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I'm Sorry, Chuck 2008-06-29 23:40:44 I'm sorry Chuck
Klosterman but I cannot finish your book.
I read three chapters, which I enjoyed, but don't feel implored to read any more.
I like your style and the level of attention you pay to the minutiae of pop culture, but you are almost too likable, or trying too hard to be likable, and reading your words makes me feel like I have eaten too much sugar.
I have enjoyed your magazine
Mediated 2008-06-29 20:57:59 Tonight in the bath when PJ got home from work, he at one end me at the other, I finished reading this book - a chance find in a good book shop.
I say: READ THIS BOOK.
De Zengotita says: The issue is no longer representation versus reality, phony versus authentic, artificial versus natural . . . there is no going back to reality. . . . We have been consigned to a new plane of being engendered by
King Corn 2008-06-29 00:13:51 Instead of going to see Even play last night, we stayed in and watched King Corn, a great doco that investigates the prevalence of corn in the US food chain.
While studying at college, two friends have strands of their hair analysed in a geochemistry lab and discover that the carbon in their bodies originated from corn. So what do they do? They go to Iowa, the middle notch on the US corn-belt,
Hello .edith 2008-06-27 08:37:07 Yesterday, the organisation that oversees the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), unanimously approved the move to introduce domain names other than .com, .org, .net and 21 other suffixes we have come to be familiar with.
Some people are predicting a goldrush mentality to develop.
.countries, .cities, .brands and .names will in early 2009, be available to the Read more:Hello
Goodnight Edith 2008-06-26 06:15:02 From the Seattle P-I:Edith
Macefield died at home, just the way she wanted.
The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 86.
"I don't want to move. I don't need the money. Money doesn't mean anything," she told the Sea Read more:Goodnight
My Dad & Ronald Hollowell 2008-06-25 06:28:57 Happy birthday to my dad who today is celebrating his 61st birthday. Happy birthday to my dad who is one of the most ethical and dependable people I know.
One of the qualities I inherited from him and my mum is the need to make sense of things in my own way.
If you have a look at the very bottom of this page, you'll see I have an Add Free Stats logo that when I click, takes me to a page where Read more:Ronald
From A to Z 2008-06-25 06:23:48 Ten days ago I dissected my relationship with Z's mum, PJ's ex. I wrote about my fondness for her as well as my acceptance of the space that divides us.
Yesterday morning, Z's mum and I were thrown into that space - the space that I had circumnavigated and justified and believed in.
I have never been out with a man who has a child before. I have never had to contend with an ex-wife or The Other
No title 2008-06-24 15:24:20 Welcome to the Land of Meg, to all you budding bloggers!
Snap! 2008-06-24 03:33:51 The best part of Lyndal Jones' show at ACCA was meeting the barista at the café in the foyer. And not just because she makes a great soy latté.
Behind the coffee machine on a stool, I noticed a spiral of rolled up knitting with two knitting needles poking out of the top. The wool was different shades of red, which is what initially caught my eye. When I asked her what she was making, the bari
What Comes Around 2008-06-22 21:05:07 We came home last night after seeing Young Werther play, to find a big bag of limes on our doorstep, delivered by our friends I and V. I went straight out again to buy a bottle of vodka so PJ could make us some caprioskas.
In my attempt to share the love, please allow me to point you in the direction of Green Energy Watch, a site that is offering two free energy saving lightbulbs to Australian
Getting a Grip 2008-06-21 22:15:10 On Friday we had another meeting at Z's school to talk with his teachers about his bad behaviour.
In my opinion, the school isn't setting enough boundaries. They are telling him what to do and what not to do without showing him the consequences of his decisions. It's as though they have forgotten he is six.
Here is Z this morning with new footy boots before he muddied them at Auskick.
Everybody was Born 2008-06-21 01:08:28 When my sister K was pregnant with one of her girls, I can't remember which one, she told me how she would walk around looking at people thinking, Everybody
was born. Everybody was once carried around in their mother's womb and was given birth to.
At the same time, my sister E was looking for a new share-house and I remember her saying that she was walking around thinking, Everybody has to slee
Wednesdays with Jo 2008-06-19 16:02:44 Every Wednesday afternoon before I started my current work contract, I would go to see Jo. Jo is 84 years-old and lives in a hostel for the elderly, five minutes from where I live.
She signed up for Computer Connections, a program that matches people with limited mobility with those who are technically minded, in Jo's case, me.
Initially she wanted me to teach her how to set up Skype and her Read more:Wednesdays
The Best Place to Dance 2008-06-19 16:02:04 One of the things I like about this video, is that the guy who made it must have spent a portion of each day looking for the best place to dance. What a great way to evaluate the world! Read more:Place
, Dance
Way to Go 2008-06-19 02:40:09 I caught the train and bus home tonight after two days' work in Melbourne.
I love public transport.
I am a member of the Public Transport User's Association and I am a member of the public who loves the random encounters you often have with other commuters, sorry, customers, as Connex calls them.
When I was teaching English in Bangkok several years ago, my parents came to visit me. It didn't
Kit and Kaboodle 2008-06-18 18:44:21 Yesterday I wrote a little about PJ's ex and my relationship to her. I have been thinking a lot about relationships and all the other people we go out with when we couple up with partners. There are their children, if they have any, which they do in my case. There are their former partners, siblings, parents, friends and associates.
Today after I picked up Z from school, PJ's mum phoned to speak
Motion Sickness 2008-06-18 18:43:55 I am about to begin a month-long contract. Usually I work on projects for a shorter time - a week at most - editing or writing content. I am looking forward to immersing myself in the work, but also have reservations.
One of the habits I have happily unlearnt during my time living away from the city is scheduling. Working full-time doesn't just mean that your job takes up the most productive Read more:Motion
, Sickness
For Del & Phyllis! 2008-06-17 05:30:59 Congratulations to all the same sex partners in California who, as of yesterday, are now legally allowed to marry each other.
It's the best international news I have heard in ages.
And congratulations for its progressiveness to the Supreme Court of California who overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage in a four-to-three decision.
Being one of four sisters, I feel I am an expert in how Read more:Phyllis
From Z to A 2008-06-16 03:47:20 Every Sunday morning at 9am, PJ and I head out to pick up Z from his mum's, 10 minutes away. In the beginning it was awkward for me - driving to the house that PJ built, and built another life in, in a world that did not yet have me in it. But as time goes on these discomforts ease, as we all come to learn.
I really like Z's mum. We give each other birthday presents and on Mother's Day, I make a
For the Love 2008-06-12 18:24:31 As a freelancer, I am always on the lookout for the next interesting project to work on. As a mortgage owner, this often means I have to say no to some great contracts and yes to ones that are a little more dull, but that offer higher remuneration.
I have recently been approached to do some work that I have had to decline. The work is great, the company is great, the people are great. But
What I Didn't See 2008-06-11 23:14:47 During my lunch break, while I was working in Melbourne, I went down to Degraves Street to get a bite to eat.
There are so many choices, so many options, so much to do and see.
There's so much excitement, so many possibilities, down every laneway.
All the shiny shops with their shiny things to buy.
On Nervousness 2008-06-11 21:57:36 I started my new contract today and felt nervous all morning. There are so many names and job roles and faces and seating arrangements and procedures and systems and passwords to remember.
But even if there weren't, I know I would still be feeling like this.
I have been here before - day one of a new job and feeling confident I can do the work but unsure how I am going to do it. This has to be
The Seed 2008-06-10 04:53:30 We sat up in bed last night eating popcorn and watching The World According to Monsanto - a frightening doco that shows how the US corporation, Monsanto, through its genetic engineering technology, is strategically destroying worldwide biodiversity and social harmony, all in the name of shareholder profits.
PJ stayed up to write a letter to premier John Brumby, urging him to see the film and
Bring on the Apocalypse 2008-07-13 15:00:01 I have just finished reading this fantastic book by UK investigative journalist and gardener, George Monbiot.
I say: Don't read this book! Don't read it if you are happy living your life in a bubble of abstraction. Don't read this book if you don't want your dearly held beliefs turned inside out.
Monbiot says: "The central mystery of the modern state is this. The necessary resources, both Read more:Apocalypse
Nooks and Crannies 2008-07-12 23:39:36 I used to shop at garage sales and op shops and markets.
I still do. But where I used to do these things to save money (I had a travel addiction I was always saving to fund), I now do more as a way of living.
I choose to live in a small community where there are no chain-stores or billboards. Not just because I am anti-consumerist, but because I am not a fan of the visual intrusion.
I have just
Considering Consideration 2008-07-12 04:12:08 Just over a month ago, I wondered how I would go working full-time. Last night on the train home from Melbourne, I was thinking about all the experiences I have had during this time. All the people I have met, all the hours I have spent travelling between home and work and back again, all the things I have learned.
Every day at 10.30, the people in my office have morning tea, provided by one of Read more:Consideration
No title 2008-07-09 23:02:31 PJ received a call about the caterers.
He is giving a paper next week at an international poetics conference at the State Library. The event is fully catered and on the forms he had to fill out, he was asked if he had any dietary requirements.
He wrote Slow Food - a term the organiser had never heard, and which had completely baffled the caterers. The caterers!
Think Fast Food, he told them,
It's Official 2008-07-08 16:28:19 Thank you to the people who told me about the article, Blogging makes you happy - it's official in The Age's 'Green Guide', from where this comes:Researchers in the US have concluded that blogging also makes bloggers better thinkers.
US neurologists Fernette and Brock Eide conducted a survey of the blogosphere and posted their results on their own site. The research began with the proposition Read more:Official
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