KnitPost - It's been a while since I posted about any WIPs, and that's largely because I haven't done any knitting for ages. In the past week I've started up again and kept on with some projects I had dropped the ball... (12:27 | 88 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Give me Red - I've developed quite a fangirl crush on Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives). I've come to watch the show regularly for little other reason that to gaze upon her, and revel in her exquisite portrayal of Martha... (12:20 | 293 Trackbacks | 2 Comments) for services to pop fandom - I've read several blogs noting similar incidences of late, and now I get to toot my own horn as well. The site is the #1 Google result for the term 'seth cohen starter pack' for this post. *wipes away a... (10:39 | 2688 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Pam Cook lecture this Thursday - Just a note for the film/history nerds: Rethinking Nostalgia:  If I Could Hold Back Time Thursday 28th April,  6.30pm Theatre A, Elizabeth Murdoch Building The University of Melbourne A pioneer of feminist film theory,  Pam Cook is one of Britain's... (22:48 | 145 Trackbacks | 3 Comments) links for 2005-04-24 - I may be a criminal but it's a victimless crime A new study by two researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, finds that sharing digital music files has no effect on CD... (00:17 | 140 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

50ft Book Meme - Nabbed from Laura, it's the meme of a thousand word nerds (or more accurately, so far, about 160 - the maths doesn't quite work out). The idea is that a list of books travels around the blogosphere, and that as... (10:52 | 2549 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)

Rejection sucks - I should just learn to stick to my own narrow little discipline, refrain from reaching into alien terrain and attempting to work the theoretic with the poetic. Or at least learn how to better pander to the nebulous themes of... (20:58)

O, please! - I know I shouldn't expend valuable give-a-shit energy on this kind of thing, but it's been bothering me all day so I've just got to acknowledge it. While fiddling with the digital TV equipment at home yesterday, I chanced upon... (15:55 | 280 Trackbacks | 3 Comments)

Hot Topic! - Le Tigre programme rage tonight and the kind folks at the ABC have made the playlist available for our perusal. Kicking off with Rock Lobster and Our Lips are Sealed is a pretty awesome start in my book, and... (10:18 | 2648 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)

links for 2005-04-14 - Vibewire.net E-Festival Global Issues/Creative Juices/Media & Democracy: online panels, discussions with a bunch of interesting humans. (tags: vibewire youth-media participation) Comic-book ad gallery BoingBoing blogs this great gallery of print ads from vintage comic books. (tags: comic-books advertising kitsch)... (00:18 | 7 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

haptic scholarship - The haptic critic, rather than place herself within the "striated space" of predetermined critical frameworks, navigates a smooth space by engaging immediately with objects and ideas and teasing out the connections immanent to them[...]I try to move along the surface... (16:51 | 15 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)

I wanna be manipuLATED - Today I was strolling through fabulously bogan Northland, contemplating buying my very first pair of jeans in something like 12 years, when over the tinny and distant in-mall speaker system shot forth that gem of eighties melodrama pop - Heart's... (20:12 | 2626 Trackbacks | 3 Comments) links for 2005-04-12 - Andrea Dworkin dies at 58 (in)famous killjoy, radical feminist activist, and apparently, lover of "outsized dungarees" kicks it. Reading her work on pornography in first year Gender Studies turned me into a pomo feminist and seriously damaged my opinion... (00:18 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Grosz in Melbourne - Events held by the Monash Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Elizabeth Grosz will give both a seminar and a free public lecture in Melbourne during April. Research seminar: Wednesday, 20 April, 3.00-5.00 pm, Room W809, Menzies Building, Monash... (14:06 | 9 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)

links for 2005-04-10 - Watcher Junior The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Buffy Studies: publishing undergrad scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, the series. A Call for Papers for the first, and later issues, on the site. (tags: buffy journal undergrad... (00:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Days of our Godless Lives - My beloved is all hepped up in that science-lovin', heathen way again. I just bet any potential offspring of ours will turn out to be baptist, nazi, meat eaters with godless pinko vegos like us for parents. My, we are... (16:16 | 75 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)

roundup - Just to get over the hump of not blogging in over a week: Sydney isn't as bad as I sometimes make out. This revelation has nought to do with the place itself which is kinda stinky, and full of communting... (12:33 | 89 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)