February 2012
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Download This Show | Radio National →
Did a guest spot on Marc’s new radio tech show on RN. Click the link to listen to me talking about the internet, on the internet.
And yes, I think Twitter’s proposed censorship measures are good; the ultimate Streisand effect.
January 2012
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In The KISS Navy: The Non-lethal Comforts of a...
Everyone I know is full of helpful warnings and advice before I leave Sydney, as though I were setting sail on the voyage of the damned: don’t ever go anywhere alone. Don’t accept drinks from strangers. Don’t get drunk on the deck. In fact, just don’t drink. Definitely don’t do any drugs. Don’t take anyone back to your room. Don’t give out your room number. Don’t catch a cab in the Bahamas...
December 2011
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Longreads: Elmo Keep: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 →
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Elmo Keep is a writer who has written for The Hairpin, and other places.
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The Tetris Effect — Justin Wolfe, The Awl
There really isn’t a way to talk about this without spoiling the reveals. Just read it, whether you understand gaming or not, it doesn’t matter: If you don’t,…
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20 Years After Achtung Baby | The Awl
But “With or Without You” is not even subtle in its imagery. It’s up there in its mass misinterpretation with “Born In The USA.” This is not a love song, it’s a song about bondage.
That’s right, U2 write kinky tunes about S&M. TRUTH EXPOSE at the Awl.
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You’re Not An Emerging Writer Unless You’ve... →
Some might argue that it is not the job of the country’s premier arts body to fund journalism — not even the literary, creative non-fiction kind — because it pales next to fiction as a literary art. I would disagree with that, obviously, as I am not a fiction writer. But funding for that kind of journalism hardly comes from within the journalism industry itself, awash with commercial publications...
November 2011
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Troll Me Once, Shame On You. Troll Me Twice... →
Here are the cliffnotes: people are idiots, sometimes, on the internet. Unbelievably galling idiots. Men sledge other men, men harass and demean women, women harass and threaten other women, and women bully men. This is the sad fact of our nature as proved over and over by history’s greatest ongoing social experiment, the world wide web. This tendency for people to be disengaged from their...
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A *Very* Informal Chat With Geoff Barrow of... →
I wanted to ask you how the [charity] soccer game turned out that you guys played a couple of weekends ago?
Yeah, it was really good. We raised a lot of money for the childrens’ hospice and stuff, and Daddy G, Roni Size played and a few proper football legends were there, and the weirdest thing: Kelsey Grammer was there.
No way. Frasier was there?!
Frasier was there.
Did he score a goal?
No,...
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Read All About It →
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Featured Longreader: Writer Elmo Keep. See her story picks from Wired, Foreign Policy, The Hairpin and more on her #longreads page.
October 2011
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Personal Bests | The Hairpin →
Vincent D’Onofrio was, for a lot of this time, sitting in a chair on the stage which is very tall because he is kind of a giant. He was wearing scruffy black jeans, old sneakers, and a black collared shirt, which, because of the way he was sitting, was popped open a little in the place that reveals a person’s bellybutton and my mind strayed a minute to wondering about if there is and...
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When Motley Crüe were sad and terrible.
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September 2011
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JURASSIC LOUNGE: ACTS OF KINDNESS AND OTHER...
I’ll be reading at this, with a bunch of really talented other people. If you’d like to be there, do book! It’s next Tuesday night, September 20. I will reading a serious thing! It won’t be funny, at all! Seriously, it won’t be, but don’t be deterred. Right?
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Six Minutes With Orlando Bloom
Orlando Bloom has a cold. So he says, no hand-shaking, please. Okey doke. Press junkets must be such incredibly dull things, dealing with a rotisserie chicken line of journalists, all trying to make things zany and fun for you. Like “Could you pose with this fake moustache? Because, haha! Musketeers!” So awful. One must only console oneself with the thought of one’s millions of dollars and A-list...
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Margaret Cho: Sydney Opera House
“We get it!” said my date in mock-exasperation, “YOU LIKE SEX!”
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Meanjin Relaunches →
And it is quite glorious! They are in the process of making everything ever published in the journal available through the site. You should also read this piece by Lorelei Vashti while you are there.
August 2011
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Crowdfunding For Writers →
What is says on the box!
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Marieke Hardy Has Written A Memoir
You’ll Be Sorry also manages also to be really, very stupid-funny, quite a lot of the time. “This is one of the most intensely obnoxious sentences I have ever written in my life,” Hardy recalls in a chapter detailing her dark past as a person who diligently wrote letters to companies like the unfortunately singled-out cranberry juice maker Ocean Spray. “And I once wrote a feature film called...
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Look Inside My Braaaaaaaaaaaaaains. →
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Are Coldplay the finest purveyors of the worst...
They are the IKEA flatpack of pop.
(This, the original and the best.)
July 2011
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Two Teams of Dickheads Debate: "Women Are Not...
It is my very great pleasure to be adjudicating this. Are women funny? Of course not! Sexy bookings hotline now open.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I Am Actually Doing Now →
Wow.
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Crowd-funding My Journalism
Sometimes I wonder who’s reading this. Noone? Five people? Maybe someone? Anyway, this KISS Kruise is a thing that is really happening, and in the services of my book on KISS, I’m hoping to get over there to cover it (and to write the second installment of this.) So! I am hoping to pony up the cash this way, and as you can read in the funding plan, if I do turn a profit after the...
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Gimcrack Journalism: Outsourcing, Axing and the...
Ampersand Magazine is presenting Future Human, bringing it over from London to Sydney. Event details and booking numbers are here. It’s this Thursday night. Curated by Eddie Sharp, I’ll be joined by Peter Atkinson (Pagemasters) Peter Smith (Financial Times) and Richard Ackland, dissecting the future(!) of print journalism. Roll on up and get your journalisms!
Also! Heretofore...
June 2011
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All The Best: Late Night Library Reading on FBi...
One time, me, the stupid-talented Eddie Sharp, Vanessa Berry, and Briohny Doyle read some stories about libraries, in a library, at nighttime. It streams live on download it from All the Best on FBi here. tomorrow at 10am.
NB: It was sadly not in the library pictured. Where I would like to go, regardless.
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I Have Some Memories of Bret Easton Ellis
I don’t know exactly what I was hoping to find the book to be about. I try to imagine what my father would have made of it, why he didn’t hold on to his copy. It is not, clearly, anything about my failing to meet him at the bar where he died, waiting for me, and wanting to tell me something.
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The Cure Live At The Sydney Opera House
UPDATE: LINK WORKS NOW! GREATEST JOB, ELMO!!
“Some things are beyond review,” Jon says. “The band being there is almost irrelevant. It’s about nostalgia, it’s about who you were at that time in your life. The experience is not outside you, it’s happening inside. But I sent you some notes.”
May 2011
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Watch A piece Kirsten and I produced for the show, with a lot of support from our producer, Andy Nehl. On this topic, Clem and Mel have both written excellent pieces recently.
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Some Notes on Tumblr
There was a curated exhibition of Tumblr galleries in Kings Cross a few weeks ago. I wrote some stuff about Tumblr for the program notes, which is now up on Spike too (a little out of context. Still works, right?)
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SWF Erotic Fan Fiction, 2011
This went phenomenally well. Everyone was so nice! And so awesome. It was only mildly terrorising to have been the only one of the five of us who wasn’t a professional actor, but still, so much fun! Story after the jump.
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The girl sat at the bar, eyeing the men in the room, in much the same way that a man might eye a room full of shiny, enormous barbecues he was fantasising about...
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Sydney Writers' Festival: Erotic Fan Fiction
Well this is terrifying. I’ve been added to this bill. No need to book, it’s free, free, free! Though it does tend to attract a few hundred people. So, great. See you then!
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HUNGRY BEAST: Shopping Mall Design
A story Marc and I wrote about shopping mall design and the forces at work on you while you consume.
April 2011
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All The Best: Late Night Library Reading
I’ll be reading an essay on American Psycho from the forth-coming issue of Meanjin at this event, next Thursday, May 5. Bookings call 8374 6230. The piece grew out of this and this, and is not funny. So, there’s that. Still, a library! At night time!
Yay, see you there!
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Music Writing, Emerging Writers' Festival
I’ll be hosting this panel in Melbourne at the Tote Hotel, June 2, with Barry Divola, Peggy Frew, David Nichols and Amy Spiers. Tickets available now (only $12!). Email me if there’s anything you’d like to see added to the discussion.
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WatchSources:
Apple’s ‘Think Different’ advertising campaign. Apple surpasses Microsoft^ as the world’s number one tech company. I’m a Mac. 10 workers commit suicide at Foxconn hardware contractors in China. After an Apple enquiry, Foxconn introduces counseling, cuts worker’s weeks to 60 hours, and strings nets to catch suicide attempts. 137 Wintek (contractor) workers get sick as a result of working...
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March 2011
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HUNGRY BEAST: The New Privacy
Welcome to the New Privacy.
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It came as a less of a surprise than I imagined it would this past weekend, when I ran into my teenage self at the Stone Temple Pilots’ show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.