Pimp your poetry (and rock your frocks)

I felt like getting frocked up last night, so I decked myself out in various glad rags and headed over to the Voiceworks issue launch at Dante’s. Voiceworks is marvelous, by the way, and you should go out right now and buy a copy, not least because I have a fair chunk of poetry in [...]

Rain

There’s a lot of waxing lyrical about how fresh and clean the rain makes everything seem, but to me it always seems to grab hold of sour odours and fling them into the air, brandishing cigarette smoke and steaming up off the suface of small lakes of soft drink and stale piss. At the station this morning, the rubbish blooming [...]

Review: Step up 2 The Streets

Yes, really. After a shitful week an equally shitful dance movie can make everything seem okay again. Mary K and I were rather in need of cheering up, so we met for dumplings and tequila, and then squashed ourselves into a Hoyts theatre full of teenagers and prepared for some upliftingly awful badness.
It didn’t disappoint. [...]

Books books books

I figured out today that in the last week and a half I have spent more than two hundred dollars on second-hand, discounted and school-related books. How the fuck does that happen? Clearly I have some sort of compulsion. It would be exhausting and no doubt rather boring for me to catalogue every purchase, but [...]

Public Transport Etiquette: A Refresher Course

Dear public transport user,
No doubt you, in your daily interactions, have become acquainted with the notion of etiquette. Etiquette is a set of mutual politenesses that we who have signed the social contract deem desirable to extend to one another, in the hopes of facilitating pleasant social relations and avoiding stress, anxiety, and disharmony in [...]

Typography is sex

So I just spent the afternoon at the Melbourne Printing Museum, a typography nerd’s wet dream. In a curious didactic move, I have decided that everyone even vaguely interested in typesetting, publishing or graphic design must spend at least one day there. I am drafting this into the constitution as we speak.
So much! So much [...]

All cartography, all the time

So apparently my mum has been telling people, very proudly, that her daughter works at the Daily Planet. Close, but no cigar, ma. It’s amusing and oddly satisfying to imagine the looks she must have been getting, especially as this information was offered in conjunction with the fact that I would soon be going back [...]

A weekend of unexpected delights

I had nothing planned this weekend, which was nice in and of itself, and I had fancied a couple of days lounging about, reading novels perhaps, and baking things. I did in fact bake a lemon cake, but very little lounging was achieved. Instead I spent most of my time gallivanting about town with this [...]