…stealing your bandwidths. So I’ve moved again. This time into a studio in Newtown. It feels like the biggest place I have lived in purely because it has the biggest room. It is only one room, however. It does have an awesome balcony. Currently I have a set of mags sitting out there waiting for […]
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Love the Beast
I attended a media screening of Eric Bana’s Love the Beast this evening (well, actually Feb 11, I didn’t post this straight away). I am pretty sure I was the only gearhead there. BTW, Margaret Pomeranz was seated in front of me and I overheard her talking about the screening of The Watchmen she had […]
Enthuse CFP Reminder
Any of my readers thinking of submitting a piece for the upcoming ‘enthuse’ special issue of M/C Journal should do so relatively quickly. ‘enthuse’ Enthusiasm can be ‘blind’; yet, ‘no great deed can be done’ without it. Tests of ‘competition’, masculine ‘risk’, creative ‘experiment’, and political ‘opportunity’ or ‘struggle’ are all examples of the more […]
Use By
My traditional birthday greeting to myself on my blog: the ‘use by’ stamp on a milk container. It reminds me of the state of this culture I am part of.
(Not really) Life at Walmart
It started when I read Nickel and Dimed, in which Atlantic contributor Barbara Ehrenreich denounces the exploitation of minimum-wage workers in America. Somehow her book didn’t ring true to me, and I wondered to what extent a preconceived agenda might have biased her reporting. Hence my application for a job at the nearest Wal-Mart. OMG […]