Aus­trali­a’s involve­ment in this Chinese dip­lo­matic defec­tion is really begin­ning to dis­gust me. I thought when I first read about it that it was abom­in­able to ring the coun­try a person was defect­ing from and inform them of their where­abouts. I’m glad it’s not just me:…

He leans over and kisses her, his jet hair with its snow exten­sions caught back in a black bandanna brushed with spider­web pat­terns. He kisses her with the most gentle look, a devo­tion, an ador­a­tion, a com­plete giving, softer than silk, softer than ten­der­ness, softer…

A user’s guide to journ­al­istic cliches. Nicked from Crikey!

Have I men­tioned that I love my stu­dents? I’ve just been flip­ping through two of the prin­ted magazines they’ve sub­mit­ted… they’re fab­ulous. And one group made mer­chand­ise!!! I now have a calico bag prin­ted with the masthead of a non-exist­ent pub­lic­a­tion about…

Ques­tions I never answered when I was doing the inter­view meme, from demiurgically_m: 1. Every­one turns to someone(s) for help. Who (or what) do you turn to? I turn to dai­syn­erd because she’s incred­ibly smart and straight­for­ward and I know I can abso­lutely, 100% trust…

So, today I signed off almost the last of Unique Trav­el­ler. It’s good: looks fant­astic, good con­tent, best thing I’ve pro­duced since e)mag. The last thing to go is the cover. We’re just wait­ing on the bar­code to be sent by the people who supply bar­codes. Apparently,…

So, there I was on Tues­day night, with an invite to go to the inaug­ural mo:life net­work­ing night and feel­ing very res­ist­ant. Mobile phone con­tent pro­du­cers? I knew it was import­ant to keep in touch with the industry and the person organ­ising it is someone I really…

The plan: Stay home in the morn­ing and mark a little before going in to finish Unique Trav­el­ler dead­line. The real­ity: Start a Fringe Fest­ival applic­a­tion, volun­teer for the Refugee & Asylum Seeker Fest­ival, dis­cuss volun­teer­ing for Mul­ti­cul­tural Arts Australia’s…

Just passing on the info: DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF PETRO GEORGIOU’S PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILLS WHEN? WHERE? Sat­urday 11th June at 11 am, out­side Petro Geor­giou’s Office 695 Burke Road, East Hawthorn (near Cam­ber­well Rd Junc­tion). Sponsored by Labor for Refugees…

I had planned to spend more of today mark­ing but I was dis­trac­ted by yummy people and won­der­ful things. Had brunch in town with marius_cale and then we went off to ACMI for the World without End screen gal­lery exhib­i­tion and the State of Play gamelab exhib­i­tion that…

Meant to mark another stu­dent site but decided I’d better do this tran­script for the AGMC pro­ceed­ings instead. “Mar­ginalia: Edge Iden­tit­ies” is now avail­able for your per­usal on my site.

Watch­ing a doco on the ABC about Nick Cave and he’s talk­ing about read­ing my favour­ite Lorca essay about duende and how that’s informed his love songs. I knew there was a reason I loved his work.

1. Monday, June 20, World Refugee Day. There does­n’t appear to be any­thing planned in Mel­bourne that i can see. Anyone know any­thing? 2. Tues­day, June 21, 4.45pm East­ern time: Winter Sol­stice. Prom­ised nigelw I would work this out. Earlier than I thought. Any plans?…

Okay, I’m with p_cat and a bunch of other people… I’m becom­ing increas­ingly uncom­fort­able with the idea that Joan Felt pushed her father Mark Felt into reveal­ing his iden­tity for her own fin­an­cial gain. I noticed the quote from her about paying off debts in…

The stu­dents in my Digital Media class are cur­rently send­ing me last-minute topic con­firm­a­tions for their final essay. They have to pick a digital media market seg­ment and ana­lyse its poten­tial for pub­lish­ing, with a close ana­lysis of a case study. My fairly…