Still Life With Cat

It was brought to my attention this morning in a crueller light than usual that the whole ageing thing has finally caught up with my hair. B...

This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start. Like his immediate and indeed only superior (structural, that is, not mo...

If you are badly in need of a laugh (which, at the moment, I'm), this should do it. Inexpressible thanks to the lovely Ampersand Duck ...

One of my Facebook friends, a children's writer whom I've never actually met and who has several hundred FB friends herself, seems t...

Have you noticed that whenever The Australian wants to publish another piece of vicious, moronic, sexist crapola about Julia Gillard, they ...

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...

Kate Middleton in her official engagement interview said she was afraid she didn't 'know the ropes'. She's known William for...

From the ABC website's report on the bill being introduced in Parliament tonight by the Greens' Adam Bandt in support of same-sex m...

Leonard Cohen's giving a concert at Hanging Rock? Is that wise?

A British backpacker has "defended" himself against the breach-of-privacy charges laid against him for covertly filming a young wo...

... a new post . Gonna keep that one going if it kills me.

Book reviews: 3 down, 1 to go. Honours theses: 9 down, 7 to go. Words about Adelaide: 25,159 down, 24,841 to go. Gonna stop now, have ...

You know, the Greens are - I like to call them, you know, a pack of wolves in koala costumes -- Janet Albrechtsen Now, presumably this is ...

Today's crikey.com.au email bulletin has just arrived and in the subject line they were leading with the headline Swans' Budget Outl...

Would you say it was good or bad feng shui that I have redbacks busily spinning and weaving around the hinges of both the front and the back...

I've not seen The Social Network yet, though I do intend to, maybe this weekend. But I've read a great deal about it and the more I...

I do so love George Seddon , I just love him to bits. But I think, very sadly, that the good people of Adelaide will take a lot of persuadin...

(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...

  ... think again . Tony Abbott, fearless would-be saviour of the good burghers of Woodside in the Adelaide Hills from the invasion of the...

The Hon. Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia The Hon. Jack Snelling, Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education The Hon. Ja...