Having a laptop and cable internet makes life easier, because apart from all the obvious stuff like being always on and being able to cart my whole life around with me, I can work from home when I need to write (that is, if I don’t have to teach or go to meetings). One of…

So last night saw me at the opening of Brisbane’s Bollywood Masala film festival at the Dendy, which kicked off with the very well-known Main Hoon Na. I ask you, what more could you want in a Bollywood film – witty, self-referential, and seething with intertextuality, and packed to the rafters with military heroes, action-adventure,…

It’s invisible most of the time (or it just feels like sociality), and you only remember it’s there when you suddenly need it. This is not me, but some totally random Stranger Jean, who carelessly left this lying around (or, Dan and/or Maryann left it lying around) to be found by an equally random stranger.…

This kind of reads like one of those spamquotes that the purveyours of levitra were flooding my blog with a while back. But it’s a great quote all the same, and coming from one of my favourite utilitarians, it’s a hint towards proof that pragmatism can coexist with creative dissonance and the will to individuality:…

Well the grass is mowed at my place, we’re stocked up on culinary cliches, we have cold beer (good, because it’s HOT) and the right kind of DVDs (i.e. the direct inverse of the scary plastic christmas cheer that Television insists we must want), I’m armed with damien rice and jeanette winterson thanks to a…

I need to write about the digital storytelling workshop I just finished, working with both young and very much older people on stories about the history of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village (most of which used to be a bloody big army parade ground). I also need to write about the CSAA conference, which has…

Now that disbelieving horror has given way to grief, shame, but not quite yet anger… I had a nice day out on the water, far away from my fellow Australians, over half of whom voted, not only to keep the current government, but also to strengthen their hold over the Senate into a vice-like grip.…

I don’t know what to say about this. So I’m off to Moreton Island, to get out of the suburbs and wash away the lingering stench of yesterday’s events.

Ha! I knew it… You are 16% geek OK, so maybe you ain’t a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you’re probably a pretty…