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  • Drowned in red wine

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    I love a good conspiracy theory, & here’s one I’ve never come across before: Jimi Hendrix killed by his manager, Michael Jeffrey. Actually, it’s probably wrong to call this a ‘good’ conspiracy. Good conspiracies don’t end up with wildly talented musicians dead. Remember that whole Paul McCartney is dead conspiracy theory? Now, that’s a good…

  • Serialised novels: Updated

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    With some shows, the writers have even engaged in such discussions and it’s possible the reactions of viewers have influenced future episodes. (Although not always: Buffy’s creator Joss Whedon said to his fans, “I’m not giving you what you want – I’m giving you what you need.”) We’ve heard TV types say that ‘each week…

  • Red wall, drying

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    Sydney’s cold, wet weather caused some headaches for the recent home improvements at casa deborahb: most notably for the loungeroom, where the final wall of the house refused to dry. Here it is under a fan, as per the instructions of the army of Ukrainian painters: I nickname this photo, ‘Ah-choo‘. The paint peeled off…

  • Success & the world

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    Reading today about how Angelina Jolie is currently the world’s most influential celebrity (& let’s not pause to wonder what she’s influencing, exactly — maybe people really are doing more about refugees now. Or maybe they’re just copying her hairstyle) leads me to wonder: Does the world seem smaller when you have that much power?…

  • Lost & found

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    A moment of early-morning panic today when I couldn’t find my marvellous new phone (with the camera) — currently the only item I really love. But then I remembered: it was plugged into my computer. (What’s next, wireless technology?!) So I’ll still be able to take it on my daily adventures to places like the…

  • Dawn of a new era

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    I’ve never been considered ‘an early adopter’, & so it’s only THIS year that I’ve gotten me one of them new-fangled phones with the cameras in them. (What’s next? Microwaves with clocks?!) It’s not a great camera, particularly in low light, but one thing it does have: portability. In today’s unexpected adventures, a photo of…

  • “For what nation can advance with its tongue torn out?”

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    Richard Flanagan addresses the Sydney Writers Festival on the importance of protecting the Australian publishing industry against the rhetoric of the ‘parallel importation, cheaper books’ argument.

  • Reading up

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    Lately I’m loving the whatwasthatbook group on lj. Not only for its ability to find lost books (largely kids’ books, but also for the conversation style of its questions. See, for example: I read this book while I was in late elementary school – probably fifth or sixth grade (around 1999). I found it in…

  • Gilgamesh as rooster

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    Dipping into the internet to go over the stories of Gilgamesh & Ishtar (for the 2010 Gilgamesh Press 3-novella publication by Red Hot Bad), I came across this piece of weirdness: The Goat Rope’s review of Gilgamesh in a week, as represented by household animals. Scroll past the ‘canine film critic’s review of The Godfather’…

  • Note to the Britain’s Got Talent team

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    Dear Britain’s Got Talent Team, I will totally buy this woman’s album. What a cheeky, modest, confident display of talent. And to think she got all the way to 47 (unemployed, ‘but I’m still looking’) without the kind of fame that is likely about to descend upon her. I may break with tradition & actually…