Still Life With Cat

The Blogger platform, which has served me well since I was a beginner blogger in 2005 with no clue at all about what I was doing, has underg...

Since last Thursday I've seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 , gone to hear my friends D and M sing in the Mozart Requiem a...

 Margaret Simons has a must-read post up at The Content Makers on the ethics of journalist James Massola's outing in The Australian of...

Because I'm going to get this blog going properly if it kills me.

There's some new stuff at the new blog .

Loth to let the litblog thing go altogether, though one has tried and failed to keep it up at more than one site, one is having yet another ...

Beyond the fact that s/he appears to hail from Sydney I have not yet (not that I've tried very hard so far) found a clue to who the Loon...

Some time in the last few hours, the visitor stats here (not unique visits, of course -- my freebie basic-level counter doesn't do anyth...

Go and have a look at this lovely piece by Tim Dunlop for the ABC's The Drum on the achievements of Tony Abbott, including discussion ...

Sometimes it's because someone else will be hurt, sometimes it's because someone else will be humiliated, sometimes it's because...

It's been a long and painful process and even now I occasionally succumb to temptation, but I've learned over four years of blogging...

So, will my Visitor stats hit 60,000 today? And if they do, will I get a special cookie? UPDATE, 6.30 pm: Yes! All ur numberz are belong to ...

Sorry folks, I have a new troll -- some free-market worshipper behaving the way such types usually behave online, with the emphasis on anony...

Recent events have inspired me to have another go at reviving my dedicated Aust Lit blog, Australian Literature Diary , which has been lyin...

From Corduroy Mansions : 7. Proustian-Jungian Soup Caroline thought: It's odd, sitting here, letting one's mind wander, and who sho...

... but only just. For all of this week and half of next week, I attend all-day meetings by day, do the reading and note-taking for said mee...

It always bemuses me a bit when people start talking about their needs , as though the mere act of declaring them were some kind of claim to...

From today's edition of Crikey : Next week Crikey launches a new music blog from on-line legend Tim Dunlop. Music reviews, gig reviews a...

There's no time to look it up, for there are chocolate bunnies and assorted hot cross buns to be bought, Aged Ps to visit and yet more A...

Since the bride and Ampersand Duck between them have already provided lovely accounts, in one case lavishly illustrated, of Laura and Dori...