home cooked theory

When inspiration finally strikes

Today was the first day in a long time that I can remember writing until it got dark. No lunch break, no leaving the house (well, except to hang out washing), no watching the clock (apart from that wonderfully incidental kind of way, as in ‘Wow, I’ve been sitting here a whole ‘nother hour and [...]

Territory or Fraternity?

Update your RSS feeds everyone, Glen has just signalled war to the frat house project. He is the second person to do this in a week. I fear this could get very messy…

Job vacancy @ empyre

-empyre- mailing list is one of the most respected media arts discussion lists in the world today, with an ongoing and changing array of guests drawn from diverse aspects of networked and new media theory and practice globally.
We are currently seeking a new facilitator to work as part of a team, [...]

Meme-ories light the corner of my mind

MGinSydney#1

Laura was right, I have been a busy blogger. While away I was tagged by the same meme twice, which makes me think someone’s trying to tell me something. Well, that I should be writing on my blog, I guess. What follows will be a hyrid version of both.
On Saturday night at the [...]

What would Dawson think?

Tom Cruise has a new girlfriend: Katie Holmes! My dreams aren’t dashed after all. Twenty-six year old brunettes can snare millionares!

How long did it take?

PopeBenedict
Ah, the fun continues…

Pope Idol

New Pope
Rumours abound that the cardinals are employing new measures to maintain the Pope’s youth appeal…

Wireless working

This is the first post using my new wi-fi connection, yeah! Thanks to everyone who helped me navigate my way here, including the mystery reader who passed on my request to an iinet and mac user. You’re all lovely and generous. Now I have another request: that you send me all yr favourite music [...]

Good news

Top three exciting emails in two days:
Cultural Studies Review editor telling Glen and I our article will be published in a special issue on The Italian Effect Conference coming out in September (imagine! Miranda Devine and Keith Windschuttle might mistake me for a left wing cultural studies academic!)
Book publisher granting me an extension [...]

Sigh

I’m never gonna get this book written if my neighbours keep listening to Mariah Carey and Kasey Chambers. I mean really. Flyers for this website may have to appear in some nearby letterboxes quite soon.

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