home cooked theory

Promo posters

These should start to appear out and about in the next week. Feel free to reproduce the image if you have a space to run it. And let us know if you’re coming: the email for RSVPs is on the flyer. I got my VIP tickets for the concert yesterday. The perks of my job! [...]

Pig City – The symposium

Locals may have seen the posters around town for Pig City, a concert being held at UQ in a couple of weeks. Inspired by the book, and UQ’s association with festivals past, the day features a bunch of bands that helped build the underground rock scene during the darker days of Brisbane’s past, setting the [...]

Holidays and domestic bliss

Last week I had a mini-holiday before the conference season kicks off. Proof:

It involved staying at a yuppie enclave (a “resort” of beach “shacks” – contradiction much?) but then sneaking through the caravan park to play on the swings and live out my childish fantasies of unrealised beachside holidays. I never got to experience the [...]

Tutors for Semester 2

Anyone looking for tutoring work in Cultural Studies at UQ next semester?

Pride Politics in the Pub tonight

Are Queers butch enough for the union?
…from Blundstones and blue singlets, to Mr. Humphries and Smithers…
…Join some of Brisbane’s leading wits for a debate about Queers in the union movement – breaking down stereotypes and discussing union ideals…
Party afterwards with Dj V and then kick on upstairs at Sporties
Thurs, 21 June @ 7:00pm
Sportsman Hotel
(Downstairs)
130 Leichhardt [...]