I had an unbe­liev­ably awe­some night out with sleazemon­key, steam­punk and astro_dust. It star­ted out less than stel­lar with the play “Next Year’s Sluts” (sorry sab­bitha). It was Thelma and Louise meets Baise Moi meets The Break­fast Club, and I think it’s telling when…

I had a superb week­end last week­end. On Friday, Dean and I went to the Mel­bourne Plan­et­arium at Sci­ence­works. I’d never been there, des­pite having lived here for five years. It was lots of fun, although very dif­fer­ent from what I’d expec­ted. I’d ima­gined it would be…

My par­ents rock. Thank you so much for the pressies, guys! Item number one: I’m going to Mel­bourne Film Fest with a gold pass thanks to cashola. Item number two: Heeb the new Jew review, cul­tural item extraordin­aire, from the States. It’s Vice magazine for left-wing…

I have the res­ults for my thesis. The good news is that I got an HD. 80%. Scraped into an HD. The bad news is that as I’ve never been a huge fan of com­pet­i­tion or grad­ing like that because I am hyper-com­pet­it­ive and I don’t like that in myself (I delib­er­ately chose to…

I’ve been mean­ing to go and see the rather excel­lent exhib­i­tion of Art Spieg­le­man’s “Maus” on at the Jewish Museum ever since I fin­ished my thesis. The exhib­i­tion fin­ishes in another two weeks. mirelle21 has pro­posed brunch and a visit to the museum on Sunday. She has…

I was eleven when I first played with pro­gram­ming, hidden away in lib­rar­ies where the boys played space invaders and I dis­covered the secret codes that would make you sing to me in elec­tronic beeps, that would cause loops of words to scroll down your face… 10 PRINT…

Hmm. So, zara­bee gave me a GMail account and I notice that delve has one too and now jen_tlemnfarmer is tout­ing them. These are among the smarter folk I know, tech savvy and cul­tur­ally savvy. The T&Cs scared me, and so I don’t actu­ally intend to use my account for…

Applied for the Good Week­end Deputy Edit­or’s job. Fin­gers crossed. Spent a lovely Tues­day at ACMI, in the morn­ing watch­ing the unveil­ing of Adam Elli­ot’s Oscar for Harvey Krum­pet, and saying hi to Melanie Coombs, the pro­du­cer (who does remem­ber me from Uni, yay!) and…

My abstract for the Living and Loving in Diversity con­fer­ence has been accep­ted. My first paper out of the thesis. It’s in Mel­bourne in Octo­ber, which is nifty. I’m still plan­ning to submit a paper for the Pal­impsests: Trans­Form­ing Com­munit­ies con­fer­ence in WA in…

I wish I’d thought of this one. Mira Wrob­lewski took the Sydney Morn­ing Herald to the Press Coun­cil over its use of the term “illegal immig­rant”… and won. Given how strongly I feel that lan­guage affects the way we think, these kinds of inter­ven­tions are really…

Sun 20 World Refugee Day Refugee and Asylum Seeker’s Fest­ival 12.00pm — 8.30pm@The Fitzroy Town Hall 201 Napier Street , Fitzroy. Mel­bourne Drop in between 12pm and 5pm to enjoy a stun­ning show­case of tra­di­tional and con­tem­por­ary music and dance per­form­ances by the…

It’s like this: You go numb into your silent lunch hours Into the chill doom of day­light Are swept street­less down to city lib­rar­ies Walk out with China Mieville novels And Duke Elling­ton and urban fairytales Trying to warm your hands and heart By the heat of salsa…

I don’t really feel like I’m back in the world just yet, but I have to be. I’ve been dream­ing about <pred­ator> a lot, and think­ing about him, and the funeral and the wake. I’ve also been think­ing about his rela­tion­ship with Joss and great lost loves and…