Still Life With Cat

Q: How long does it take to get bored with the new iron? A: About seven teatowels.

Unfortunately, at the moment, very little of it is bloggable for one reason or another, and there's too much going on for there to be ti...

Thanks to some up-to-the-minute Facebooking by Judith Ridge of Misrule , I have just seen the shortlist for the 2009 NSW Premier's Prize...

Finally at 2 am this yesterday morning I put this book down, about half-finished in one hit, and went to bed, but I didn't want to. It...

Stephanie of Humanities Researcher, clearly homesick enough in Philadelphia to be reading the Age online, notes an expression she has neve...

There are some bloggy conversations being had at the moment containing jaw-droppingly stupid arguments in defence of the Pope and his tran...

These are eventful weeks in various ways, which is why no blogging. Too busy actually doing stuff. The calendar says that over the next two ...

Only last night I was saying to a friend that vampire novels still seem to be hot (I cannot believe they've made a movie of Let the Rig...

That old chestnut 'Count your blessings' has saved me from the pits on a number of occasions over the years, as have 'This, too,...

Well . There goes my cred. Utterly contrary to my predictions -- and my confidently nominated winner hasn't even made the longlist -- h...

Over at Matilda , Perry Middlemiss has compiled a list of eligible and likely contenders for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. ...

The 'notifications' on Facebook, once a simple mechanism to let you know when some Friend or other had done something or other, now ...

There's a good post and discussion thread here about the jockeying and jostling for states' rights to the waters of the Murray, an ...

As of a moment ago, I am no longer sure whether I still believe in democracy .

This post began life as a comment on this post over at Helen's Cast Iron Balcony, but once I'd violated the three-paragraph comment...

... I received this flyer: For some detailed and fascinating insights from the novelist's own mouth pen keyboard about some of the pro...

From today's online Age : "Peter Costello is one of the most distinguished Liberals to grace the Parliament in the party's exis...

One of the joys of a regular income is that one can afford to toddle along to various beautiful Adelaide venues whenever the mood takes one ...

On page 263 of John Grisham's new novel The Associate , which in most respects I'm enjoying for all the usual Grisham things, there ...