Month: July 2011

  • My Week in Melbourne

    My Week in Melbourne

    Flying out of Melbourne and away from my family. Back to Canberra now. The people in Melbourne were nicer than I expected, even the homeless seemed hospitable to some degree. I expected attitudes of cynical big-city life, similar to the cynical we-think-we-live-in-a-big-city life I’ve come to expect from number of people in this town. But,…

  • Links of Interest

    These are too rare. I should really get into the habit of doing more. My RSS reader is full of Interesting Things that I just don’t have time to report on. If We Don’t, Remember Me. Like all good tumblr sites, IWD,RM is cinematic hauntology. Perfectly picked scenes from films that are rendered into seamlessly…

  • So I’m Back

    Right. I have a new job now. There a number of things that happened in the last couple of weeks, except that I cannot write about them now. Or possibly ever. But I guess they are not worth mentioning in the first place. There is one thing I can say about my job right now:…

  • Gonzo Review

    Gonzo Review

    I have just finished reading “Gonzo: A Graphical Biography of Hunter S Thompson”. Its a good read, with words by Will Bingley and pictures by Anthony Hope-Smith. If you have read about Hunter S Thompson’s life before and either one or eight of the other biographies about his life (only those written by people other…