Monthly MACS

the time has come for me to speak in public for the first time in brisbane. since i moved here anyway. and not counting lectures… coz… they don’t count. so if anyone is sneakily reading this blog from a brisbane location (yes I mean you!) then come along to this that i am organising. announcing [...]

whatever

Currently planning for the upcoming Italian Effect conference, which promises to be a real doozy, what with all the preceding introspection and psychological warfare (too many academics have been watching the Olympics!) and the prospect of a showdown between theory heads and indymedia types. crikey! and people reckon the left is dead. if it is, [...]

winners = grinners

josh, em, jesse and i arrived at the ground early and feasted on some yummy nosh to cure the hangover from the party the night before. then it was off to the members’ area where em had wangled us some tickets so we could all sit together. the ground filled up steadily, tho it was [...]

indigenous game

This weekend I’m going to Sydney for the Indigenous Game – the basis for the AFL paper I’ve mentioned before. This football game is played once a year at Telstra Stadium, the old Olympics venue, between the Sydney Swans and Essendon Football Clubs. These two teams have a strong tradition of including aboriginal players in [...]

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Donkey John

fluffy deleuzians

having stumbled upon sandy online and his theory of fluffiness i am posting this chapter proposal to add another perspective on what is ongoing, highly academic yet still interesting quandry: why are so many deleuzians not deleuzian??? in answer to which i always find myself thinking, i’ve heard this before… oh hang on, that was [...]

bring it on

john howard claimed yesterday that australians are more interested in watching the olympics than focusing on an election. to which i say, dearest johnny, i am proud to be unaustralian in your eyes, and i would happily vote out your government any day. no amount of gold medals will make up for the damage you [...]

the happy couple

in honour of my lovely brother ringing me last night i am posting a piccy of him, his lady and the rock so that the first visit to my blog has some added excitement! let’s see how long i’m allowed to keep it up. for all other readers, this was the moment my bro proposed [...]

sigh

i have since discovered that adriana’s death was ‘inevitable’ as the gorgeous drea de matteo was already signed to appear in Joey, the Friends spin off. the shame. and IMDB also claims adriana was originally only supposed to appear for one episode of the Sopranos. so i should be a little bit happy. drea also [...]

in theory

well i now have a sniffle and a sore throat, no doubt from too much excitement at the ben kweller/ iron on gig saturday night. but no matter, it was worth it–thank you ons for your hospitality, dress sense and rock. standing in line outside the zoo, with so many undergraduate ladies in cords and [...]

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