My dad, my brother, and I drove out to see the crash site where Peter Brock died earlier this year. My dad told the story how on his way to work that day he had seen the last three cars leave off from where ever the racing event started. (I think the casino.) It made […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
shed
Sheds are a suburban phenomenon. Actually I’ve seen them in the inner-city, as a kind of communal garden shed, and of course in the country of a much larger scale, but the suburban shed is a different beast. It requires some basic skills to erect and a space in which to erect it. Sheds are […]
King’s Gothic Manifold
I am in awe of Stephen King’s most recent novel “Lisey’s Story”. Most of the press about it has focused on the obvious digs that he makes towards academics. Yeah, so what… I have grown up reading King, not studying him. “It” (the book) was the first ‘adult’ novel I read. It made me want […]
The Art of Small Talk
[I have been writing this for a while. It is a little uneven and maybe even a little bizarre.] What if you didn’t know how to make small talk? Small talk is not something you have, it is something created between a population of attendent speakers. Let’s call these attenedent speakers ‘players’ because they are […]
Customisation
There is currently a line of men’s footwear (that I saw in a surf shop) called ‘Custom’. Right… Mel has a new post up on Footpath Zeitgeist on customisation where she discusses a paper from the recent Fashion stream of the CSAA conference. In part she writes: Indeed, what I really liked about Silvester’s research […]