Archive for June, 2007
Everbody go ‘wheeeee!’ again
Because I have, in my grubby little paws, two tickets to go see the Cure in August. I wasn’t expecting the line outside the shop, and it was bloody cold but hey, people have endured worse to get tickets so I figure I lucked out. I almost didn’t get floor tickets but some poor sods […]
An irrational culture of power
I’m a little late with this, but another of Ilhan’s articles appeared in Dawn over the weekend. It focuses on “one cause and one effect” of the “crisis of the state of Pakistan” and basically tries to explain what it is about Pakistan’s ‘leaders’ that prevent them from acutally doing anything worthwhile with the country.
Wheee!
So my thesis is due yesterday and I’m busy reading and writing and editing. But all with dopey grin on my face because THE CURE IS COMING TO MELBOURNE. August 12 at the Rod Laver Arena. Tickets go on sale this Friday. I am beyond elated.
Globetrotting
After all that schlepping from country to country, you’d think I’d have covered more ground. This can only mean one thing. Must Travel More.
The gorgeous Stephen Fry
Being gorgeous
Talking about Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Vincent Price
And laughing at people’s misfortunes
And a bit on language that my Writing the Unconscious classmates will probably appreciate
And this from the older, wiser me. Oh dear.More videos
Five hundred years of women in art. Images morphing into one another. And they’re quite similar until the last few.
Bye, bye, unconscious
Lo! ‘Tis done! My last assignment has been handed in and I am free to dip my aching fingertips in some warm, salty water. Seriously, they’re getting all funny looking from all the typing I’ve been doing. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Which I am, really. Next week, in fact, I’ll be a whole […]
The realist interviewed
Oh this is exciting. Dawn interviewed my baby brother author Ilhan Niaz for its weekly ‘Books and Authors’ supplement. Read the interview here.
Ilhan’s description of the book:
“The first chapters of the book deal with the subcontinent and describe the major empires that ruled the region. I started with the Harappan civilisation, moving on to the Guptas, […]Because I have other things to do
I’m going to voluteer to be tagged by Penni. So answers to the follwing questions:
1. Four of my favourite jobs
2. Four of my favourite local places
3. Four of my favourite foods
4. Four of my favourite international places
5. Four names of people I am tagging
Favourite jobsTeaching/tutoring, particularly the creative writing tutoring I got to do this […]