Went to the Andy Warhol Time Cap­sule exhib­i­tion at the National Gal­lery of Vic­toria. Intriguing, fas­cin­at­ing, time con­sum­ing. Warhol, appar­ently, hated the amount of stuff he received and wanted to simply toss it out as it arrived but someone per­suaded him at some…

What a week­end. I won’t go into all the events, since they’re extens­ively covered at the Baxter05 site. If you want the high­lights, you can read some of the stor­ies the Baxter Indy­media Crew uploaded live from the deten­tion centre using a laptop and mobile phone…

I’ve always liked Ross Git­tens. I’ve said for years that there should be a list of check-boxes in your tax return for pro­jects you’d like to donate your taxes to. That way, I can tick edu­ca­tion, public health and so on and know that none of my money is going to the…

So, I’m off to Baxter deten­tion centre tomor­row to protest against Aus­trali­a’s man­dat­ory deten­tion policy that locks up asylum seekers against inter­na­tion refugee con­ven­tions to which we are sig­nat­or­ies. I’ll be back Monday… don’t know whether I’ll be in phone…

1. I really, really, really need a new com­puter. 2. One of these days, I should stay home long enough without any other pro­jects to do and, you know, clean this place.

Well, I’m an aunt. His name is Leo Sydney Alex­an­der (the last bit is his last name… you have no idea how weird it is to me that neither of my sis­ters share my sur­name any more). The middle name was my grand­father’s first name. It’s a Jewish tra­di­tion to give the…

Appar­ently, the Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment is trying to ‘close a loop­hole’ in the local elect­orial laws and force blog­gers to reveal their iden­tity if they post polit­ical con­tent. This arises from last year’s ker­fuffle over the John Howard Lies site. I am uncer­tain how I…

I finally put up the pics of Merri Creek flooded after those huge storms.

As some of you may know, turtlesnake and mde­sacre­bois are get­ting mar­ried on the 19th of this month. I’ll be coming up to Sydney for the happy event. And it’s just come to my atten­tion that the day after is Autumn Equi­nox. I’m think­ing a picnic in Camper­down Park,…

Proof that Amanda Van­stone has never had a sense of humour. Poor dear, get­ting the Good­ies mixed up with the Wiggles. Mind you, back when we were watch­ing the Good­ies, the Wiggles were the Cockroaches.

Right To Life Marge Piercy A woman is not a pear tree thrust­ing her fruit in mind­less fecund­ity into the world. Even pear trees bear heav­ily in one year and rest and grow the next. An orchid gone wild drops few warm rot­ting fruit in the grass but the trees stretch…