Still Life With Cat

The item on top of the work pile at the moment is a now very battered advance proof copy of a novel called The Little Shadows by the C...

67 years ago tonight (thanks to Persiflage for the correction to my always-shocking arithmetic), at Adelaide's first-ever Carols by Ca...

I'd say RIP, but she doesn't look to me at all like the kind of person who'd have any interest in resting in peace, not even at...

Cast your mind back six years to Boxing Day 2004, when a tsunami caused 230,000 deaths in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and ten othe...

As is my wont round this time of year, I've been looking back at the bloggy ghosts of Christmases Past, thinking back to what was happen...

If you missed the Magda Szubanski episode of Who Do You Think You Are? (as did I until just then, not currently having a telly), then now i...

(In the comments thread on the last post, the one about the federal government's plan to house asylum seekers at an army base near the l...

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. Bu...

(Photo: AAP via the ABC website )

* Because I still have my Sydney Morning Herald weekly book reviewing gig, I am still reading a minimum of four novels a week. In several d...

Guest blogger: Papa Cat 'Mallee to Matelot' Maybe it was learning of the exploits of Raleigh, Drake and Nelson at school in the 1930...

It's over two years since my dad wrote down, at my request, his wartime memories so I could blog them. Ahem: Guest blogger: Papa Cat Whe...

Perhaps you remember the story of Ariadne , who saved Theseus's bacon when he went into the labyrinth to search for the Minotaur. She st...

1915 1917 See also here . 1935 My dad, aged 8, with his parents. On the back of this little photograph my grandfather has written, in his fo...

Mungo McCallum in today's Crikey: Once again Malcolm Turnbull is appealing to Gough Whitlam for help. Kevin Rudd’s proposal to broadband...

And thank God I work for myself, at home. Probably would have stayed up to watch the Inauguration regardless, though, I think. (And be payin...

If you've spent the morning struggling through a competent but depressing and claustrophobic novel by President Nicolas Sarkozy's cu...

We has it. Found via Hoyden About Town . This is just wrong in too many ways to count, but here are four to be going on with: 1) False adve...

So the phone conversation had been impassioned and lively like it usually was, ranging widely across the far fields of subject matter exotic...

This is for Laura . It's dated 1905 and as is pointed out over at I Can Has Cheezburger? (see link list in sidebar) where I found it, ...