I was going to write a post about how the Fourth World War is a film every­one should see. Instead I have to write that my good friend predat0r died at 2am on Sat­urday, of cancer, aged 32 or some­thing equally insane. He was one of the smartest, most amaz­ing, political,…

Went to the envir­on­ment protest in town after all. Late, but very worth it. I missed the actual march, but got a fair bit of the rally, and best of all Cat Empire played! So I got to boogie down with morgan303 and watch her dance circles around patch­workkid while he…

So, this morn­ing I slept until 11, had a bath, read *fic­tion*, meandered up the road, paid off the lay-by on my new book­shelf, did some vegie shop­ping, had brekky at Garths while read­ing *fic­tion*, came back home just as the book­shelf was being delivered, put the…

Thanks to the amaz­ing effi­ciency of RMIT bind­ing people, the thesis has actu­ally been bound and handed in. Since Mel­bourne Uni said they needed 24 hours, I assumed RMIT would too and it would­n’t get handed in until Monday… but no, they did it before my very eyes.…

I don’t give a damn about mar­riage. I do how­ever give a damn about people’s right to love who they want and make fam­il­ies. I also care a lot about the role of media in affect­ing people’s atti­tudes, in pro­mot­ing or redu­cing racism, homo­pho­bia and other pre­ju­dices. When…

Some­where in my thesis, I say that “iden­tity is always open to com­modi­fic­a­tion by the cul­tural ideo­lo­gical appar­atus of global cap­it­al­ism” (Mor­eiras, 1999). Now I have the ulti­mate proof: http://www.i‑am-asian.com/ I can’t tell if it’s a joke. It *has* to be a joke,…

I think the thesis might be fin­ished. I re-did the con­clu­sion yes­ter­day morn­ing and tidied all the things marked “check this”. I proof-read the thing includ­ing the bib­li­o­graphy last week and added three squil­lion full stops in places like (ed.) and moved around…