Sunday 13 July, 2008
Inside out
There was something about the trees and some other plants in the rainforest that looked human to me. Well, the inside of humans, really. Intestinal. Skeletal.
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Wednesday 9 July, 2008
Design
Virginia and I have just returned from 2 weeks in north QLD. One day we went for a walk to Kennedy Bay, just south of Mission Beach. All I could see were beautiful patterns - much of it courtesy of crabs - everywhere. Made me want to be a fabric designer.
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Thursday 19 June, 2008
Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing
This festival looks good - as does the four-day conference which precedes it. I'll be appearing onthe Sunday afternoon, with Robert Dessaix.
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Jun 13
Bird Reviews
About 10 days ago Bird was launched. It was fabulous. About 120 people came. Jane Gleeson-White, a writer and friend from Sydney flew down just to launch me which was an exceptionally nice thing to do. Virginia took photos. You'll...More»
May 29
Two of my favorite things
A present from Michelle and Gail. You see? Even cat scarves like to lie in the sun. This was a gift from Virginia....More»
May 22
Scary mouth
I use to be too frightened to walk through the Luna Park mouth in Sydney or in Melbourne. One of my strongest memories as a small girl living in Sydney (I was 4 or so) was catching a ferry which...More»
Links
Once again Sorrow at Sills Bend provides superlative commentary - this time on the Pope's visit.
I love the semicolon. 'All journalists can cop to this: The semicolon allows woozy clauses to lean on each other like drunks for support.'
Audrey Apple's plot summary of Sex in the City is AWESOME.
The perils of categorisation - here is the LA public library's categorisation of Geography. sigh
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is being turned into a film by an Australian director, John Hillcoat, and starring an Australian boy, Kodi Smit-McPhee.
