May 1, 2008

Reading: Nasrin Alavi - We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi - we are iran

Reading: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

john steinbeck - of mice and men

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March 29, 2008

swanhilda is a punk

Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide's most wild and...

March 21, 2008

Reading: Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilisation

michel foucault - madness and civilisation

March 6, 2008

Reading: Afghanistan - Louis Dupree

afghanistan - louis dupree

February 25, 2008

Reading: Susan Mann - The Talented Women of the Zhang Family

susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family

February 12, 2008

sorry

“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their...

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February 8, 2008

Reading: Iain M. Banks - Matter

iain m. banks - matter

February 5, 2008

waiting at the train station

Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in...

February 4, 2008

新年快乐!﹣hoping the rats are warm on the trains

This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from...

February 1, 2008

reading: william gibson & bruce sterling - the difference engine

william gibson + bruce sterling - the difference engine

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

January 26, 2008

Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives

charles stross - the atrocity archives

Reading: Charles Stross – Toast

charles stross - toast

January 23, 2008

Blog for Choice day

Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on...

December 30, 2007

Reading: Iain Banks - The Business (4th time)

iain banks - the business

December 11, 2007

Reading: Charles Stross – Jennifer Morgue

charles stross - the jennifer morgue

December 9, 2007

Reading: Norman Page - Auden and Isherwood - The Berlin Years

norman page - auden and isherwood - the berlin years

November 22, 2007

kunst and the greens

Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique...

November 18, 2007

november 20

This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it's been a...

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...

November 2, 2007

twiddling of thumbs

For a couple of years now, every time I use my credit cards I look at them and think, "Oh...

October 14, 2007

reading: judith butler – undoing gender

judith butler – undoing gender

reading: william gibson – spook country

william gibson - spook country

October 10, 2007

mediocrity

Due to the content of my Ignition 7 - Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with...

July 3, 2007

Housewives on Fire

A conversation before the show: girl-a, "wanna sit in the front row?", girl-b, "nah I don't wanna be that close...

June 1, 2007

恭喜天安门

tiananmen square june 1989

May 27, 2007

pre-breakfast tranny blogging

I'm really, really, really trying to blog more often but dialup connection that drops out every few minutes and a...

April 6, 2007

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was...

March 18, 2007

the end of dance writing

Around the time I was thinking about i want your dance, I stumbled across this excellent article on ImPulsTanz by...

March 11, 2007

lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …

A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now...

March 8, 2007

… and death

Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made...

March 7, 2007

jean baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard died. I'm so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in...

March 5, 2007

everything that has been said before about dance

Lining the walls of Chunky Move's foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are the...

March 3, 2007

lucky?

Revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists caused Stephanie's Pillowbook to write about Labels, and then some Explanations, and I was...

February 11, 2007

sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)

What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the...

February 10, 2007

revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists

I wrote the following post in Guangzhou mid-last year after going on a bender with Michael, the Principal Bassoonist in...

February 1, 2007

god made you a boy

After the tranny-medical adventures I had yesterday, I probably shouldn't even be going anywhere near reading an article like this...

January 11, 2007

我不知道我是什么性别

Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out...

January 8, 2007

miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule

Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...

January 2, 2007

it's all about the money #2

He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that...

December 19, 2006

it's all about the money

Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical...

December 10, 2006

stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week

Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm...

December 5, 2006

super-condom tranny

I don't really want to be 'tranny activist' and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately...

December 2, 2006

some stuff i read this week

Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl...

yeah, that's what i think too

MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding...

December 1, 2006

more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project

A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria...

November 28, 2006

Small Arts Sector Research Project

For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please...

November 27, 2006

fuck.dog

Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda...

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November 22, 2006

liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves

I can't quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid...

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November 17, 2006

first against the wall etc …

At first I wasn't going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation...

November 9, 2006

shit if this is gonna' be that kind of party

Actually it took longer than the time Rumsfeld used to announce he was bailing out of the White House to...

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November 4, 2006

la mama - does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?

A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades...

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October 30, 2006

some new blogs

About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting "contemporary dance" Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I...

October 26, 2006

i shit on ya - sheik taj aldin

Someone recently said about a United States school kid who got hauled up by the FBI for sedition over a...

October 21, 2006

what i've been reading today

Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes...

October 16, 2006

a nature hike through the book of revelations

Sunday morning I arrived in Melbourne after three weeks in Adelaide, my fifth domestic flight since June and one of...

October 13, 2006

shooting them like rats, dogs

A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre...

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October 8, 2006