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The ‘long white sigh’: some gen-x nostalgia
On the bus this morning, thanks to the magic of the iPod’s otherwise suspiciously un-random seeming shuffle mode: The Clouds’ song ‘Pocket’, from their 1991 album Penny Century. This is what it sounds like, and these are the lyrics: Spending all my long days Searching for a job to do Any two-bit job that pays…
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5 things you didn’t know about me
yes, we all know memes are lame, but Jeremy has tagged me, so, since we’re in holiday mode… 1. When I was a kid we had a small hobby farm just outside of town, where Dad ran about 30 head of Hereford cattle. We kept horses as well, and sometimes took them on family holidays…
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alternate existence
I don’t know where I’ve been for the last 3 months (well, yes, of course I do – Thesis Hell), but I seem to have come out the other side. It might be that some of the pressure is off, or the realisation this is the only holiday I’m going to get until this time…
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I met the Whitlams!
And not the band either. Considering the anaemic, socially conservative mess that is the Australian Labor Party today, and the fact that Gough is probably a bit over the whole running the country thing, I think we should start a Margaret for PM Campaign.
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transit point
The weather turned cooler this morning: autumn is finally here. Thank you, god. Every year, this transition works on me like the beginning of spring does on normal people – it’s the moment when fogginess and torpor give way to bright clarity. This time last year I was doing my PhD confirmation and getting ready…
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the life you lead
I’ve had this cartoon (on a birthday card) pinned up somewhere in every office or study i’ve occupied since 1994, when a dear friend gave it to me. I saw it this morning and realised that at some point in the recent past, without my noticing, it began to make sense to me the other…
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narcissistic filler
Four jobs I’ve had Flute choir conductor Polyphonic ringtones composer Selling crappy toys door-to-door in industrial estates, on commission (during the recession we had to have, which seems to have lasted for my entire life) Barmaid (at which I was a complete and abject failure) Four movies I can watch over and over Wild at…
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update from abroad
After a lovely, wintry European break, I’m now into the fieldwork I’m doing in the UK as part of my PhD. Spent an interesting day with the capture wales team at BBC Wales, as well as meeting some participants from canllaw online, who will be participating in the train-the-trainers digital storytelling workshop that I’m observing…
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sabbatical
I’m off to the northern hemisphere tomorrow for a good hit of actual holiday-type activities, before my patchwork of fieldwork starts and I hit the digital storytelling and interviewing and thick description slopes. Back in Brisbane at the end of January. Everyone, have a lovely break, and I’ll try to remember to blog a little…
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T-Shirt Stoushing
Have I invented a meme? Will fame and fortune finally be mine? We all know that’s less than likely, but my slightly childish (and little-understood) substitution of a t-shirt design in the place of rational debate about identities and television prompted Mark to appropriate the idea as a new weapon in “blog stoushing”, and it…