Still Life With Cat

It's been nearly eleven years since I moved into this house and over those years I have found redback spiders in a number of places: tuc...

Last night I went to the premiere screening of a new short film by young local filmmakers Sonya Humphrey (producer) and Ashlee Page (writer-...

(1) If you're trying to think through/develop/write a complicated argument about Aboriginal writing and its relationship to ideas about ...

Ploughing sadly through the various horrors of the Adelaide news this morning, I came across an altogether more frivolous item about SA peop...

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...

Here's what I want to know: who was it who watched the Jackson Jive act on old Hey Hey footage from decades ago, when the participants ...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

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 ...

Because these days, apparently, you can get any old crap published. Any old offensive, outrageous, barking, evil crap at all. A taste, if ...

It's four years ago today since I tentatively followed the 2005 Blogger step-by-step instructions and eventually, to my own astonishment...

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

Random blog posts I would write if only [insert excuse here] One about the common motivation behind nearly all of the negative reactions I...

Between 7 pm on Friday night and 7 pm last night I had four separate conversations with four different people whom I've known for thirty...

Over the last week I've had two emails marking literary anniversaries and quoting bright stars in the literary firmament. September 18 w...

This morning there's been some serendipity; I began reading a novel by a young writer whose exploration of a sexual harassment incident ...

It's all true . Especially #8.

Longtime readers of this blog might remember my astonishment on discovering, in the course of an enthusiastic rummage through the online NSW...

Life for most thinking people is a daily battle of the various principles, large or small, that for one reason or another are mutually exclu...