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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Language, fraud, folly, truth, knitting, and growing luminous by eating light

Thursday, August 30, 2007

i found this advice for writers on a blog called Making Light which is kind of huge and interesting and has the rather nice byline Language, fraud, folly, truth, knitting, and growing luminous by eating light.
“The author makes a tacit deal with the reader. You hand them a backpack. You ask them to place certain [...]

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the battle for the wooden spoon

Monday, August 27, 2007

as i am currently writing elsewhere football allows me to take pleasure in loss, but all good things must come to an end or so they say, and so next week brings the last games of the footy season, that is for those of us who support losers that don’t figure in [...]

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the arecibo message

Sunday, August 19, 2007

it was in 1974 when it was decided that a message would be beamed into space which was meant to communicate to any alien civilizations out there that we exist. there is something (wonderfully …hopelessly!) seventies about this. it is born of an optimism (naiveté?) about life and living which makes me a [...]

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eat shit john howard

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

for some reason the kevin07 website stimulates my funny bone … maybe it is just the slickness of the campaign, so unusual for boring old aussie elections … they generally still think “it’s time.” is pretty cutting edge. and this is more like well think magnum … big kev … big mac, but who cares? [...]

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last thoughts on ashfield

Saturday, August 4, 2007

last thoughts on ashfield : you’ve got ashfield, belfield, enfield, and strathfield – so what happened to canterfield?
future ashfield artists in residence looking for peace and quiet please note : when it’s not raining pratten park is a hive of activities morning noon and night : tennis, soccer training and matches and during the holidays [...]

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