In spirit

Right this minute I’m unfortunately missing Brisvegas Grogblogging. I’m eagerly awaiting photos and lots of drunken/hungover posts over the next day or so. But no coy reports allowed! I want details. My excuse is good: I’m back in Hobart this weekend for a friend’s wedding. I think it’s going to be a bit like a [...]

It’s worth it (today anyway)

For an early career researcher, writing book reviews is part of the deal. On the face of it, they’re pretty thankless exercises. They don’t pay, they don’t count as ‘output’ when you’re trying to prove your work ethic, and to be any good they take a big chunk of time. I’ve done a bunch of [...]

The texture of eyes past

My desk is a mess of eraser bits. When I read, I draw a vertical line at the outside margin of passages I’d like to quote or keep for re-reading and general documentation. It has to be pencil. I have a small fit if I can’t find a pencil in the house. On such occasions [...]

You thought your valentine was geeky

Stolen from Akav via Relevant History. Thanks.

On AmEx cosmopolitanism, part I

Things are getting a little out of hand over at “For Amanda, especially”, so I’m going to take up some questions here in a new post. Something Glen writes has clarified a major part of my interest in Deleuz/ians/ists/ism: I have not yet [sic] anyone who has been ‘taught’ deleuze as an undergrad. I had [...]

It had to happen

What: Inaugural 2005 Brisvegas Bloggers Meetup When: Friday, February 25, 6pm Where: Rics Bar, Brunswick St Mall, Fortitude Valley Learn more and RSVP here. The date’s switched from a Sunday arvo I could make to a Friday night I can’t, so if you’re around please go and be my fly on the wall! I reckon [...]

For Amanda, especially

I don’t think that people on the Right are deluded, they’re no more stupid than anyone else, but their method is to oppose movement. Embracing movement, or blocking it: politically, two completely different methods of negotiation. For the Left, this means a new way of talking. It’s not so much a matter of winning arguments [...]

Proximity

My new upstairs neighbour has a habit of burping when he gets out of his car. It must be his way of expressing home-ness or something. Weird.

Door knockers

After a long, sweaty, contemplative afternoon cleaning an old apartment with many happy memories, I come home to settle in for a beer and a few blogs (everyone please welcome Christian to the world of MT). On cue, this guy comes to the door with a gold watch nearly blinding me, makes a joke about [...]

Heartwarming developments

1. Amanda Vanstone sums up the Howard Government’s success in one pithy phrase: ‘What’s in the public interest and what the public are interested in are two different things.’ 2. NSW Police demonstrate ongoing sensitivity by publicising the address of Mamdouh Habib’s new home.

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