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  • Lines in the sand. Or, in the dirt.

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    When is it self-indulgence & when would you call it courage? When do you go from uncompromising to obscurantist, from individual to irrelevant, from subverting the dominant paradigm, to wilfully antagonistic? I saw ‘Yes’ the other night at the Syd Film Festival, a film written/directed by Sally Potter starring Joan Allen and Sam Neil, delivered…

  • Things best left unknown

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    I’m blocked. I was reading this book, quite happily — well, not *quite* happily, that’s the problem, that’s why I slowed, stopped, looked around. And when I looked around I became — — blocked — — unable to continue with confidence. It was weird, but to start from the beginning: when I was, what, 19,…

  • And further to that last post on beauty

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    Check out body_impolitic: “They own the mass imagery. They have a lock on what you see, until and unless you are willing to cast your eyes farther. And you can talk and write about body image until you’re blue in the face, but if you aren’t showing images, you aren’t doing squat. If you aren’t…

  • Sugar and spice

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    Ditmar results announced: congratulations to all who won & all who were nominated! What she sez: Yay, Justine Larbalestier, for poking holes in that whole ‘woe is me, it’s just not the same around here since the golden age ended’ rubbish some people go on with. Please. I hate that shit. The best chance we…

  • Today

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    Today had to buy a card for a friend in palliative care (ie. the care you get when there’s not a lot more care to give) & I went into the newsagency looking for something cheerful on the outside & blank on the inside. Like a lot of people I’ve met who work in advertising.…

  • ‘How can you wake from a nightmare if you can’t sleep?’

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    Maybe if I’d heard the tagline for ‘The Machinist’ (above — & yes, it’s that film where Christian Bale looks as malnourished as a POW) before I saw the movie, I would’ve understood it more. Because that’s the thing…

  • Directing traffic

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    wen_spencer is writing some really smart posts on writing. Go read her, writer-types. She is smart.

  • Femininity: Define

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    From feminist_otd: “The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.” — Katherine Graham, journalist, publisher of the Washington Post. I’ve heard it said that Lucille Ball, despite being in charge of a hugely successful TV production…

  • What I’m doing lately: Too much, & none of it translates to interesting LJ content

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    I was composing an entirely different entry in my head, but it’s 1:26am & way too late to be getting into what I was going to be waffling about. I only mention it here because my composition began like this: I’m born –. It was then I realised how late it was. ‘I’m born’. Good…

  • Wow, I want this guy to draw MY monsters!

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    Thanks, boingboing. http://www.themonsterengine.com/art.html