Still Life With Cat

Sometimes if you're lucky there's a moment, when you're working on a first draft, trying to turn it into a second draft, that co...

From today's Crikey: 'Iran's cover up. Baroness Ashton, the EU Foreign Minister, has been given a more modest neckline in Ira...

This is Crikey's Video of the Day today. As one of the many feminists around the world bedevilled by the question of Islamic dress c...

I just followed a link someone had put up on Facebook to watch the original trailer of Antonioni's The Passenger , a movie I've alwa...

are all I'm good for at the moment. * Am up sharp pointy end of Adelaide book, lurching from one paragraph to the next as deadline loo...

In a disaster situation involving both chaos and shortages, which is worse: looting, or charging ten bucks for a loaf of bread? Why?

I'm just starting to recover from a very nasty little episode a few hours ago that could have been any one of the following: (a) food po...

In the wake of assorted local, national and international natural disasters last summer, I was sufficiently freaked out to pack a small emer...

You've got to hand it to him though; he's 100% consistent. One relied upon him to make some response of this calilbre , and one has ...

Don't listen to this at work unless it's all right for you to be LOLing at your desk.

Today the national broadcaster makes its contribution to the ever-growing pile of human ignorance and stupidity by encouraging the populace ...

1: Two of the nicest people I ever met live in a place called Gargunnock in Scotland. I'd lost touch with them, and a few weeks ago was ...

Two apologies: (a) Comment moderation has been turned on, I hope temporarily. (b) A couple of regular readers here will have noticed tha...

9.40 pm and the presents are wrapped and the cards written on. The prawns have been cleaned and so has the toilet. The tablecloth has been i...

Now I know that with the Great Big Non-Story of Nick Riewoldt's Willy (and of course that's what this is really all about: is it tha...

Fans of Jimmy Webb might remember his 1970 album Words and Music (so vividly recalled by the magnificent Ten Easy Pieces 26 years later) o...

When a friend asked me last week how I felt about the whole Julian Assange thing, the best I could come up with was 'conflicted'. Wi...

Even if it were a meme without a difference, I haven't seen or done one of these for ages and right at this very moment am grateful for ...

Eighteen years ago, when my parents were mere spring chickens of 65, the most recent in a long line of family moggies padded off to the big ...