slackbastard- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #206 w Dr Stephanie Wescott on Andrew Tate & misogyny in the classroom : May 9, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #205 w Jordana Silverstein on history, Palestine, Zionism & more : May 2, 2024
- May Day in Melbourne : 2024
- antifa notes (april 24, 2024) : right-wing extremism and inquiring minds
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #204 w Fran Amery on ‘organised transphobia’ : April 25, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #203 w Alex Hanna on AI hype, surveillance, war & work : April 18, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #202 w Tyler West on Southern Africa in the political imagination of New Zealand’s radical right : April 4, 2024
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024
- #LetWomenSpeak (2023) ~vs~ #WomenWillSpeak (2024) in Naarm/Melbourne
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #200 w Andy Fleming & Cam Smith : March 21, 2024
- Plashing Vole
Monthly Archives: January 2012
I know I had it coming, I know I can’t be free
A number of things came together for me today: Johnny Cash, John Berger, and my figurings last week on agency. The precise shape of their coagulation isn’t clear to me yet but I’ll explain: firstly the tiny Rustichellos and I … Continue reading
what you fear the most could meet you halfway
There’s a conversation that I find myself having with myself in all sorts of odd places (in a corridor, in the breakfast cereal bit of the supermarket, on the toilet, on the bench press, in the bus queue) about what … Continue reading
Posted in domesticity, The F-Bunker, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Agency, Capitalism, choices, David Foster Wallace, Family, Fatherhood, Freedom, Hope, Love, Michel de Certeau, work life balance
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Vale Moon Cottage
On the Budawang Sketch Map, on the far bottom left hand side, is a little brook flowing westward from the Currockbilly Ridge called Nettleton’s Creek. The creek flows under and over the Mongarlowe Road and through a little propery that … Continue reading
more fun than lichen
About twenty years ago, sigh, I was kissing this girl in a pool on a hot summer night in the country and the twilight was hovering, and she says to me “you’d be a great guy if you’d lighten up.” … Continue reading
Posted in domesticity, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged anarchism, choices, Family, Fatherhood, Freedom, Hope, hot summer night, lichen, Love, Middle Age, positive thinking, Sex, work life balance
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David Greason 1961-2011
I was shocked today to read that David Greason had died while I was in Nepal. I knew he had cancer from the article he wrote about Kylie Minogue’s brush with death in 2005 but I figured he must have … Continue reading
Reading Bolano’s 2666
As I wandered (not lonely as a cloud) through Nepal one of the heaviest luxuries in my kitbag was a copy of Roberto Bolano’s 2666. I read it through, and then I read quite a bit of it again since … Continue reading
secret handshakes and hateful bile
I have been reading with interest the fall out from the Marieke Hardy defamation case, and I reckon slackbastard is on the money in his post Moaron Defamation when he describes the hatefulness at work as being damn near pathological. … Continue reading
Posted in things belonging to the emperor
Tagged Cameron Williams, Marieke Hardy, misogyny, Nine Network, slackbastard
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Rustichello's Folly 