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RIP DFW 2008-09-15 20:45:03 Since I received my pen license when I was 6, I have been a fiction writer. But then I moved to the country and now I only read and write nonfiction. It happened about 18 months ago and it happened suddenly and surprisingly and absolutely. I went off movies that weren't docos and off books that weren't based in fact.
I greatly admire writers who have a foot in both camps, such as David Foster
On Father's Day 2008-09-13 23:43:57 A few days ago I wrote about how I chose to love PJ and I chose to love Z. I also chose to love PJ because of Z.
On our first date we went on a picnic. PJ and Z made delicious gyōza and after lunch I filmed this:
My dad is a wonderful man whose friendship and opinions I cherish. Growing up, like many men of his generation, his work came first and his children second. As we grew up, he grew up. Read more:Father
Neck Laced 2008-09-13 23:39:03 Three days ago I wrote about the found necklace I was wearing. That same day, the plumbers who came to hook up our water tank left behind some clear plastic tubing that I cut up and threaded with some red string.
Redar 2008-09-12 18:46:10 I rode my bike past this red grid the other day that I had to dismount to pick up. It's usually to fill my basket with gleaned fruit that I stop, not discarded bits of plastic.
I like red things. I like red things for lots and lots of reasons. And have done so for almost a decade. One of these reasons is as a means to filter because the world is just so big. Someone once called it a redar, like a
Golden Words 2008-09-12 18:35:12 The other night at knitting group we talked about Alzheimer's because Mum is writing a book about her mum, who has the disease. C, who is knitting gorgeous red cushion covers, said that she read that people with Alzheimer's retain their emotional memory, even when their recall of words and memories of events have faded.
Maybe that's the same with all of us. I am too sensible to listen to Read more:Golden
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Still Life: Ingredients 2008-09-10 23:38:22 There are six of us in my knitting group, and when it's your turn to be the hostess you have to provide tea, coffee and something to eat. Tonight everybody is coming here.
My kitchen bench, 4pm:
My sister K, who is a fantastic baker, laughs at me because I do not own a single cookbook. She thinks it's funny that each time I want to make or bake, I go online then consult my open laptop for Read more:Ingredients
Fate Skate 2008-09-09 05:47:09 I finished reading In Cold Blood this afternoon at the skate park, where I had taken Z and a friend after school. The two boys skated and biked in the spring afternoon, while the two convicted men in the book sat in their cells and awaited their fates.
I always have a stack of books on my bedside table, though I never read more than one at once. If I am in the middle of reading a book and leave Read more:Skate
Byrne, Bikers, Byrne 2008-09-08 04:54:01 Keen bike rider and former Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne
(pictured) has designed a series of nine bike racks that can now be found throughout various New York neighbourhoods.
My sister A, who's studying in NYC at the moment is also a bike rider. I wonder if she has locked her wheels to one yet.
She'll have to hurry, as the racks will only be around for eleven months, after which time they Read more:Bikers
Robbin' the Rich 2008-09-07 19:11:57 From Reuters:Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices.
About 20 unarmed people, mostly wearing black hoods, carried out the midday robbery in the northern city of Thesaaloniki, police said.
Local media have labelled the raiders "Robin Hoods" following previous raids.
They take only packets of
In Bed with Murderers 2008-09-06 03:37:16 After recently seeing the film Capote, I thought it was high time I read In Cold Blood. Before a late lunch and a bushwalk this afternoon, I lay curled up on the couch reading it.
Last year I read Tony Parker's fantastic book, Life After Life: Interviews with Twelve Murderers. It didn't take me long to finish; all I wanted to do was read it. "I'm going to bed with my murderers," I'd
All About the Kids 2008-09-03 20:11:27 I once had a fight with someone I had known for a long time that caused the demise of our friendship. She was considering applying for a job in the marketing department of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. I encouraged her, saying that when she gets in, the first thing she should do is get rid of the McDonald's that's attached to the building. She vehemently disagreed, saying the
Springing 2008-09-02 04:46:13 I had planned to blog about our Riesentraube heirloom tomatoes that seem to be growing before our eyes. But that topic merely needs a couple of sentences, a photo and I'm done.
A much more blogworthy topic is the 6 year-old human seedling with whom I live. I picked him up from school today and we made a deal: I would buy him an ice-cream if he would climb a local wild tree overflowing with
Smelloblog 2008-09-01 17:30:40 On the train to Melbourne yesterday I had the passengers in the seats near me turn around because of something I did.
What I did: I ate a mandarin I had bought that morning at the market.
I am usually more of a strumpet for summer fruit - the rich tangs and textures - but oh the simple startle of a mandarin just peeled.
Counting Sheep 2008-08-31 22:22:27 Z had a friend stay over last night for the first time. At one point after a vigorous bout of wrestling, Z stood up from their pillow arena and announced that he now has three wallaby teeth. It wasn't until he asked me if I wanted to feel with my finger that I understood he meant wobbly teeth.
The boys were wild for the first few hours, but I couldn't really blame them, they were so excited. I Read more:Counting
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How to do Words with Things 2008-08-30 18:03:07 It's not very often that I see a logo that I really like, but here is one:
(I'm sure some of the appeal has to do with being a writer and my name beginning with M.)
I am off to the Writer's Festival tomorrow and I am most excited. You see, my rather clever boyfriend has written a book with our rather talented friend, Mr O, and they are launching it tomorrow evening at 6pm.
If you're in or around Read more:Words
Public Concern 2008-10-08 22:00:36 This is the first image that came up when I googled Private Public
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This morning I left later than usual for my walk and ran into two different parties of bush walkers in full Gore-Tex attire. At my usual hour it is just the native animals who spy me in my op shopped conglomeration of mismatched colours and layers.
I had my iPod and was in my own world as I listened to the latest This American Read more:Concern
With Decorum 2008-10-07 05:16:21 For my birthday I asked my sisters for a totem tennis. It sits in our garden and gets a beating when Z has a friend over or when I am feeling angry.
Sometimes I feel very very angry. Are you surprised? Why is it that anger is not something we talk about easily? And why is that I don't know many people who are very good at being angry? (Does that say more about the people I hang out with or more
The Conquerer 2008-10-07 02:11:20 A few nights ago I was one of 17. We car convoyed to a big gaudy Greek restaurant on the petticoated outskirt of Newcastle: families, feta, folk dancing.
I asked those seated around me what words they know in Greek.
PM, who's on the home straight of his PhD said that he has been hibernating, working. When he leaves the house, the light reaches him from different angles; sounds and encounters are
About Yesterday 2008-10-02 23:00:47 All morning I had a line from my paper in my head: "The French Government doesn't think so." It was the one sentence in my whole presentation I wasn't sure how to intone.
My talk was about violence on YouTube and in it, I discuss how last year the French Government passed legislation that outlawed the filming of violent acts by any citizen who is not a professional journalist. Bloggers, Read more:Yesterday
Hair Horse 2008-10-01 00:44:06 A quick shower before our early morning's flight.
I place my hair on the wall so as not to clog the drain.
The horse gallops on the tiles.
We fly. Read more:Horse
No title 2008-09-30 00:26:54 Happy Jewish New Year!
As tradition dictates, we dipped pieces of apple into honey, symbolising a healthy and sweet year to come, (the year 5769 to be precise).
Good things are indeed on their way. This afternoon we received a call from the company installing our solar panels to let us know of their arrival date.
And tomorrow PJ and I are off to Newcastle for This is Not Art.
From T.S. Eliot's
Graffiti Games 2008-09-29 06:46:01 Not long after I moved here, the bureaucrats at Melbourne City Council thought it would be a good idea to whitewash the graffiti from the streets in attempt to provide a homogenised version of the city for the tourists visiting for the Commonwealth Games
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As a protest, PJ came up with the idea of a roaming graffiti wall that he and some friends would walk through the city during the Games. B Read more:Graffiti
Bring the Cow Out 2008-09-28 21:44:32 When I first moved out of home I rented a room upstairs in a big house that had an adjoining room I used as an office. I bought a black and white cowhide to sit on the office floor in front of the fire place.
I got it cheap from a tannery because it hadn't been tanned properly. I couldn't see the problem, though when the afternoon sun came through my windows, boy oh boy could I smell it.
This is
Crisis Opportunism 2008-09-27 01:24:32 I am half way through reading Naomi Klein's 533 page tome, The Shock Doctrine, which seems an especially pertinent choice of books right now, given the current situation on Wall St.
The Shock Doctrine: The use of public disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters – to push through unpopular economic measures often called 'shock therapy.'
I wi Read more:Crisis
T-Shirt Weather 2008-09-26 17:06:32 They say that once you have survived your first winter up here your body acclimatises, making each subsequent winter a little easier. This winter was my second, and it's true, it was much more bearable than the first.
This most certainly has a lot to do with us now living in a properly insulated house, and it also has a lot to do with the current epidemic of sunny days, that has all but melted Read more:Shirt
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