Bay 13 Break-out

We went to the cricket on Friday night and watched Ricky lead the Australian cricket time to another decisive win over the West Indies, the final in the one-day series. All the top order batsmen made a respectable total (Shane Watson was on fire), setting the West Indies a target of over 320 runs. We [...]

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Hair

I went to the Melbourne International film festival last night and saw a great – uh – “documentary” called The Yes Men Save the World. These two guys give seminars to important CEOs that take the neo-liberal philosophy behind the free market economy to a wholly new level. Brilliant film. S, A and I were [...]

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Cool Change

Slice an opening at the top, then gently pull the halves apart with your hands. A line from a letter by a former lover, my pen pal, a fellow student of Foucault. Attached to a gift, a pair of pomegranates, sent to me in the mail from Anglesea. These bold letters are instructions for opening [...]

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I Wish I Was Ocean-sized

I have returned to Melbourne after six weeks spent in the sun, sand, surf and dust. I have travelled thousands of kilometres by rail, road and air and swam in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. I am utterly exhausted but it’s a good exhaustion like one gets from working out muscles one is unused to [...]

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Read Water Read

Ray’s father, Donnie, passed away in a hospital on the Gold Coast on Wednesday, finally crossing the river Styx after a four week extension of life with one kidney operating at less than five per cent, major organ failure, cirrhosis of the liver, and diarrhoea constant until the doctors pumped seven litres of fluid from [...]

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