Catch­ing up on LJ and there are lots of depress­ing things hap­pen­ing in the world. The US gov­ern­ment has pur­portedly assas­sin­ated the leader of the Puerto Rican inde­pend­ence move­ment. I can’t actu­ally find a spe­cific post of patch­workkid’s to link to, as it’s all just…

“FREE PUBLIC LECTURE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, The Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne Inaug­ural Pro­fess­or­ial Lec­ture Pro­fessor Charles Zika “Witches and Other Ste­reo­types: Image-Making in Pre-Modern Europe” Tues­day 4 Octo­ber 2005, 6.15 pm Elisa­beth Mur­doch Theatre A (just off…

Hello, Can­ber­rans! I will be passing through your city on the way home tomor­row. I will be spend­ing the day with the lovely Kyle and Alix, chil­dren of demiurgically_m, but was hoping to have a dinner catch-up with the rest of you wot is avail­able. I pro­pose the Asian…

I walk down south Fre­mantle beach and the sea calls to me. The winds are cool off the grey sand and the waves are teal and indigo, with cream foam, ser­en­ad­ing the beach with soft sighs. The grass is stud­ded with yellow dais­ies, bright and lus­cious and violet…

Hectic, hectic day work­ing on the Very Secret Pro­ject. Didn’t get around to men­tion­ing that I am flying to Perth for 11 days to stay with e_dan and his part­ner Jaime. I’m actu­ally writ­ing this on the plane [and post­ing it next morn­ing from their house] – how crazy!…

… that Scott Parkin would never have got this much pub­li­city about Hal­libur­ton’s involve­ment in Iraq if he hadn’t been arres­ted… Whether pub­li­city actu­ally has an effect on *policy* is an entirely sep­ar­ate debate.

Fas­cin­at­ing art­icle on Bush’s response to Kat­rina from New­s­week. What strikes me about this is the exchange between Gov­ernor Blanco and Bush. This is *not* the time for pro­tect­ing your author­ity, woman!