and your research is looking good, although i am indifferent to your research networks. All I see is a ghetto of like minded people; bad for democracy. I am good for democracy because I remind others that there are reference points beyond what they imagine is a full academic engagement.

Keep up the good work; and make some new friends, learn to delibarate beyond like minded people. We aren’t as bad as you imagine.

Best,

Craig Bellamy

Secondly, I did notice a bunch of couches around the front of a few venues in the valley a few weekends ago. And then they were conspicuous in their absence from the front of the Columbian. Problem with couches outside is that’s where all the smokers hang, esp at venues between bands. When you go outside for some fresh air. And then you sort of hover indecisively.. ahh, see. I knew I had something ambivalence-related to type!

Wonder if this comment will get spam filtered like my previous apologia (which I would be grateful if you now ignored BTW )

“I can’t believe ambulance means a walking hospital”

but, mel, then all you need is a dr love. maybe. i am thinking something along the lines of macgyver, but he was like a walking hardware store. does anyone know the reverse latin-french-germanic-lalala etymology of ‘walking hardware store’? ambacgyverulance. so not just macgyver. you need some doogie houser L.D. (love doctor) to get the nerdilicious faux innocence. and perhaps some other 1980s icons. but definitely doogs. maybe the A-Team cause they had the best theme song. and a rockin van. i’m sure you could have a van with a motif of ‘my little pony’ mythology and a rainbow on the side. a panelvan with airbrushed rainbowed-up my little pony panelvan art. excellent. it would need some sort of crushed velvet interior. perhaps purple. and maybe some incense. and a crystal prism that refracts the light making it reflect off the sequins. and two tear drop windows. and a pine bookshelf.

Will, a leather street couch is a leather couch on the street. Strangely, they have featured a lot in Brisbane venues I’ve been to this week (e.g. the art gallery Jean and I were at, then a restaurant with my Dad). I wonder if they will still feature as the temperature continues to rise.

Also: Deleuze has a nice concept of ‘home’ which captures some of the ingenuity and the tactical deployment of space I was getting at… which doesn’t preclude the kinds of gestures you’re getting at with the room-making. Sigh. I should really stop waiting for other people to buy me flowers.

I can’t believe ambulance means a walking hospital.

Will, I agree with you. There is no place for ambivalence in the bedroom, no matter what you intend to do there.

Butdon’t underrate yourself, sexiness, sonorial (!) or otherwise, is the most serious of matters in my book!

Also there was no point in me going on with the pretence that I had any clue about the etymology of the two terms after Catri’s cogent analysis of the matter.

“Ambivalence is the ennui” is a good characterisation and strikes precisely at why I find ambivalence so ennervating (but that’s just my take). I hate not being able to make up my mind. How unreconstructed is that?

It’s a fine thing that ambivalence can be considered as productive and agile state.