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Sunday 5 October, 2008

Stage Mother

Yesterday I had an article in the Age about human-animal relationships. The hope is that the photo accompanying the article, taken by Virginia, (not the photo below) will make Bird the star we always knew she'd be.

Wilson, however, is quite cross about the situation.

Friday 26 September, 2008

iwantsanotherfinalwin

I was in Sydney for last week's preliminary final and while all my Sydney friends were drinking in the courtyard of The Duck and the something or other, (and, to add to the general Duckiness, one of those friends was Ampersand Duck)I was in the bar, standing, bizzarely, beside Tim Rogers, watching the Cats play the Dogs. Was relieved to get back to Melbourne where they take these things seriously. Take the decorations in Federation Square, where I was last night for the launch of Bogan Pride which I urge you to watch when it begins on Monday October 6 on SBS.

Then, this morning, I went to my local, which has turned into somewhat of an enemy camp because Kate is a mad Hawks fan (and lover of Chance).

And yes, as these photos reveal, I've got myself an iphone. Love it.

All I can say is at least I live in a city that has it's priorities right. GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday 22 September, 2008

Meme

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair ... just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

Sep 06

100th

Last Friday night I went to the last match of the round between Hawthorn and Carlton (it was a family thing). The scene after Buddy Franklin kicked his 100th goal was fantastic....More»

Aug 21

The final product

This was my first proof. It took about 5 hours to set and then, behold! I had a forme with perfect tension (tension is very important in letterpress printing. In fact there is so much talk about taut formes...More»

Aug 20

Hoppity goes through the press

First layer of colour and type being fed through the Vandercook. Being proofed. Next layer of type in the Chase (and those are Carolyn's, not Virginia's hands). To see the final result, visit Virginia's flickr page....More»

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On November 3 I'm taking part in a day long publishing forum Varuna is putting on in the Blue Mountains. If you're interested, come along.

Well that's shit. Not only did Geelong lose the grand final (after winning every game bar one the entire year) but I woke up to find one of my favourite actors, Paul Newman had died.

This description of questions that were asked of me and my panelists at the Melbourne Writers Festival a few weeks ago is pretty spot on.

There is an article in today's age on The Jackie Winter Group which is run by Jeremy Wortsman, who is one half of Chase & Galley the guys who designed the new Meanjin. There was a (luke warm) review of that in A2 as well, but I can't find a link.

One of the writers I most enjoyed meeting at the Melbourne Writers Festivals was David Francis author of Stray Dog Winter.