Monthly Archives: March 2009

i guess that i could get crazy now baby

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30/03/2009

I’ve spent most of the afternoon rushing around the house, MC5′s Kick Out the Jams buzzing through my head. I imagine it’s going to be something of a theme song during April – it’s certainly what I plan on listening to every morning this week (although I’ll probably cheat and cycle through the innumerable...
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Alas, poor schnitzels, I knew them

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28/03/2009
Alas, poor schnitzels, I knew them

It’s Saturday morning and I’m sitting here listening to Chibo Matto and Regina Spektor, trying not to regret last night’s culinary adventure. This is what I ate: Actually before I start, it’s probably worth pointing out that I have this obsession with bad fast-food from places that do their best to try and replicate...
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Friday Youtubery

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27/03/2009

I found myself oddly obsessed with this clip this week. The naughties, they are time for clips where singers dance on travellators and treadmills.
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This Post in Bullet Points

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26/03/2009

Off to the Gold Coast again today, in order to learn how to be a PhD student. One might think that after so many years I’d have worked out how by now, but one would be mistaken (said without snark – there’s been a gear-shift in the process recently, and I’m the kind of...
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My week

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25/03/2009

For a week now I’ve been sitting down at the computer thinking “must write a blog post soon” without ever getting around to it. I open a post, stare at it for a few seconds, then put it off until later. I can see only two ways out of this deadlock – youtube or...
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What I did on my birthday…

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19/03/2009

Just dropping past to say a very public thank you to all the folks who wished me a happy birthday via the internets yesterday (and to say a big happy birthday to Ben Francisco, with whom I share the birthday). Sadly, I wasn’t much for the interwebs on the day itself. I did something wonky...
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The Tangled Bank

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17/03/2009
The Tangled Bank

A very cool open-call for a fiction anthology, put together by clarion-peep Chris Lynch: This year marks 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin, and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species. To mark the anniversaries, submissions are invited for The Tangled Bank, an e-anthology of speculative fiction, artwork, poetry,...
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Morning

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17/03/2009

There is something about getting up early and writing that always makes me feel virtuous. I like the way it gets the guilt of not-writing out of the way early, the way it sets the tone for the rest of the day (in which I think about writing in moderation, rather than obsessing about...
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It still feels weird when people mention stuff like this…

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16/03/2009

Jack Dan gets interviewed for Flycon and says a bunch of useful things about being a writer. He also names a list of writers to watch in 2009 which includes such oft-mentioned to peeps as Angela Slatter and Jason Fischer as well as, well, me. Which is both cool and moderately terrifying and a great reminder about how...
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In which I overcomplicate the notion of furniture.

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16/03/2009
In which I overcomplicate the notion of furniture.

Allow me to introduce you to the great redundancy in my flat: The redundancy, for the curious, comes in couch form (and possibly the desk in the lower foreground since I’ve already got two others, but the desk is awesome and thus excused from such considerations). My lounge room can seat six or seven...
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