So, I’m doing two poetry gigs this week: GIG 1: “The boys will learn”, 6pm, FRIDAY AUGUST 13: Cape Lounge, Cnr Brun­swick & John­ston Sts, Fitzroy Gab­ri­elle Ever­all (W.A), Ros­anne Ber­sten, Justin Ash­worth, Mark Lev­is­ton, Ken Smeaton. (Mostly my sexy poetry, some…

A long, long time ago, before the Net came to Aus­tralia (well, before AARNet, anyway), sad geeks had no e‑mail and no chat rooms to hang around in. What on earth did they do? They had pen­friends. I know: I had 30 pen­friends when I was 15, from all over the world:…

[ganked from patch­workkid] Prozac found in Bri­tain’s drink­ing water. Appar­ently, Prozac has now been so over-pre­scribed, it’s leach­ing into ground­wa­ter. If you’re not scared enough by this idea, you should read some of the reports over at Prozac Spot­light about how it…

I spent today writ­ing up lec­tures for my course because this new job starts on Tues­day effect­ively and I don’t think I’ll have time to actu­ally write the lec­tures during the weeks I’m giving them. If you’re doing it right, writ­ing a lec­ture takes a lot of damned…

In the last 2 months, over 5000 Aus­trali­ans have logged on to www​.NoFTA​.org and sent a mes­sage to ALP leader Mark Latham, asking that the ALP block the US-Aus­tralia Free Trade Agree­ment. TODAY, FTA legis­la­tion will be debated in the Senate.  Now is our last chance to…

Haven’t been paying a lot of atten­tion this week, so this is ganked from hasimir: Mean­while the Min­is­ter for For­eign Affairs and Trade, Alex­an­der Downer, has made the quote of the week when he said, in rela­tion to ter­ror­ist threats against Aus­tralia and Italy: “This…

Appar­ently my nat­ural exuber­ance has once again had unex­pec­ted con­sequences. Apo­lo­gies to those con­cerned. MIFF Day 2 The Graf­fiti Artist: An inter­est­ing little film with hardly any dia­logue. The film fol­lows a doe-eyed boy named Nick through the streets of Portland…

Another great night last night. My first two films at MIFF were both excel­lent. The Party’s Over con­cerns the last 6 months of the *last* US pres­id­en­tial elec­tion. Phil­lip Sey­mour Hoff­man satrts the film by saying he agreed to host it because he felt ignor­ant. He goes…

I am hap­pier than I’ve been for a long time and about to be insanely busy and stressed. I did indeed get a pos­i­tion as Deputy Editor of a weekly main­stream magazine… but not the one I had dreamed of. So, as of August 9, I am work­ing for Mel­bourne Weekly Bay­side, one…