September 2009

New Book Project Announced!

September 30, 2009

This is a big day, people. Big for me, at least. I’ve been thinking of this project (cooking it up, deliberating the pros and cons, anticipating feedback – good and negative) for almost a year now. Submissions will be open up until 31st December, so there will be a far bit of time for me [...]

A second week of school holidays and the unparalleled joys of time and freedom.

September 28, 2009

Yeah. I wish. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying not having to rush around to get the kids off to preschool every other day and then getting back down there for pickups. And, actually, I like how mysteriously – and someone might have to explain to me why – there is next to no traffic [...]

Sunday Beauty: ‘Gossamer’

September 27, 2009

I’m writing a poem at the moment that has the word ‘gossamer’ in it. I wondered what Flickr had to offer for someone doing a Creative Commons search for it. Here are some examples below. The links back to their sources should be embedded within the images (tell me if they aren’t working):

Win a 3GS 16GB iPhone ($879 value) – LAST CHANCE

September 25, 2009

Remember, Aussies, my competition to win the iPhone ends tonight. Click here for details on how to enter.

This is what parenting feels like

September 24, 2009

This quote has been going through my head a lot lately: I’m out here for you! You don’t know what it’s like to be me out here for you. It is an up-at-dawn pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about! Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) He may have been talking there about [...]

The Royal Melbourne Show in pictures

September 23, 2009

It was one of those choices I daresay I’ll be faced with for some time to come: do I go to a family oriented event, or stay home and do some work? In times past I nearly always chose the former. Not this year – this year I begged off going to the Show and [...]

Interpretations

September 22, 2009

It was the glasses, or so I thought. How otherwise could the five dollar movie ticket increase be justified on top of what are ordinarily expensive prices? But we all put them on once we sat down, and as the lights dimmed and the 3D trailer came on, there we were, an audience of Buddy [...]

What Adam and I are reading, late-September

September 21, 2009

Here’s my pile. Yes, it’s very small this week. It needs supplementing. This is why I’m including Adam’s: Wait, one of these is technically mine. I borrowed the Kim Stanley Robinson after I read his fantastic article in the Guardian, angry that science fiction is an underrated genre. Adam thumped his fist to his chest for that. [...]

The constant surprise of rain*

September 18, 2009

There was a wedding in Manly on Wednesday. If you happened to be walking past Shelly Beach at 4.30pm, as many people were, with their dogs or with a baby in a stroller, you would’ve witnessed two people exchanging their vows before their friends and family as the sun faded in the west. Adam and I [...]