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  • Doll? Or just Dull?

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    I’m trying to work out what’s bugging me about Dollhouse. Apart from the whole high-tech whorehouse aspect of it all.   Okay, that does bug me, & okay, I’m several years late on Dollhouse. This is because I started watching it 3 times & found it, frankly, bland. And really the only reason I’ve succeeded…

  • Over at Galactic Chat

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    Hey, at Galactic Chat, Alisa Krasnostein and I are deep in conversation. (I was going to say we ‘chew the fat’, but couldn’t bear the inadvertent rhyming.) Pretty sure we chatted for about 2 hours. The podcast is somewhat shorter than that, but I suspect that’s because Alisa edited out all the foul language …

  • Soul making

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    “To follow Story is to under-stand the  path of  healing.  Each of our stories is a universe.  Each one of us  is living a story.  To  discover its  shape and essence is essential to  soul making.” — Deena Metzger

  • McKee & me

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    One marvellous thing I did for myself recently was buy membership of Robert McKee’s one-day Thriller seminar in Melbourne. As far back as – I think – 2004 I did a similar trip, heading to Melbourne for McKee’s Horror seminar. It was the most invigorating day of story I had that year and for possibly…

  • July, oh my

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    Hello! I know it’s not traditional to start a blog post with ‘hello’ & looking at it now, it looks just like spam. But it seemed such a long time since I’d posted that a greeting wouldn’t hurt, maybe even a re-introduction. (Though introductions are hard: the more I write, I swear the less interesting…

  • Now it can be said: Ishtar news!

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    She’s here, and she is beautiful! Gilgamesh Press has released the Ishtar cover for their tri-novella collection, to be launched this November. Stories by Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks, Deborah Biancotti. Edited by Amanda Pillar & K.V. Taylor. (Edit: Cover by Amanda Pillar.) I cannot WAIT to see Ishtar launched upon the world.

  • Spineless Wonderful

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    Spineless Wonders is a handsome website that ‘stands up for Australian short stories’! It’s new, so there’s not a lot of content, but there is a lot of promise. There’s a cool article about the history of the Oz short story. Interesting to hear about the shift from ‘bush stories’ to urban stories. (Ahhhh, bush…

  • What I learned today

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    I learned that if you take a pizza box on public transport and then walk it the 15 minutes it takes to get from the station to your home, you get a lot more smiles than if you weren’t carrying a pizza box.

  • Kitsch is

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    Art is demolition; kitsch is the corpse left when art loses its anger. — Robert Stoller

  • Robert McKee in Oz

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    Robert McKee’s last tour of Oz a couple years ago was meant to be his LAST tour of Oz for good. But somehow he’s back & tour organisers, Epiphany Artists, have a special on tickets to his Sydney Story seminar or Melbourne ‘genre’ seminars until 28-February. For those of us who endured the Chauvel last time (you…