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 [...]

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 [...]

Sign of the times

Caught on campus: Not the most uplifting sight on my lonely walk back to the carpark this evening! I have to teach next week, too – sigh.

Some workplace affects, 2007

1. 2. “Sure, networking is more focused in its intentions than merely hanging out with one’s friends, but that doesn’t make it crassly utilitarian. I may say to myself, “Self, you really need to increase your visibility in Sub-Subspeciality A.” But I don’t go and find all the Important People in that field and try [...]

Unbecoming

“I really am getting bored in a way I think Brisbane either causes, or at least cannot resolve.” Eric Michaels‘ AIDS Diary is – scarily – the only accurate representation of Brisbane I’ve come across in print, so it shouldn’t be surprising that I found it for $1 in the half price bin at the [...]

In brief

So far my ‘holidays’ have involved: – my ibook crashing – blue ribbon Brisbane indie rock & Gold Coast hip hop – a brief return to scotch – wondering about why I live here and things that shouldn’t matter – shopping for ill-advised Xmas presents – buying a sensible hat – fantasising about getting married [...]

Waiting ’til the cows come home

Today is the day I can put the away message on my email that says “I may not write back to you until February.” The amount of joy this is giving me is hard to describe adequately. This year has felt like one never ending battle with Microsoft Word, my inbox and these two keyboards [...]