Tomorrow is the last day of Movember. So for those of you who haven’t donated – my membership is 97300 – you have 24 hours to raise money for a very worthy cause. So far, I’ve raised $229 and would like to get it to $300. But, just so you know the money is going …
Monthly Archive: November 2007
Nov 27
Beowulf – The IMAX Experience
Due to having friends in high places, I had the opportunity of seeing the Premiere of Beowulf last night at IMAX. And it was great. The film sags a little in the middle, but, it’s still a cracking good story with Beowulf played as a flawed hero who succumbs to his own sense of pride …
Nov 25
The Back Page of the Sunday Herald Sun…
… has this glorious, full colour picture of Matthew Kruezer – Carlton’s No 1 draft pick – standing beside Chris Judd and Nick Stevens. It’s a Carlton Football fans fantasy come true.
Nov 24
Bye Bye Mr Howard
Labor have won… Howard is gone (both as the leader and possibly as an MP…. his seat is on a knifes edge)… Costello is eating down them sour grapes… and Jules and I are very, very happy. It’s good to see that climate change meant something to people in this election, more than tax cuts …
Nov 22
Day 22 of the mo
After long day at work, it was nice to spend some time with mates at Polly on Brunswick Street. girliejones is in town, and it was brilliant to meet her for the first time. I tried to convince her to move to Melbourne – not sure it worked though. Anywho, the mo continues …
Nov 18
Q&A – A Star Trek Novel by Keith R.A. De Candido
You know, when you spend a good chunk of the year reading Chuck Palahniuk novels, you need something light and breezy to let your mind rest. Normally, I’d read a Doctor Who novel. But I was in my local SF bookstore (Slow Glass) and I saw Q&A (a Star Trek Next Gen novel) by Keith …
Nov 14
The mo groweth
I really should have been done this last week. But here are two gorgeous images showing the weekly development of the mo. The first photo was taken up at Mornington on Melbourne Cup Day. I’d been growing the mo for 6 days. As you can see, it’s sort of an orangey, brown blur. Not very …
Nov 07
My talk tonight
As has been pointed out to me, I should have probably advertised this earlier… Anywho, if you live in Melbourne, come down to the Carlton Library on Rathdowne Street at 8:00 to hear my talk on the strange and wonderful world of Chuck Palahniuk. Most of you know him as the author of Fight Club. …
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