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This morning I received several emails on behalf of an artist (who I won’t name since I don’t think it’s all her fault) spruiking her new album. Previously I had seen an indication via her twitter feed of some tracks being available and I’d tried and failed to access them via email several times. While I finally succeeded, the result… Read more →

“Dear” fellow staff member… Please don’t just reply to an old email from days ago with unrelated subject matter. You wouldn’t phone me up to ostensibly talk about fish and then only talk about nothing but the property market and you wouldn’t write a document entitled “A Cricketing Superstar” that only mentioned Shane Warne, so why the fuck do you… Read more →

On the Glebe foreshore shared path, a jogger coming towards me called out that I needed to have my lights when I was riding on a walking path. I replied that they were on, at which point his eyes focused on the lights staring him in the face and he retorted "well, you shouldn't be on a walking path". I… Read more →

So I wrote something on my blog about the breaking the Fourth Wall… Embedded Link Shit’s about to get real for the Bennet sisters So I mentioned a while back that I’ve been following the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice – The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Since Christmas we’ve seen the start of the story arc … Google+: View post… Read more →

Not me – a courier that hailed me this morning! Apparently he's from Penrith and making a delivery to Marrickville, and needed directions to Philpott Street.  All he had was the address , and a recollection of the customer showing him the location on a map, but no map with him. WTF? He said that his children have a smartphone… Read more →

A couple of kilometers before the end, my front gear cable snapped. Luckily it happened as I was in low gear and about to move to the middle chain-ring, so I didn't have to push 30kg up any hills. As it was I had to walk up Lavertey's Gap and as well as the hill out of Federal on the… Read more →

This is a wonderful rant that resonates with me quite a bit. The same generation that, 40 years ago, were pushing social change on all levels, – inventing new music and art and rejecting the stifling economic and cultural frameworks of their parents – is now the dog in the manger that refuses to allow the same freedoms that it… Read more →

When I saw the photo of Pell holding up his book of protocols, I knew it was going to made fun of. There's some serious win here. Embedded Link Cardinal George Pell’s new book of Protocols Cardinal George Pell with a booklet detailing the Catholic Church’s protocols for dealing with allegations of sexual abuse. The protocol states that if priests… Read more →

Danya and I have just seen the movie taken from the latest Superstar production in London with Tim Minchin. I'm quite jealous of James for having had the chance to see it in person, but you get a good sense of occasion from the movie. As the opening theme started I felt the same chills on my spine as I… Read more →