The fab­ulous folks who do two of my favour­ite ref­er­ence sites (Your­Movies and YourTV) have finally pro­duced Your­Gigs. Beau­ti­ful examples of per­son­al­isa­tion and clear layout. So easy to find what I want. I’ll never have an excuse for miss­ing a cool gig again.

Kend­all Hill, deputy editor of the Good Week­end, just e‑mailed me to accept a pitch I sent for a story for the Two of Us sec­tion. Oh. Wow. *blink*

It’s done. Forget the Rules is live, launched, the site is up, the video is stream­ing, it’s live on 3 phones and, I assume, aired on Chan­nel [V] this after­noon and was repeated at 9.30pm. I am exhausted. I am also very drunk. I have to say for the record:…

[ganked from anti­minke} Mean­while, the Cath­olic Church has taken the amaz­ing step of releas­ing a teach­ing doc­u­ment explain­ing (mostly to the poor South­ern Baptists, I think) that (shhh!) not everything you read in the Bible is true. I’m fas­cin­ated that they include…

Latest plan: take $7 mil­lion out of indi­gen­ous com­munity devel­op­ment funds to admin­is­ter a scheme to help indi­vidu­als lease tra­di­tion­ally owned land for 99 years at a time. Because, of course, the indi­vidual is the most import­ant thing ever and we can’t have those…

I am sooo tired. I haven’t expen­ded this much con­tinu­ous brain power in a while, and the last few times I’ve done it, it’s been my only job. This time, I’m teach­ing as well. Anyway, Forget the Rules is becom­ing a fluid merger of web site revi­sions and plans for media…

Ganked from art­broken and patch­workkid: Go read this. It is a very well thought-out ana­lysis of how racial fear and pre­ju­dice in New Orleans caused unne­ces­sary deaths, fol­low­ing a New York Times art­icle about how few deaths were actu­ally caused by violence.

Saw Serenity last night with wilds­oda. Bril­liant. As so many of my other friends are post­ing, I’ll also quote: “I am a leaf on the wind…” It’s almost a per­fect film: superb dia­logue, although delivered a little too cas­u­ally at times and hard to catch on first…

In the last few days, I’ve received a DVD from my friend Max in Sydney who filmed Cana­dian diva Ember Swift on her last Aus­tralian tour and is now making a DVD for them (mine’s an advance sample… don’t actu­ally know when the real thing will be out) and a CD from my…