Still Life With Cat

Assistance is sought from the gentle reader (and all the others, whoever you may be) on a project I dreamed up twenty minutes ago that has a...

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...

Get up after less than 5 hours' sleep, knowing you will not go back to sleep and wondering why you have suddenly become insomniac: tick ...

In today's Crikey newsletter, Peter Craven reports on the new Harry Potter movie: ... it’s so episodic that it actually has the material...

I spent an hour today with a dear friend drinking sparkling wine and bemoaning the state of our peer group -- almost all of whom including b...

Last time I whinged in this my OWN PERSONAL ONLINE SPACE about feeling crushed by the workload, some drive-by psycho, a species of which I s...

The combined effect of a mention of Bobbie Gentry on the current Lazy Sunday thread at Larvatus Prodeo plus the amazing clip of the equally...

PASS

*Clears throat, rings town crier bell, unrolls parchment* 'Disinterested' does not mean 'uninterested'. 'On Ermintrude...

"We don't need dreary old feminism any more, it's all irrelevant [sic], we're equal now, we're empowered." HAHAHAH...

Yesterday I went to a meeting that was scheduled to begin at nine. It was a Public Service thing so we're talking fifteen or twenty peop...

I sit on the sofa and I read one novel after another: good novels with bad bits, bad novels with good bits, good novels in whose subject mat...

... says it all.

Among the numberless occasions afforded by life for irritation, here's one that's been getting to me lately more than usual: can any...

Stephanie at Humanities Researcher is off tonight to a winter solstice feast, where seasonal poems will be read. I will be celebrating Sols...

What with first the longlist and then the shortlist , I'm not really all that surprised that the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award has...

In the coming weeks you will be contacted by the Governor General’s office with regard to the various protocol, dress code etc associated wi...

A comment chez one of my Facebook Friends this morning regarding the much simpler '"less" v. "fewer"' issue has...