I don’t have to put up with this shabby crap’ he says. “I’m a…
Reflections
I am grading papers, one of my least favourite tasks in teaching, and one that always pushes me towards procrastination and reflection. Today’s fleeting reflection started out with “how can I stop all the Asian-Australian students/Asian international students sitting…
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Protected: Yuletide: getting in early!
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Protected: Farewell, my friend
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Protected: inner circle: the parting of ways
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Text for today
abiuro gave me back a Jewish prayer book I loaned her years ago and I opened it randomly and read various bits. Given that it’s Friday night and just gone sunset (Shabbat, according to the Jewish faith I grew up with), and also happens to be the cross-quarter between…
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Morales, Mora, old politics in the new world
Let’s see if we can get the same enthusiasm for posting about Bolivian gas fields as we did about leg hair… *smirk* I meant to write about this a few days ago, but I’ve been busy. I’ve watched recent South American politics with great interest. I’m especially…
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Privacy
[note to self: stub to be expanded later] When I visited a recruitment agency the other day, they asked me to sign a waiver allowing them to store ‘personal and sensitive’information about me and share it with potential employers. I refused. This, of course, caused…
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Pimp yoself
Apparently I was on JJJ’s hack again this afternoon (download the mp3 – it’s at about 18 mins in). I do wish they’d tell me when they plan to air these things so I could pimp it better. (I snuck off to do the pre-record during lunchbreak at the IFJ last Thursday).
Phoenix Emberstone
passionate political poet
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